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		<title>In One Person by John Irving. Sunday Times, 13 May, 2012.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In One Person by John Irving Stephen Amidon The Sunday Times Published: 13 May 2012 Fiction John Irving’s 13th novel is an audacious exploration of the shifting frontiers of sexuality that proves to be inspirational and exasperating in equal measures. Set in the familiar Irving ­territory of New England prep schools and expatriate Vienna, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenamidon.com&#038;blog=4624067&#038;post=1618&#038;subd=stephenamidon&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><a href="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/books/fiction/article1034042.ece">In One Person by John Irving</a></h2>
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<p>John Irving’s 13th novel is an audacious exploration of the shifting frontiers of sexuality that proves to be inspirational and exasperating in equal measures. Set in the familiar Irving ­territory of New England prep schools and expatriate Vienna, it depicts the sentimental education of&#8230;</p>
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		<title>The Good Father by Noah Hawley. Sunday Times, 22 April, 2012.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Good Father by Noah Hawley Stephen Amidon The Sunday Times Published: 22 April 2012 Fiction If it is every parent’s nightmare to watch helplessly as a child goes bad, then Paul Allen, the anguished narrator of Noah ­Hawley’s gripping new novel, is living that nightmare in front of millions of spectators. Not only has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenamidon.com&#038;blog=4624067&#038;post=1609&#038;subd=stephenamidon&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<h2><a href="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/books/fiction/article1018996.ece">The Good Father by Noah Hawley</a></h2>
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<li>Published: 22 April 2012</li>
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<p><strong><em><a href="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/books/fiction/article1018996.ece"><img title="Noah Hawley: an effective portrait of a harrowed parent" src="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/multimedia/dynamic/00261/P50_Noah_Hawley_261886s.jpg" alt="Noah Hawley: an effective portrait of a harrowed parent" width="139" height="93" /></a></em></strong></p>
<p>If it is every parent’s nightmare to watch helplessly as a child goes bad, then Paul Allen, the anguished narrator of Noah ­Hawley’s gripping new novel, is living that nightmare in front of millions of spectators. Not only has his 20-year-old son Danny been accused of shooting a man in&#8230;</p>
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		<title>William Boyd. Waiting for Sunrise.  Washington Post, 16 April, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book World: William Boyd&#8217;s &#8220;Waiting for Sunrise.&#8221; By Stephen Amidon, Published: April 16 In the early pages of “Waiting for Sunrise,” William Boyd’s cunning tale of espionage in World War I, a Viennese soldier warns Lysander Rief, the book’s naive hero, not to be fooled by the apparent placidity of the Austrian capital. Below the surface, he warns, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenamidon.com&#038;blog=4624067&#038;post=1604&#038;subd=stephenamidon&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:15px;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-world-william-boyds-waiting-for-sunrise/2012/04/16/gIQAkvbHMT_story.html" target="_blank">Book World:</a></span></h1>
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<h3><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-world-william-boyds-waiting-for-sunrise/2012/04/16/gIQAkvbHMT_story.html" target="_blank">William Boyd&#8217;s &#8220;Waiting for Sunrise.&#8221;</a></h3>
<h3>By Stephen Amidon, Published: April 16</h3>
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<article>In the early pages of “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061876763?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=washpost-books-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=0061876763">Waiting for Sunrise</a>,” William Boyd’s cunning tale of espionage in World War I, a Viennese soldier warns Lysander Rief, the book’s naive hero, not to be fooled by the apparent placidity of the Austrian capital. Below the surface, he warns, flows a powerful “river of sex,” capable of sweeping away anyone who wades too deeply into its waters.Rief appears in particular danger of going under. The young English actor has traveled to Vienna to seek treatment for anorgasmia, the inability to achieve climax during sexual congress. His doctor is a fellow British expatriate named Bensimon, part of a legion of psychoanalysts mushrooming in Freud’s fertile shadow throughout the city. In Bensimon’s waiting room, Rief makes the acquaintance of two patients who will play decisive roles in his life. The first, a free-spirited sculptor named Hettie Bull, soon becomes his lover. The second, a military attache at the British consulate named Alwyn Munro, will become a perhaps even more intimate figure: his spymaster.  <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-world-william-boyds-waiting-for-sunrise/2012/04/16/gIQAkvbHMT_story.html" target="_blank">Read on&#8230;</a></article>
