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            <title><![CDATA[Rick Hertzberg's Victory Dance]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With Ob&aacute;manos, his exuberant new collection chronicling the rise of the president, The New Yorker's witty political sage celebrates the good guys finally winning.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sarah Palin's Lost Speeches]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Daily Beast has obtained the speeches Sarah Palin planned to deliver on Election Night 2008-win or lose. Read the words the McCain camp didn't want her to say.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA["Bittergate"]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In an exclusive excerpt from David Plouffe's memoir, The Audacity to Win, the Obama campaign aide recounts how his team handled the candidate's infamous comments about guns and religion-and how Obama took the blame.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Foer's Call to Arms]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer talks to Jane Ciabattari about his new nonfiction book, the horrors of factory farming, deciding what to feed his son, and why killing animals is just wrong.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scaling the Berlin Wall]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaches, journalist Michael Meyer looks back at the years he spent astride it. An exclusive excerpt from The Year the World Changed.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[2009's Bestselling Celebrity Books]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From Bill O'Reilly to Bob Barker, the year's 15 bestselling memoirs of movie stars, TV personalities, and the rich and famous. Rankings provided by Nielsen BookScan.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[America's Pop Culture Savant]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Taylor Antrim on why Chuck Klosterman's latest book, Eating the Dinosaur, shows him as pop-culture obsessed as always and wonders if his shtick still works.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dr. Mengele's Twins]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In an excerpt from her new book, One and the Same, Abigail Pogrebin talks to twin sisters who survived the Nazi doctor's monstrous experiments at Auschwitz.
"If not for her, I wouldn't be here."
Helen Rapaport declares this in a heavy Yiddish accent,...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Abigail Pogrebin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:24:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Moving In With Mom, Dad and God]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ In her uproarious memoir, Rhoda Janzen recounts moving back in with her conservative Mennonite parents, and getting reacquainted with borscht, public prayer, and being set up with her cousins. 
In her early 40s, Rhoda Janzen hit what can be...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Marisa Meltzer]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:59:42 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[John Grisham's Debut Short Story]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Read an exclusive excerpt from John Grisham's debut collection, Ford County, a heartbreaking tale of one family's visit to death row.
Fetching Raymond
Mr. McBride ran his upholstery shop in the old icehouse on Lee Street, a few blocks off the square...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Grisham]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:02:50 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Anne Rice's Favorite Reads]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In time for Halloween, bestselling novelist Anne Rice shares with The Daily Beast her favorite books.  Her new novel, Angel Time, is out this week. 
 Click Image Below to View Our Gallery
Plus: Check out Book Beast for more news on hot titles and...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Anne Rice]]></author>
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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: Maggie Thatcher's concerns over German reunification and diplomatic etiquette for the digital age.
Thatcher's German Worries 
Margaret Thatcher has already admitted...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Peter Stothard]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ghostbusters Is Real!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Seriously. Just ask Dan Aykroyd and his father, Peter, whose real-life family history with the supernatural inspired Ghostbusters. The two talk to Benjamin Sarlin about the science behind the paranormal.
Peter Aykroyd, father of the famed comic actor...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Benjamin  Sarlin]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stephen King's First Comic Book]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Stephen King is finally taking the plunge into comics with American Vampire. Its creator, Scott Snyder, speaks with The Daily Beast about the high-profile guest writer.
After more than three decades spent writing across a variety of mediums, it's hard...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Shannon Donnelly]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:28:51 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[America's Dark Side]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Mark Danner's new book, Stripping Bare the Body, is damning in its assessment of American foreign policy failures in Haiti, Bosnia, and now Iraq, says Chris Lehmann.
It's all too easy to think of the unmourned Bush era as an aberration-an unsteady...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Chris Lehmann]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Making of M*A*S*H]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In an excerpt from Mitchell Zuckoff's new biography, Robert Altman, crazy tales from the set, Elliott Gould's tantrum, and how the director's son made more money than him.
John Schuck: From the minute we started, he was creating this world of insanity...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Mitchell Zuckoff]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Eleanor's Advice to Michelle]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  The biographer of America's most famous first lady, Julie Fenster, scours Mrs. Roosevelt's diaries for advice to Michelle. First lesson: how to survive the criticisms.
Dolley Madison saved the White House and Edith Wilson took control of it, but...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Julie Fenster]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:59:13 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[An Ode to Shaggy Men]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[British comedienne Lucy Porter has penned a sweet tribute to hirsute men in her new book, Hairy Hunks. She speaks with Marisa Meltzer about 'staches, beards, and her crush on Stalin.
Was your first crush on Luke Perry from Beverly Hills, 90210-just...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Marisa Meltzer]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:05:11 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Real Bailout Hero]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The battle to prevent a full-blown economic meltdown produced an unlikely savior, Tim Geithner, according to a new account. Andrew Ross Sorkin talks about his new book, and the behind-the-scenes scramble to save Wall Street.
Among the gems that emerge...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Allan Dodds Frank]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:26:04 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Vidal Kicks Up Dust Again]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Trouble was on the agenda when the aging provocateur, infamous for his tough remarks on Israel, visited a Jewish cultural hub last night. But as Lloyd Grove reports, Vidal charmed the critics.
