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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~r/ALifeIn/~4/232289429" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.newsweek.com/id/109670?from=rss</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:02:48 GMT</pubDate><category>Books</category><category>John Sullivan</category><feedburner:origLink>http://www.newsweek.com/id/109670?from=rss</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Books: Ann Patchett</title><link>http://feeds.newsweek.com/~r/ALifeIn/~3/232289430/109604</link><description>Patchett landed on the best-seller list with her 2001 novel "Bel Canto," a PEN/Faulkner Award winner about a hostage crisis in South America that has sold more than 1 million copies. Her most recent work is "," the story of a fictional mixed-race Boston family. Her list:
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&lt;a href="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?a=tH3CwqF"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?i=tH3CwqF" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?a=8uPcs8F"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?i=8uPcs8F" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?a=6DJkKuF"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?i=6DJkKuF" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~r/ALifeIn/~4/232289430" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.newsweek.com/id/109604?from=rss</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:45:42 GMT</pubDate><category>Books</category><category>Henry James</category><category>William Maxwell</category><category>Boston</category><category>South America</category><category>Halldor Laxness</category><category>Henry Green</category><category>Nathanael West</category><category>Iceland</category><media:title>Ann Patchett</media:title><media:thumbnail url="http://ndn.newsweek.com/media/33/080209_LifeinBooks_hsmall-thumb7.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpg" url="http://ndn.newsweek.com/media/33/080209_LifeinBooks_hsmall.jpg" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.newsweek.com/id/109604?from=rss</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Movies: Peter Bogdanovich</title><link>http://feeds.newsweek.com/~r/ALifeIn/~3/229976778/107598</link><description>A multitalented cinephile, Bogdanovich (above, with Barbra Streisand) is best-known for his 1971 classic "The Last Picture Show" and, more recently, for his role as Dr. Elliot Kupferberg on "The Sopranos." His latest film is "Runnin' Down a Dream," a four-hour documentary about Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. His list:
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&lt;a href="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?a=ZBJfmTF"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?i=ZBJfmTF" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?a=WyV7pkF"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?i=WyV7pkF" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?a=GHwIzsF"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?i=GHwIzsF" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~r/ALifeIn/~4/229976778" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.newsweek.com/id/107598?from=rss</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:47:28 GMT</pubDate><category>Entertainment: Movies</category><category>Barbra Streisand</category><category>Elliot Kupferberg</category><category>The Sopranos</category><category>Tom Petty &amp; The Heartbreakers</category><category>John Ford</category><category>Howard Hawks</category><category>Ernst Lubitsch</category><category>Jean Renoir</category><category>Charles Foster Kane</category><category>Orson Welles</category><feedburner:origLink>http://www.newsweek.com/id/107598?from=rss</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A Life in Books: Ha Jin</title><link>http://feeds.newsweek.com/~r/ALifeIn/~3/226834908/105579</link><description>My Five Most Important Books1. "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy. It helped me structure my novel "Waiting," opening it to both the city and the countryside.
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&lt;a href="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?a=PqjiYoF"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?i=PqjiYoF" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?a=RcA4S3F"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?i=RcA4S3F" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?a=qivrbgF"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?i=qivrbgF" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~r/ALifeIn/~4/226834908" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.newsweek.com/id/105579?from=rss</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:07:01 GMT</pubDate><category>Books</category><category>Vladimir Nabokov</category><category>Anna Karenina</category><category>Leo Tolstoy</category><feedburner:origLink>http://www.newsweek.com/id/105579?from=rss</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A Life In...Books: David Rakoff</title><link>http://feeds.newsweek.com/~r/ALifeIn/~3/226834909/96391</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~a/ALifeIn?a=WAiJen"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~a/ALifeIn?i=WAiJen" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?a=eUqGdQF"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?i=eUqGdQF" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?a=aRIDC5F"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?i=aRIDC5F" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?a=GzNb8DF"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?i=GzNb8DF" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~r/ALifeIn/~4/226834909" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.newsweek.com/id/96391?from=rss</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:38:34 GMT</pubDate><category>Books</category><category>Edith Wharton</category><category>Kingsley Amis</category><category>Charles Dickens</category><category>Luc Sante</category><category>Sei Shonagon</category><category>Joan Didion</category><category>New York City</category><category>Japan</category><feedburner:origLink>http://www.newsweek.com/id/96391?from=rss</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Excerpt: ‘Love It or Leave It’</title><link>http://feeds.newsweek.com/~r/ALifeIn/~3/226834910/96430</link><description>A book excerpt by David Rakoff.
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&lt;a href="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?a=Z3qHpKF"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?i=Z3qHpKF" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?a=5pfczSF"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?i=5pfczSF" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?a=msGLvNF"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?i=msGLvNF" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?a=SWaW2QF"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?i=SWaW2QF" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?a=88ORTrF"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?i=88ORTrF" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?a=uCcdCJF"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~f/ALifeIn?i=uCcdCJF" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.newsweek.com/~r/ALifeIn/~4/226834911" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.newsweek.com/id/91684?from=rss</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:31:09 GMT</pubDate><category>Books</category><category>P.D. Eastman</category><category>Laurence Sterne</category><category>The Library of Congress</category><category>David Copperfield</category><category>Robert Benchley</category><category>Thomas Pynchon</category><feedburner:origLink>http://www.newsweek.com/id/91684?from=rss</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Excerpt: ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’</title><link>http://feeds.newsweek.com/~r/ALifeIn/~3/226834912/84429</link><description>A book excerpt by Khaled Hosseini.
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