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		<title>2013</title>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2013/01/01/schedule/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Phenow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2013 1st Tue &#8211; The School II Bistro &#38; Wine Bar 2nd Tue &#8211; Bryant Lake Bowl, Mpls  3rd Tue &#8211; Amsterdam, St. Paul Feb 19 &#8211; Carry the One by Carol Anshaw Amsterdam March &#8211; The Round House by Louise Erdrich April  - Arcadia by Lauren Groff May &#8211; Where&#8217;d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Swap in December</title>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2012/11/26/book-swap-in-december/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book swapping From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Book swapping or book exchange is the practice of a swap of books between one person and another. Practiced among book groups, friends and colleagues at work, it provides an inexpensive way for people to exchange books, find out about new books and obtain a new book to read without having to pay. Because swaps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short trailer</title>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2012/03/15/short-trailer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kamin</dc:creator>
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		<title>Watch our TV Demo Reel</title>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2011/11/30/watch-our-tv-demo-reel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kamin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[October 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Gargoyle]]></category>
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		<title>Jonathan Tropper video chat</title>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2011/02/09/jonathan-tropper-video-chat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kamin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Tropper]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Tropper video chatted with us 10/12/10. He was  hiding out in someone&#8217;s office while ditching a community meeting of some sort. He was funny, gracious and really likable.  Not sure if he was wearing cheap colored contacts.]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Elliott video chat</title>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2011/02/09/stephen-elliott-video-chat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Stephen for a lively and informative video chat on 2/8. He said we broke his Skype cherry and it was amazing.]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year and New Bar</title>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/09/17/books-bars-now-twice-monthly-and-new-venue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kamin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aster Cafe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BOOKS &#038; BARS NOW TWICE MONTHLY AND NEW VENUE (updated 1/2/11) Friends of Books &#038; Bars, Thank you all for your support of Books &#038; Bars this past year. It&#8217;s been a rewarding collaboration for me and I hope you, too. Here&#8217;s looking ahead to our continued successes and potential team efforts in 2011 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lev Grossman video chat/interview: The Magicians</title>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/07/19/lev-grossman-video-chatinterview-the-magicians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Books &#38; Bars video chatted with Lev Grossman about The Magicians on July 13, 2010. See our three part video series from our event on youtube.com: (spoiler alert!) http://www.youtube.com/user/MustacheRobots Lev Grossman is the book critic for Time magazine and used to prefer Marvel Comics over DC, but now reads them both. He’s written the novels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#Booksandbars Tweetup: Friday, July 16th, 6-8pm</title>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/06/16/booksandbars-tweetup-friday-july-16th-6-8pm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Books &#038; Bars welcomes you, the writers/readers/book lovers/publishers and book sellers of Minneapolis &#038; St. Paul, to shake hands like Minnie and Paul. Let&#8217;s get together and exchange good cheer and ideas to keep our Twin Cities&#8217; literary scene vibrant. Join presenters PaperDarts Magazine, Replacement Press, John Jodzio and Jeff Kamin for a fun tweetup [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogshelf: Be Here Now 8/09</title>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/04/13/blogshelf-be-here-now-809/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kamin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Audrey Niffenegger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Soap Factory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Time Traveler's Wife]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Be Here Now Books &#038; Bars enjoyed its biggest audience yet with 140 people in attendance to discuss Audrey Niffenegger’s smash hit, The Time Traveler’s Wife. We were fortunate to be invited to a larger venue, an art gallery named The Soap Factory. Our book club was part of an exhibit called Common Room based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogshelf 7/09: This is not my beautiful wife</title>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/04/13/blogshelf-709-this-is-not-my-beautiful-wife/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kamin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Atmospheric Disturbances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rivka Galchen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is not my beautiful wife Do you trust the critics for your book club picks? I used to rely on them quite heavily for my book choices but am beginning to doubt that process as a viable option. If you’re interested in a new book and can’t get a positive word-of-mouth review from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Vault: 6/9 Bonk</title>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/04/13/blog-vault-69-bonk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[118 people were in attendance as Books &#038; Bars covered Mary Roach’s Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex on 6/9. With twenty people over fire code capacity we had our largest crowd (sneaking in) according to the Bryant Lake-Bowl servers. In discussing Bonk, I allowed (encouraged) double entendres and sexual innuendos but warned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Vault: 5/09 Seth Grahame-Smith Skype Chat</title>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/04/13/blog-vault-509-seth-grahame-smith-skype-chat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kamin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pride & Prejudice & Zombies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not Your Mother’s Jane Austen Seth Grahame-Smith chatted with Books &#038; Bars via Skype video. It was our first video chat with an author and a rousing success we hope to repeat soon. A movie screen on stage held his image while we sat in the theater with a couple microphones to ask him questions. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Vault: 4/09</title>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/04/13/blog-vault-409/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kamin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Haruki Murakami]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book Club as Metaphor &#8212; Guest Post from Jeff Kamin&#8217;s Books &#038; Bars Books &#038; Bars’ 60th meeting was a rousing success with the right crowd, comments, weather, new sound system and more. But the star was the perfect book choice, Kafka on the Shoreby Haruki Murakami. Easily my favorite since I’ve been blogging about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Vault: 3/09</title>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/04/13/blog-vault-309/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kamin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Dispossessed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ursula K. LeGuin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anarchy at Books &#038; Bars! Guest Post on Ursula K. LeGuin&#8217;s Dispossessed Here is this month&#8217;s guest post from Jeff Kamin, reporting on Minneapolis&#8217; Books &#038; Bars Book Club which met this time to discuss Ursula K. LeGuin&#8217;s novel The Dispossessed. Last month Jeff reported on their discussion of The Monsters of Templeton, read that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Vault: 2/09</title>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/04/13/blog-vault-209/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More Monsters! Books &#038; Bars Guest Post on The Monsters of Templeton Here is February&#8217;s Guest Post from Jeff Kamin, moderator of Books &#038; Bars Book Club in Minneapolis, MN. Last month the group sat down to discuss Miranda July&#8217;s No One Belongs Here More Than You and this month (on their 5th anniversary!) they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Vault: 1/09</title>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/04/13/blog-vault-109/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No One Belongs Here, Reading this Blog, More Than You &#8212; Guest Post from Books and Bars in Minneapolis I&#8217;m pleased to offer the latest guest post from Jeff Kamin at Books &#038; Bars in Minneapolis who last month discussed Per Petterson&#8217;s Out Stealing Horses (which my book group just picked btw). This month this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Vault: 12/08</title>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/04/13/blog-vault-1208/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;People like it when you tell them things, in suitable portions, in a modest, intimate tone, and they think they know you, but they do not, they know about you, for what they are let in on are facts, not feelings, not what your opinion is about anything at all, not how what has happened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books &amp; Bars: Blog Vault 11/08</title>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/04/13/books-bars-blog-vault/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi, I&#8217;m Jeff Kamin, moderator of Books &#038; Bars, the biggest book club in one of our nation&#8217;s most literate cities, Minneapolis. Books &#038; Bars is not your typical book club. We provide a unique atmosphere for lively discussions of interesting authors. Every second Tuesday about 100 of us meet in a theater attached to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Benioff video interviews</title>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/03/20/david-benioff-video-interviews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Words &#038; Wine? Hey! Sounds/looks familiar. Awesome cable access quality here: Don&#8217;t hate him because he&#8217;s married to Amanda Peet and the son of a former head of Goldman Sachs. And an incredibly successful screenwriter and talented novelist.]]></description>
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