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		<title>Make the language just right</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Franzen&#8217;s homily on the trouble with ebooks and the superiority of print has zapped its way around the world from the Hay Festival in Cartagena, Colombia (the Telegraph&#8217;s showbusiness editor has the full story): Someone worked really hard to make the language just right, just the way they wanted it. They were so sure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Trade</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Soar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two new book proofs have arrived in the office: And: Both are to be published by Faber early next year. One is a history book, the other a novel. Guess which is which.]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s alive!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apocalypses aren&#8217;t what they used to be. Thirty years ago, science fiction stories about sentient computers taking over the world tended to imagine them trying to wipe us all out using nuclear bombs (The Terminator, War Games). These days, if Robert Harris&#8217;s new novel, The Fear Index, is anything to go by, the rogue AI&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billy the Bookcase: A Cautionary Tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Diski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doom and gloom doubled last week when the Economist announced not just the death of books, but proved it by the death of bookcases. In particular Billy, a classic IKEA item of furniture that has been available for thirty years, has five adjustable shelves, is cheap enough for students to give up the brick and plank solution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;These really stink!&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The LRB recently sent me Cita Stelzer’s Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table to review. It’s a good subject. We know that Churchill believed in personal diplomacy (he thought he could charm the most obdurate dictator if he could only meet him face-to-face); that he did a lot of negotiating over meals; and [...]]]></description>
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