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            <title><![CDATA[Andrew Young's Revenge]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Say this for John Edwards and Andrew Young, the author of a chilling new memoir: they deserved each other.
Just when we are all feeling depressed about the malaise of the body politic, along comes a book designed to make us feel worse.
Andrew Young's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Tina Brown]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:56:27 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Atheism's Soulful Philosopher]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Rebecca Goldstein's new novel aims to bridge the divide between believers and non-believers. She spoke to John Douglas Marshall about wrestling with God in fiction and her romance with Steven Pinker. 
The novel's title is too long, too lofty, and...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Douglas Marshall]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wole Soyinka's British Problem]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As religious violence deepens in his home country, Nobel laureate and Nigerian political activist Wole Soyinka shares his unbridled thoughts on Islamic terrorism and why England is a "cesspit" with The Daily Beast's Tunku Varadarajan.
Seated under the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Tunku Varadarajan]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:41:46 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Give Up on Mr. Perfect?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In her provocative new book, Lori Gottlieb says women should just settle and give up trying to find the right man. Liesl Schillinger defends single women. 
Let me tell you about the women I know who are unmarried in their 30s and 40s. One's a...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Liesl Schillinger]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:45:23 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Do I Have to Read Committed?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Daily Beast's William Boot reviews  bestsellers to see which, if any, are readable. This week: Elizabeth Gilbert's Committed.
Book: Committed Author: Elizabeth Gilbert Pages: 279&nbsp; Readable Pages: 44 Sample line: "Darling, our lives are about...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[William  Boot]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:38:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Salinger's Final Mystery]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Novelist Nathaniel Rich mourns the loss of a literary hero-and fantasizes about the books that Salinger was possibly writing all of these years.
It is a peculiar, half-hearted thing to mourn the death of an author who has been dead to the world for...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nathaniel Rich]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:54:19 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Then We Came to Book Two]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Like his protagonist in The Unnamed, Joshua Ferris just can't stand still. He talks about his inventive new book with David Goodwillie.
In May of 2008, The New York Observer's Choire Sicha penned an emasculating critique of America's most celebrated...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[David Goodwillie]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:36:07 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sam Shepard Rides Again]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The iconic actor and writer is in the midst of a cultural moment with a new play opening, another one in revival, and a book of fiction set in the American West just out. Caryn James on why Shepard is as fresh and bold as ever. 
Once a cowboy always a...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Caryn James]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:39:47 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Best of Brit Lit]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A look at great reads from the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. This week: Peter Carey's American picaresque take on Tocqueville, a celebration of 200th anniversary of Tennyson's birth, and a new collection from pop chronicler Gordon Burns.
...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Peter Stothard]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:13:18 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Heirs to Holden Caulfield]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[J.D. Salinger may be gone, but his iconic character lives on in countless fictional antiheroes of literature, movies, and television. VIEW OUR GALLERY
View Our Gallery of the Heirs of Holden Caulfield

For more of The Daily Beast, become a fan on...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:33:30 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pakistan's Fictional Peace]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Ali Sethi wrote a book about troubled Lahore-four years ago, when the city was stable and prosperous. Now that it's published, he's embroiled in a political debate he didn't ask for. 
There's nothing harder to write about, goes the old adage, than...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Olivia Cole]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:04:57 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[8 John Edwards Secrets]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The Daily Beast tracks the best parts of Andrew Young's tell-all book about John Edwards, The Politician, and his 20/20 appearance.
Couple Time
When Elizabeth was out of town making appearances for her book, Edwards and Hunter acted every bit the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:23:59 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ozzy vs. The Wizard of Oz]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Can you tell the difference between the Prince of Darkness' new memoir, I Am Ozzy, and the beloved L. Frank Baum classic? Click your heels together and take our quiz.
1. A) "My father always said I would do something big one day...." B) "But my father...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:33:41 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Bad Ideas Epidemic]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After a year in office, Obama still hasn't moved America beyond dead ideas on health care, financial markets, and taxes. Matt Miller on the need for new thinking. 
As Barack Obama marks his first anniversary in office, America confronts a harsh truth:...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Matt Miller]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:48:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Diary of a Not-So-Secret Call Girl]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Billie Piper, the star of Showtime's steamy comedy Secret Diary of a Call Girl, talks about the third season of the sexy show and meeting the real-life diarist behind the series.
