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		<title><![CDATA[What Dave Eggers wishes he had known when he was young and cool]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a remarkable interview with writer Dave Eggers, published
in the Harvard Advocate in 2000, just after he turned 30, which is about
the time you stop worrying if you’re cool. It’s since become
quasi-iconic among the cool, a kind of ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4208462</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Review: Conjoined twins and a pair of sisters are 'The Foursome']]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite its title’s promise of eroticism, “The Foursome” is
about as un-kinky as a book can get.

Christina Baker Kline’s novel was inspired by the true story of
Chang and Eng Bunker, the conjoined twins from Thailand who became a
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4208252</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Memoir from Ilhan Omar's sister, Sahra Noor, promises 'fierce honesty']]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[MINNEAPOLIS -- Sahra Noor’s upcoming memoir is billed as being
about a father and daughter, but it’s bound to get lots of attention
because of her younger sister, Rep. Ilhan Omar.

“Salt in the Snow: A Somali Immigrant Story,” the global ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4208249</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 16,
compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book
wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana
BookScan © 2026 Circana.

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4207016</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 16,
compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book
wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana
BookScan © 2026 Circana.

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    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In Luke Goebel's 'Kill Dick,' the LA sunshine hides some very bad things]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ANAHEIM, Calif. — Ten years and four drafts ago, Luke Goebel sat
down to channel all the sorrow and anger he felt about the state of the
nation, the corruption he believed seeped from every corner of society,
and the death of his brother into ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4205301</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chicago is a city made of its own brick: A new book says that was a stroke of luck]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO -- In his new non-fiction book “Fire and Clay: How Bricks
Reveal the Hidden History of Chicago,” Will Quam writes that brick in
Chicago is “such a ubiquitous material that it is quite easily
forgotten or ignored, simple background ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Loved 'The Correspondent'? We've got seven more titles you'll eat up]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are books you read and think might have been created just for
you. There are the books you can’t wait to discuss with your book
club. And then there are books you read and think, “Just about every
reader I know would love this.”

That�...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4205293</link>
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    <pubDate>May/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Author takes us on a historic train ride through the Civil Rights-era South]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amid the current political craziness, I decided to step back in time
with Shannon McKenna Schmidt’s recently released “You
Can’t Catch Us” (Sourcebooks, $27.99) narrative about a historic
train ride through the Civil Rights-era South.

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4205288</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Review: It took 17 years but 'The Help' author finally has a new book]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kathryn Stockett has written a huge book about three 20th century
Mississippi women who come together despite their differences. No, I’m
not talking about “The Help.”

Coming 17 years after that blockbuster, Stockett’s second novel has
a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4161799</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 9,
compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book
wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana
BookScan © 2026 Circana.

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4161750</link>
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    <pubDate>May/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 9,
compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book
wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana
BookScan © 2026 Circana.

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4161749</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Writer Julie Schumacher on women, hockey and serial killers]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[MINNEAPOLIS — It’s no coincidence that all of the protagonists of
the 13 stories in Julie Schumacher’s collection, “Patient,
Female,” are women. 

The St. Paul writer and University of Minnesota professor of creative
writing and ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4138590</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Review: Writer visits not-so-jolly old London in adventure]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[How entertaining is “City of Iron and Ivy”? I didn’t
particularly respond to a key element of the book but I loved it,
anyway.

St. Paul writer Thomas Kent West’s debut is set in the latter half
of the 19th century, mostly in an ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4097263</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Writer Julie Schumacher on women, hockey and serial killers]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ST. PAUL, Minn. -- It’s no coincidence that all of the protagonists
of the 13 stories in Julie Schumacher’s collection, “Patient,
Female,” are women. 

The St. Paul writer and University of Minnesota professor of creative
writing and ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4097223</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 2,
compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book
wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana
BookScan © 2026 Circana.

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4092075</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/07/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 2,
compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book
wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana
BookScan © 2026 Circana.

(Reprinted from ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4092071</link>
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    <pubDate>May/07/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Review: Bestselling novelist Tom Perrotta is back with 'Ghost Town']]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s just-published “Lake Effect,” bestselling writer Tom Perrotta’s
“Ghost Town” is about life in the suburbs in the 1970s.

Sweeney’s book was set near Rochester, New York, but Perrotta’s
is southeast ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4090750</link>
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    <pubDate>May/06/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jason Reynolds says teen lives are complex. His books honor these struggles]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[During troubled times, books and stories are sometimes seen as a
distraction from more important matters, says Jason Reynolds.

“I hear this. It’s like, ‘We don’t have time for books,’
says the award-winning author, rejecting the notion ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4090345</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/06/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Review: 'Olive Kitteridge' fans will love Elizabeth Strout's new hero]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Tiny interactions are antidepressants,” someone says in the new
Maria Bamford documentary, “Paralyzed by Hope.” That sentiment kept
sneaking into my head as I read Elizabeth Strout’s glorious new novel, “The
Things We Never Say.”

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4090338</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/06/2026</pubDate>
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