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		<title>Lev Grossman video chat/interview: The Magicians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Books &#038; 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 Warp, Codex [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/07/19/lev-grossman-video-chatinterview-the-magicians/</link>
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		<title>#Booksandbars Tweetup: Friday, July 16th, 6-8pm</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/06/16/booksandbars-tweetup-friday-july-16th-6-8pm/</link>
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		<title>Blogshelf: Be Here Now 8/09</title>
		<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 on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/04/13/blogshelf-be-here-now-809/</link>
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		<title>Blogshelf 7/09: This is not my beautiful wife</title>
		<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 friend, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/04/13/blogshelf-709-this-is-not-my-beautiful-wife/</link>
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		<title>Blog Vault: 6/9 Bonk</title>
		<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 you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/04/13/blog-vault-69-bonk/</link>
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		<title>Blog Vault: 5/09 Seth Grahame-Smith Skype Chat</title>
		<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. He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/04/13/blog-vault-509-seth-grahame-smith-skype-chat/</link>
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		<title>Blog Vault: 4/09</title>
		<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 needing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/04/13/blog-vault-409/</link>
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		<title>Blog Vault: 3/09</title>
		<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 here. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/04/13/blog-vault-309/</link>
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		<title>Blog Vault: 2/09</title>
		<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 tackled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/04/13/blog-vault-209/</link>
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		<title>Blog Vault: 1/09</title>
		<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 unique [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/04/13/blog-vault-109/</link>
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		<title>Blog Vault: 12/08</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/04/13/blog-vault-1208/</link>
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		<title>Books &amp; Bars: Blog Vault 11/08</title>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/04/13/books-bars-blog-vault/</link>
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		<title>David Benioff video interviews</title>
		<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. 


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		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/03/20/david-benioff-video-interviews/</link>
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		<title>Video Chat with author Laird Hunt &#8211; 2.23.10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Video Chat with author Laird Hunt &#8211; 2.23.10
Sorry a lot of you missed our very fun and enlightening meeting on Feb 23rd. Here&#8217;re a few video clips from our Skype-chat with author Laird Hunt discussing his wonderfully weird and wild, Ray of the Star. You should definitely read the book. 
www.lairdhunt.net
The Inspiration for Ray of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/02/25/video-chat-with-author-laird-hunt-2-23-10/</link>
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		<title>Charlie Brown adults have supper after crotch kicks and boob punches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Video highlight reel of some of our laughs from Ender&#8217;s Game discussion on Feb 9, 2010. Enjoy:

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		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/02/10/charlie-brown-adults-have-supper-after-crotch-kicks-and-boob-punches/</link>
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		<title>Ender&#8217;s Game video: Crotch-kicks, supper, child geniuses, boob punches, control tools, Charlie Brown adults and more:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A video compilation of a few of the laughs we had on Feb 9, 2010. After 6 years, we&#8217;re still having fun with literature. Thanks to everyone who helped us get this far: Magers &#038; Quinn esp. Mary Magers, Jay Peterson, and David Enyeart, Bryant Lake Bowl, The Onion esp. Katie Moen, Carissa Ptacek and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/02/10/enders-game-video-crotch-kicks-supper-child-geniuses-boob-punches-control-tools-charlie-brown-adults-and-more/</link>
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		<title>kobayashi maru</title>
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		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/02/10/kobayashi-maru/</link>
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		<title>Next meeting: Tue Feb 9th, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We meet next Tuesday, Feb 9th to discuss Ender&#8217;s Game by Orson Scott Card. It&#8217;s also our 6th anniversary, or is birthday more appropriate? Lately the theater has been filling up by about 6:30-40pm. So please arrive early if you can. 
If you don&#8217;t get in the theater for the discussion, please stick around and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/02/01/next-meeting-tue-feb-9th-2010/</link>
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		<title>Jan 26, 2010 &#8211; The History of Love</title>
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		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2010/01/29/jan-26-2010-the-history-of-love/</link>
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		<title>Hannah Tinti:  &#8220;I will skype-drink with you anytime, Minneapolis.&#8221;</title>
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Hannah Tinti was fun and informative in a rousing year end night at Books &#038; Bars.
I was all set to blog it up and then saw her awesome status update (above) and blog post. So, let&#8217;s start with the author and read what she had to say about our event: 
http://hannahtinti.com/2009/12/books-bars/
Brief video clip (shot on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksandbars.com/2009/12/09/hannah-tinti-i-will-skype-drink-with-you-anytime-minneapolis/</link>
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