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	<description>by Thomas R. Hummel</description>
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		<title>Eric Hoffer Prize &#8212; Winner in the Art Book category!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 13:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just learned the terrific news last night that A Journey Through Literary America has won the Eric Hoffer Award in the category of Art Book.
From the award notice for the art category: Titles in this category capture the experience, execution, or demonstration of the arts, including art, fine art, graphic art, architecture, design, photography, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Bookshops in the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here for the Guardian UK&#8217;s list of the best bookshops in the world. These were chosen mostly for their architectural magnificence, it seems, and do, of course, exhibit  British perspective. But if they aren&#8217;t enough to make a book lover slaver, I don&#8217;t know what is.
If you are ever in the Portland, Oregon area [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, John Steinbeck</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Steinbeck was born 108 years ago today in Salinas, California, the “Salad Bowl of the World.” His family lived in a Victorian house that still stands on one of Salinas’s main streets. It is a restaurant now. And down the street just a couple of blocks sits the National Steinbeck Center, at the head [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ForeWord Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[E. Annie Proulx]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Is Your Playground
by Matt Sutherland
Travel, a sense of place, and writers are old friends, and Thomas R. Hummel has written a book that showcases that relationship.  In his wonderfully written and packaged project, A Journey Through Literary America (Val de Grace Books, 978-0-9817425-1-9), Hummel chases down the physical landscapes that inspired twenty-six [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photographer&#8217;s Forum Magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a reader, and you&#8217;re tuned into the sense of place that is critical to the work of many great writers, this handsome book is for you. The photographs capture the essence of the places that inspired 26 American writers, from Thoreau to Steinbeck to Faulkner to Proulx to Dove. The text is readable, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belated Happy Birthdays: Wallace Stegner and Toni Morrison</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case anyone was paying attention, I wasn’t…
I missed Wednesday, February 17ths doubleheader: the birthdays of Wallace Stegner and Toni Morrison. To miss the birthday of either one is bad. To miss both is deplorable.
My apologies to both.
The first &#34;bench by the road&#34;
Toni Morrison’s hometown of Lorain, Ohio is covered in A Journey Through Literary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diary that influenced Faulkner is unearthed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A clue to the fashioning of Yoknapatawpha County: The New York Times ran a story Wednesday about a diary belonging to some Mississippi slaveholders that appears to have heavily influenced Faulkner. He was fascinated by his contents and apparently took lots of notes. Much of the details in the diaries wound up, in one form [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ernest Hemingway&#8217;s Doings in February</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 9th is the date that Ernest Hemingway ended his contract with Boni and Liverwright&#8211;one of the most influential publishers of the early part of the 20th century, publishing work by Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, Dorothy Parker, John Steinbeck and others. Horace Liverwright also formed the Modern Library in 1917. The company had a sad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday Sinclair Lewis!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sinclair Lewis in a room he rented for his writing
On February 7, 2010 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, it is 18 degrees but  “feels like 8 degrees” according to Weather.com. This is not so different from this day 125 years ago when Sinclair Lewis was born. It was bitter cold in that day in Sauk Centre [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate Black History Month &#8211; Langston Hughes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brownstones - Artist: Jacob Lawrence (Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries)  
I have been remiss. Yesterday (February 1) was the birthday of Langston Hughes and the kickoff to Black History Month. Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, at the beginning of he last century. He lived briefly in Mexico with his father, whom he disliked [...]]]></description>
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