Showtime's answer to Sex and the City is the British-accented comedy...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Jace Lacob]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:02:45 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Geoff in Jaipur]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Journalist and novelist Geoff Dyer's latest work on Venice and Varanasi has won him acclaim. Olivia Cole caught up with him at the Jaipur Literature Festival to talk the Biennale and exotic India.
The Daily Beast ran into Geoff Dyer en route to Jaipur...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Olivia Cole]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:22:10 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Some Memoirs Are Better As Fiction]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Two new memoirs raise a perennial problem-sometimes fiction is truer and more powerful than any memoir. Taylor Antrim wonders if they wouldn't just be better as novels.
The Great Age of Memoir continues apace. Happy by Alex Lemon and The Ticking Is...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Taylor Antrim]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:01:33 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[India's Literary Magic]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Niall Ferguson, Stephen Frears, and Wole Soyinka kick off the fifth annual Jaipur Literature Festival today. Olivia Cole reports from Asia's premier books event.
For over a hundred years, Jaipur, the so-called "Pink City," was famously gray. It was...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Olivia Cole]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:27:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Karzai Is a Survivor]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Monday's attacks in Kabul showed again how the Afghan president is barely holding on to power. Gerald Posner on a new book's untold story of how Karzai gambled to liberate his country by teaming up with the Green Berets.
On Monday, just before 10...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Gerald Posner]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:43:27 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why We're Not Getting Married]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ For the under-40 set, marriage just seems unnecessary and constricting. Hannah Seligson on why her generation isn't ready to tie the knot.
My grandparents went on five dates over the course of 10 months before my grandfather proposed. They were...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Hannah Seligson]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:37:42 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Do I Have to Read The Help?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-16/do-i-have-to-read-the-help/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Daily Beast's William Boot reviews bestseller novels to see which, if any, are readable.  This week: Kathryn Stockett's The Help.
Book: The Help Author: Kathryn Stockett Pages: 451 Readable Pages: All of them Sample line: "No one ever asked Mammy...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[William  Boot]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:38:58 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Alcoholics Anonymous Gets It Wrong]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Most experts say you can't change the people you love who are addicts, but Brad Lamm's controversial book says intervention is the key. Benoit Denizet-Lewis knows from experience. 
Last month, my boyfriend spotted Brad Lamm's book, How to Change...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Benoit Denizet-Lewis]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:31:46 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Speed Read: The Best Books on Haiti]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With everyone's eyes on Haiti after the massive earthquake, The Daily Beast and our contributors recommend books, a documentary, and music that will help readers understand the besieged country.
With all of the world's eyes turned on Haiti after the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:40:18 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Boards Are Destroying Corporations]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The foundering Kraft buyout of Cadbury is the latest example of how corporate boards are costing us trillions. David Zweig and John Gillespie on how shareholders need to get tough. 
When companies award billions of shareholder dollars to bailed-out...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[David Zweig]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:41:52 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Elizabeth Kostova's Favorite Books]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Bestselling author of The Historian shares with The Daily Beast her four essential books always at her elbow. Her new novel, The Swan Thieves, is out now.
I am, I'll admit it, a Very Old-Fashioned Reader, and although I read many contemporary novels...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Elizabeth Kostova]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:18:34 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[John McCain or Jersey Shore?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[According to the new political bestseller Game Change, John McCain drops enough F-bombs to fit right in on the hit MTV reality show Jersey Shore. Can you tell the difference between Big Mac and America's favorite tanned and toned Italian-American...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:19:42 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[More Juicy Election Details]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ We've all heard about John Edwards and Harry Reid, but what about John and Cindy McCain, Mitt Romney, and Joe Biden? The Daily Beast speed reads John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's Game Change.
Published today, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's Game...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:00:31 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Best of Brit Lit]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A look at great reads from the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. This week: a new look at how the English have loved and married over the centuries, a sweeping survey of the Great Depression's cultural landmarks, and the final years of Orwell's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Peter Stothard]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:43:41 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Harvard Psychedelic Club]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In 1960, Timothy Leary set up an infamous institute at Harvard to experiment with psychedelic drugs. An exclusive excerpt from Don Lattin's new book on how lifestyle guru Andrew Weil and other freshmen started tripping.
Andy Weil and Ronnie Winston...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Don Lattin]]></author>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Readers can't seem to get enough of their favorite Victorian heroine. Jane Ciabattari talks vampires and sex with the latest novelist to dive into the world of the Bront&euml;s.
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