There were moments at the 92nd Street Y Tuesday night when...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Lloyd Grove]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:06:02 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is This the Device That Will Revolutionize Reading?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Barnes and Noble unveiled its e-book reader, the Nook, but despite modern bells and whistles, it's one of the most low-technology concepts that may challenge the primacy of the mighty Kindle.
Barnes & Noble may have found the perfect angle...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nicholas  Ciarelli]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:15:13 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Supply-Side Pariah Returns]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Conservatives deride Bruce Bartlett, a supply-side economics inventor, as a Keynesian for criticizing their devotion to tax cuts. But circumstances, not his views, have changed, he says-and Republicans should take note. 
Three and a half years ago, I...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Bruce Bartlett]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:02:15 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Endangered Sandwiches List]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  One of America's ethnic culinary treasures, the Jewish deli, is fighting for survival. Samuel P. Jacobs on some new efforts to preserve pastrami and matzoh ball soup for future noshers.
Have delis, purveyors of foods preserved and pickled to last,...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Samuel P. Jacobs]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:27:19 -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 book on C.S. Lewis' planetary inspiration, artists' self-portraits, and Trotsky's revolutionary life. 
Planet Narnia 
"Our age is dominated by Saturn, and it is time...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Peter Stothard]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:15:37 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Who's Afraid of Liz Taylor?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In an exclusive excerpt from How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood, William J. Mann reports on her vodka-fueled battles with Richard Burton and the role she was born to play. Plus, view our gallery.
The day before shooting began on...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[William J. Mann]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:50:23 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Patricia Cornwell's Latest Mystery]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[How did the acclaimed crime novelist lose $40 million? She's suing her accountants and business advisers to find out.
Murder victims have met grisly ends for less obvious reasons in Patricia Cornwell's bestselling Kay Scarpetta novels.
But-after...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Lloyd Grove]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:28:37 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Escape from Hungary]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Michael Korda is moved by Kati Marton's powerful memoir, Enemies of the People, about her parents' struggles under fascism and communism, their hidden Jewish identity, and Eastern Europe's weighty history. 
At a moment when many historians are trying...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Michael Korda]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:46:50 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stoned in Manhattan]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Jane Ciabattari talks with Jonathan Lethem about his new novel, Chronic City, the allure of Manhattan, and his knowledge of pot smoking. 
I first saw Jonathan Lethem in January 2005, as he stood in near darkness on the balcony at a bookstore in New...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Jane Ciabattari]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:32:52 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Behind Ken Lewis' Panic]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ In an exclusive excerpt of The Sellout, Charlie Gasparino reveals the inside story of how Paulson and Bernanke forced BofA to buy Merrill Lynch and prevented another meltdown.
With so much to worry about after Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy and the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:40:36 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Saudi Kingdom's 9/11]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[An excerpt from Robert Lacey's new book, Inside the Kingdom, about the day al Qaeda struck Saudi Arabia and how the bold reformist king is fighting back.
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            <description><![CDATA[David Duchovny, star of Californication, on his literary ambitions, making a third X-Files movie, and his quest for an "uncensored id."
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            <description><![CDATA[  Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Bright-Sided, talks with Megan Hustad about our optimism obsession and what it has to do with the mortgage crisis, the media, and Joel Osteen's parking spot.
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            <description><![CDATA[ Kinky Friedman speaks with Marty Beckerman about why he's running for Texas governor as a Democrat, the blood on Rick Perry's hands, and the similarities between himself and Gandhi. 
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            <description><![CDATA[Creators of the animated series and Fox lawyers did everything they could to stop John Ortved's unauthorized history. The inside story of why he wrote it anyway.
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            <author><![CDATA[John Ortved]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Keynes Is King]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Keynes biographer Robert Skidelsky explains why, after decades of being ignored, the economist is back-and why we ought to keep his warnings in mind, even as the economy restarts.
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            <author><![CDATA[Robert Skidelsky]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cocaine Cowboys]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In an excerpt from Miami Babylon, Gerald Posner recalls 1980s South Beach, when it was a Wild West of drug cartels and sex parties that made Scarface look tame. Plus, view our gallery of Miami vices.
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            <author><![CDATA[Gerald Posner]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lethem's Favorite Icy Novels]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Jonathan Lethem, whose new book, Chronic City, is out this week, shares five icy novels that are perfect for a warming globe.
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            <author><![CDATA[Jonathan Lethem]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[ Pandemic of Fear]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The hysteria over the swine-flu vaccine-and not just the virus itself-is a public-health disaster and the latest example of America's irrational thinking, says Michael Specter.]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Michael Specter]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mountain Man]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[John Marshall talks to Ed Viesturs, the first American to reach the summit of all 14 of the world's highest peaks, about how he nearly died on K2 and his advice to other climbers.]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Douglas Marshall]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Philip Roth Unbound]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The author is at the height of his powers in his latest novel, The Humbling. In a rare video interview, he sits down with Tina Brown at The Beast Bar to talk about writing, mortality, and why he thinks the novel is a dying form.]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Tina Brown]]></author>
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            <description><![CDATA[A slasher-flick screenwriter and Bram Stoker's great-grand nephew have written the first "official" Dracula novel since the 1897 original. Matthew Shaer on the pair resurrecting the Count.]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Matthew Shaer]]></author>
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