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	<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A brief guide to this year&#8217;s winner of the Nobel Prize for literature</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/page-turner/2009/10/12/a-brief-guide-to-this-years-winner-of-the-nobel-prize-for-literature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soumya Bhattacharya</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Doris Lessing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Herta Müller]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[JM coetzee]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Romanian-born German novelist Herta Müller]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it was announced that Romanian-born German novelist Herta Müller had won the Nobel Prize for literature this year, I had two immediate reactions: a) the by-now-annual stab of resentment that the blokes in Stockholm have – again – not given Philip Roth the nod; and b) oh, dear, I am such an ignorant git, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classics reclassified</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/page-turner/2009/10/05/classics-reclassified/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soumya Bhattacharya</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Guardian’s books blog]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[literary parlour game]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mahabharata]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/page-turner/?p=156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the Guardian’s books blog,  I came across this enjoyable literary parlour game. With the marketing side of publishing being what it is, the game asks you to come up with your own titles/subtitles that might tease, tempt, and force many many readers into buying the book and turning it into a bestseller. For example, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obsession, and a portrait of the artist as a middle-aged man</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/page-turner/2009/09/28/obsession-and-a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-middle-aged-man/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/page-turner/2009/09/28/obsession-and-a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-middle-aged-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soumya Bhattacharya</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[A Long Way Down]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[High Fidelity]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hindustan times]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Juliet]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Naked]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[news]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nick Hornby]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tucker Crowe]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/page-turner/?p=154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Four years after A Long Way Down, his droll, affecting novel about four would-be suicides, Nick Hornby is back. In Juliet, Naked, his new novel, Hornby returns to the territory his long-time fans will instantly recognize: obsession, fandom and popular music, the tropes that made his first two books, Fever Pitch and High Fidelity into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The shortlist is here. Who will go the distance?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/page-turner/2009/09/14/the-shortlist-is-here-who-will-go-the-distance/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/page-turner/2009/09/14/the-shortlist-is-here-who-will-go-the-distance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soumya Bhattacharya</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Coetzee]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Colm Toibin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[English-speaking books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hilary Mantel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[JM coetzee]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Man Booker Prize 2009]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Simon Mawer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/page-turner/?p=152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So here we are with the most hotly debated annual shortlist in the English-speaking books world – the final six books vying for the Man Booker Prize 2009.
What has it boiled down to?
Summerland by JM Coetzee
The Children’s Book by AS Byatt
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Irish masters vying for this year’s Man Booker Prize</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/page-turner/2009/09/07/two-irish-masters-vying-for-this-year%e2%80%99s-man-booker-prize/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/page-turner/2009/09/07/two-irish-masters-vying-for-this-year%e2%80%99s-man-booker-prize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soumya Bhattacharya</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Colm Toibin and William Trevor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Irish literature]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Love and Summer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Man Booker Prize]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[novels]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/page-turner/?p=150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What does the Man Booker Prize mean for established, perhaps even great writers, who have not become huge mainstream successes? Alan Hollinghurst, who famously takes many years to write a book, said it buys time to write. 
More than that, though, I suppose it means a far wider readership than before. The Man Booker is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When writers recommend writers</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/page-turner/2009/08/31/when-writers-recommend-writers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soumya Bhattacharya</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[author]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[blurb(s)]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[books-related tweets]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Not Untrue and Not Unkind]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[reader]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, someone on this blog posted a comment about how he found blurbs from authors on the front and back covers of books to be most useful recommendations. From what he said, it seemed to me that he was the sort of reader who would actually pick up a book because of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roth vs Updike. No, no, it’s Roth and Updike…</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/page-turner/2009/08/24/roth-vs-updike-no-no-it%e2%80%99s-roth-and-updike%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soumya Bhattacharya</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Page Turner]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[American novelist]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[American Pastoral]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[euphonic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[John Updike]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[literary heroes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Roth]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sabbath’s Theatre]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[transcendental]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Roth or Updike, Updike or Roth… I have never been able to make up my mind about whom, between the two titans, I admire more.
I have always been torn between these two heroes of mine, and I have been thinking about the matter again after having reviewed John Updike’s posthumously published collection, My Father’s Tears [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anniversary special</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/page-turner/2009/08/10/anniversary-special/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/page-turner/2009/08/10/anniversary-special/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soumya Bhattacharya</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Page Turner]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[75th anniversaryAndrew O’Hagan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Faber &amp; Faber]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Guardian books blog]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sam Jordison]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Faber &#38; Faber, the legendary London-based publishing house, is celebrating its 80th anniversary. I wrote about it last Saturday, but a blog lets you do what print can’t, so I shall use that advantage now to put up links to some excellent pieces on Faber, and its anniversary.

Here is Andrew O’Hagan on Faber’s 75th. This is Sam Jordison [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words YOU love to hate</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/page-turner/2009/08/03/words-you-love-to-hate/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/page-turner/2009/08/03/words-you-love-to-hate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soumya Bhattacharya</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Man Booker Prize]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[words you love to hate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/page-turner/?p=134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I put up a (brief) list of words I love to hate, and invited you to send in yours. The response has been very enthusiastic, thank you very much. Not a man to go back on my word, I am putting up the list of words/phrases you said made you wince/cringe.
Revert back
Paradigm
Praxis
Geographies
Mortality audit
Huge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which words do you love to hate?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/page-turner/2009/07/27/which-words-do-you-love-to-hate/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/page-turner/2009/07/27/which-words-do-you-love-to-hate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soumya Bhattacharya</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Guardian]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Pulchritude]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian’s books blog has reported how some poets at a recent literary festival were asked which word each of them hated and why.
 
Here is what the poet Philip Wells said: “‘Pulchritude’ is certainly up there on my blacklist. It violates all the magical impulses of balanced onomatopoeic language — it of course means ‘beautiful’, [...]]]></description>
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