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	<description>Celebrity Gossip and Pop Culture from Australia and Hollywood</description>
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		<title>Peel Your Ears While I Vomit On The Table: Learn To Speak Hipster</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/11/peel-your-ears-while-i-vomit-on-the-table-learn-to-speak-hipster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ravi Somaiya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word &#8216;hipster&#8217; is wildly misused. It actually refers to cool jazz-era cats from the &#8217;20s to the &#8217;60s. You need to know your groceries, so check this collection of their genuine hipster slang.
From the Guardian, who snaffled it in turn from a book called Straight From the Fridge, A Dictionary of Hipster Slang by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Cruise Controls Books And Bottles With His Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hamilton Nolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Cruise! He is so crazy, what with the Scientology madness. It&#8217;s been so long since we heard examples of his craziness. Thank god there is a new tell-all book! In which Tom Cruise controls inanimate objects, with brainwaves.
Scientology refugee Marc Headley has written a book called Blown For Good &#8212; featuring a dramatic, action-scene-type [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conspiracy Nuts Save Random House</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/conspiracy-nuts-save-random-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hamilton Nolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nine short months ago, employees at Random House were silently urinating in their knickers after a new CEO seemed poised to drastically cut budgets. Now, they&#8217;re poppin bottles. What changed? Dan Brown!
We&#8217;ll try not to use too much insider publishing industry &#8220;lingo&#8221; as we break this down for you: Dan Brown is on Random House, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad, Big Books Keep Good People In Publishing Employed</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/bad-big-books-keep-good-people-in-publishing-employed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your sneers mean nothing: Dan Brown&#8217;s The Lost Symbol has already sold 1 million copies.
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		<title>Happy Dan Brown Day</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/happy-dan-brown-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pareene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hooray! Today you can finally buy Dan Brown&#8217;s The Lost Symbol, a new interactive novel about a heroic professor with a mullet who fights Catholics and Masons. It will save publishing, and ruin Washington DC.
The Lost Symbol (the book is named for the archaic graphemes found throughout the book&#8212;when decoded these &#8220;alphabetic letters&#8221; make up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crazy British Weed Makes Kids Go Loco, Moms Write Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hamilton Nolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
In the UK there&#8217;s a magical strain of skunk weed: It addicts teenagers, turns them psycho, prompts their mum to write a tell-all book, and then sends the nation into an uproar over said book. And it&#8217;s coming to America!
The uproar, that is! And the book. But not the weed, as far as I know, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Julia Child, Recipes Ride Box Office Tide To Number One</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/08/julia-child-recipes-ride-box-office-tide-to-number-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Belonsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The late, great Julia Child&#8217;s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, has been given a cinematic boost, thanks to Julie &#38; Julia. And she&#8217;s not alone.
According to Nielsen BookScan, Child&#8217;s classic recipe book, published nearly five decades ago, will take the number one slot on the New York Times Book Reviews&#8217; how-to best-seller list. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lord Of The Flies Scribe Once Attempted To Rape A Teenager</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/08/lord-of-the-flies-scribe-once-attempted-to-rape-a-teenager/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the cajun boy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An upcoming biography on Nobel laureate William Golding says that the author tried to rape a 15-year-old fellow piano student named Dora when he was 18 and on break from his first year as a student at Oxford.
According to The Guardian, Golding&#8217;s biographer, Oxford English professor John Carey, discovered the rape story in his subject&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Exciting As Stroller Set Gossip Gets</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/08/as-exciting-as-stroller-set-gossip-gets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Moylan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amy Sohn&#8217;s new book, Prospect Park West, sure does have some some hot dish: Sean Penn&#8217;s bad in bed, Robert Downey Jr. cheats, and Kate Hudson is an evil bitch&#8230;in her mind. The celebs don&#8217;t care, but the New York Post does!
One of the ladies, in Sohn&#8217;s upcoming book about four Brooklyn mummies behaving badly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yale Press Sides With Religious Fanatics Over Own Author</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/08/yale-press-sides-with-religious-fanatics-over-own-author/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hamilton Nolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yale University Press is publishing a book about the Danish Muhammad cartoon controversy of 2005. But Yale will not publish any images of the cartoons, or Muhammad, because Yale University Press is run by freedom-disregarding accommodationist pussies.
To reiterate: this book, entitled The Cartoons That Shook the World, is about this cartoon controversy. But Yale told [...]]]></description>
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