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	<title>Karen Dalton Beninato</title>
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		<title>What&#8217;s a Whiter Shade of Pale? Interview with Keith Reid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ It struck me as a very useful phrase, a whiter shade of pale. I mean people now use it all the time. I was just reading an article in the <em>New York Times</em> and they were talking about a drink called absinthe and they called the absinthe a lighter shade of green. It went into the <em>Oxford Book of Quotations </em>as a phrase, so it reverberates. I think the reason is really because it's kind of something which is impressionistic, so people never really get to the bottom of it.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karendaltonbeninato.com/?p=70</link>
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		<title>Julie &amp; Julia: When the World Writes You Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blogger Julie Powell's warm relationship with her readers dovetails with Meryl Streep's relentlessly luminous Julia Child in Julie &#038; Julia. Both writers were pioneers in their respective fields -- Child searched for years to find a publisher for "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," as few publishers at the time saw the need to improve on pigs in a blanket. And Powell developed her year-long cooking project into a book when blogging was still in Beta. The book Julie &#038; Julia brings Powell's commenters into the mix as what they often become friends.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karendaltonbeninato.com/?p=63</link>
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		<title>4 Steps to Save Publishing: From the Unpublished</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am hopeful that if any old dog can learn a new trick, it's the American journalist. From Hecht to Hemingway, Dorothy Dix to Molly Ivins it is a spectacular act to follow. We may lose publishers, we may lose editors but the writers will continue to write.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karendaltonbeninato.com/?p=54</link>
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		<title>Power of the Post &#8211; the Permanent Wave of the GOP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[McCain's former spokesman: "HuffPo and [Talking Points Memo] really are the assignment editors for many in the Washington press corps - particularly the cables. That's not just a Republican hack saying it - that's speaking as a press guy fielding calls and e-mails daily from the MSM that start with, 'Did you see this thing on Huffington Post?' They were effective and they wasted a lot of our time."

You're welcome]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karendaltonbeninato.com/?p=47</link>
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		<title>The Hello Girl &#8211; Interview with Author Quinn Cummings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quinn Cummings has written her debut book, the alternately lyrical and hilarious, Notes from the Underwire, Adventures from my Awkward and Lovely Life. From her stories about starring in The Goodbye Girl to her string of endearing domestic mishaps, this book is what my book would like to be when it grows up and writes itself. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karendaltonbeninato.com/?p=42</link>
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		<title>Jackson Squared</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jackson Squared is now at Winky's, More Fun Comics on Oak Street and Snake &#038; Jake's Christmas Club Lounge and is selling brisquely.  On 8/29, the Midsummer Mardi Gras Krewe of Oak's theme was "Beat It." Things are back to normal. The new normal. In other good news, the family postponed Michael Jackson's burial to September 6th. In otherworldly news, Michael Jackson's glove is now following me on Twitter.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karendaltonbeninato.com/?p=36</link>
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		<title>Between Brad Pitt and a Pitfall: New Orleans Year 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m not worried about the music slipping away, I’m worried about the whole city slipping away. Look, if they don’t fix the wetlands, we won’t have a whole southern Louisiana in a few years. Even people from New Orleans don’t know how bad it is down south with the Army Corps of Engineers cutting canals everywhere . . . if they could just let the river roll the way it originally ran. But I know the city would hate that because it would cause shipping problems, so I’m trying to get the state government involved. Not that I trust them to do it right either. We’re trying to stomp over the tradition of Louisiana politics here, and that tradition is basically corruption.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karendaltonbeninato.com/?p=29</link>
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		<title>Hi!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For details on the New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund, drop me an email, or I can be found on Twitter at @Twitter.com much of the time.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karendaltonbeninato.com/?p=1</link>
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