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		<title>Orhan Pamuk talk</title>
		<link>http://www.hoodedhawk.com/blog/2009/11/23/orhan-pamuk-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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Turkish author and Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk was interviewed by Robert Siegel of NPR&#8217;s &#8220;All Things Considered for a Smithsonian Associates lecture tonight.  The insights into Pamuk&#8217;s writing method as well as how he sees the translations of his books was quite enjoyable.  His latest book is &#8220;The Museum of Innocence&#8221;.  I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frozen Fire &#8211; Advance reading copy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 01:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cool!  I just won an advance reading copy of the novel &#8220;Frozen Fire&#8221; by  Bill Evans and Marianna Jameson.  I had entered a drawing for this on the Tor website a few weeks ago and&#8230;guess what arrived in my mailbox today?  Not bad, since they only gave away 50 copies.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Stross in Baltimore</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 22:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
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Science Fiction author Charlie Stross is the GOH at this year&#8217;s Balticon (Baltimore Science Fiction Convention).  I went on Friday and met Mr. Stross and got him to sign some of his books for me.  Nice guy!
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		<title>Author roundtable with Catherine Asaro, Greg Bear, etc.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 04:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I went to a booksigning and a panel of SF authors at Reiter&#8217;s Scientific Bookstore in DC.  Among the authors present were: Dr. Catherine Asaro, Greg Bear, Bud Sparhawk, Tom Purdom, Tom Ligon, Yoji Kondo (Eric Kotani), John Hemry (Jack Campbell), Charles E. Gannon, and Dr. Arlan Andrews.  The roundtable discussion topic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arthur Phillips Reads &#8220;The Song is You&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.hoodedhawk.com/blog/2009/04/30/arthur-phillips-reads-the-song-is-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 03:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I (Ok, I dragged Dylan along too) went to see Arthur Phillips read from and discuss his new book,&#8221;The Song is You&#8221; at Politics and Prose in Washington, DC.  At one point Mr. Phillips was asking the audience if anyone did Billie Holiday impressions:  &#8220;&#8230;anyone?  How about you, young man?&#8221;  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lisa Randall at Smithsonian</title>
		<link>http://www.hoodedhawk.com/blog/2009/04/24/lisa-randall-at-smithsonian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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On Friday (April 24, 2009) I went to see Physicist Lisa Randall receive the Benjamin Franklin Creativity Laureate Award from The Smithsonian Associates and the Creativity Foundation.  Professor Randall discussed the role of creativity in her life and work with University of Chicago professor Michael Turner.  The talk was in the Baird Auditorium [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ultimate Science Fiction Collection, only $116,000.00</title>
		<link>http://www.hoodedhawk.com/blog/2009/03/13/ultimate-science-fiction-collection-only-11600000/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just received an email from ABEBooks.com, stating that:
The Hugo Awards and the Nebula Awards are the traditional yardsticks for fantasy and science fiction writing. Since 1953 when the Hugos began, (the Nebulas started in 1965) there have been 82 titles awarded one or the other prize &#8211; and 19 titles with the distinctive honor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Remembers:  neat new service</title>
		<link>http://www.hoodedhawk.com/blog/2009/01/20/amazon-remembers-neat-new-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hoodedhawk.com/blog/2009/01/20/amazon-remembers-neat-new-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At lunch today I was browsing Amazon.com via the Amazon iPhone app.  It prompted me to try a new experimental service:  Amazon Remembers.  Seems you can take pictures of things you want to &#8220;remember&#8221; while you are out and about.  The pix get sent to Amazon, and the system will try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First edition Origin of Species</title>
		<link>http://www.hoodedhawk.com/blog/2008/11/04/first-edition-origin-of-species/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
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A bookseller in London has a first edition of Charles Darwin&#8217;s &#8220;On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection&#8221; for sale; a steal at only $180,000.00
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		<title>Jacques Pepin at the Smithsonian</title>
		<link>http://www.hoodedhawk.com/blog/2008/10/29/jacques-pepin-at-the-smithsonian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to see Jacques Pepin give a talk at the Baird Auditorium (in the National Museum of Natural History) on Wednesday night &#8211; one of the Smithsonian Resident Associate presentations.  He&#8217;s my favorite chef, and I&#8217;ve been watching his tv shows, reading his books and cooking his recipes for 15 years or so [...]]]></description>
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