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		<title>Taylor Kitsch Interview. Sunday Times, April 14, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taylor made for glory Stephen Amidon The Sunday Times Published: 15 April 2012 Film It must be tough being Taylor Kitsch, I find myself thinking as I enter the posh Santa Monica hotel suite where the Canadian actor is hosting the press. The thought surprises me. After all, Kitsch seems to be about the luckiest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenamidon.com&#038;blog=4624067&#038;post=1602&#038;subd=stephenamidon&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><a href="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/film_and_tv/film/article1014805.ece">Taylor made for glory</a></h2>
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<li>Published: 15 April 2012</li>
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<p>It must be tough being Taylor Kitsch, I find myself thinking as I enter the posh Santa Monica hotel suite where the Canadian actor is hosting the press. The thought surprises me. After all, Kitsch seems to be about the luckiest man on the planet right now. Impossibly handsome as well as&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Anne Tyler Interview. Sunday Times, March 11, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Modesty ablaze Stephen Amidon The Sunday Times Published: 11 March 2012 I approach Anne Tyler&#8217;s Baltimore home not knowing what to expect. After all, this is the first face-to-face interview the reclusive Pulitzer Prize-winning author has granted to anyone in nearly 40 years. Although her large readership is as passionately devoted as any American novelist&#8217;s&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenamidon.com&#038;blog=4624067&#038;post=1589&#038;subd=stephenamidon&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><a href="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/books/fiction/article988320.ece">Modesty ablaze</a></h2>
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<p>I approach Anne Tyler&#8217;s Baltimore home not knowing what to expect. After all, this is the first face-to-face interview the reclusive Pulitzer Prize-winning author has granted to anyone in nearly 40 years. Although her large readership is as passionately devoted as any American novelist&#8217;s&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Watergate by Thomas Mallon. Globe and Mail, March 3, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review: Fiction Dark days in the Nixon White House reviewed by stephen amidon From Saturday&#8217;s Globe and Mail Published Friday, Mar. 02, 2012 4:00PM EST As we approach the 40th anniversary of the third-rate burglary that launched the greatest of all American political scandals, it is worth remembering the sheer human breadth of Watergate. Ronald [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenamidon.com&#038;blog=4624067&#038;post=1578&#038;subd=stephenamidon&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<h2 id="articletitle"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/watergate-by-thomas-mallon/article2356827/">Dark days in the Nixon White House</a></h2>
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<h5>From Saturday&#8217;s Globe and Mail</h5>
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<p>As we approach the 40th anniversary of the third-rate burglary that launched the greatest of all American political scandals, it is worth remembering the sheer human breadth of Watergate. Ronald Reagan’s Iran-contra shenanigans and Bill Clinton’s dalliance with Monica Lewinsky certainly had their notable characters, but they were one-act chamber pieces compared with the full-blown Shakespearean spectacle that took place in Washington in the early 1970s. From hunted, haunted King Richard to villains like G. Gordon Liddy to court jesters like Bebe Rebozo, it was a scandal that encompassed just about every human type.</p>
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<p>It is therefore fitting that Thomas Mallon’s remarkable novel of the scandal is told from multiple points of view, mostly those of players who are now footnotes in the history books. <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/watergate-by-thomas-mallon/article2356827/" target="_blank"> Read on</a>&#8230;</p>
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		<title>John Carter&#8217;s the Man&#8230;of Mars.  Sunday Times, 27 Feb, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one could run and run Stephen Amidon The Sunday Times Published: 26 February 2012 Before Luke Skywalker, James T Kirk and Avatar’s Jake Sully, there was John Carter. The hero of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s epic novels about an American civil-war veteran who finds himself exiled on Mars may only now be making his screen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenamidon.com&#038;blog=4624067&#038;post=1576&#038;subd=stephenamidon&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><a href="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/books/fiction/article876089.ece">This one could run and run</a></h2>
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<p>Before Luke Skywalker, James T Kirk and Avatar’s Jake Sully, there was John Carter. The hero of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s epic novels about an American civil-war veteran who finds himself exiled on Mars may only now be making his screen debut in Disney’s John Carter, but he has held a&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Raylan by Elmore Leonard. Sunday Times, 26 Feb, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raylan by Elmore Leonard Stephen Amidon The Sunday Times Published: 26 February 2012 Like a celebrated musician, Elmore Leonard’s greatness stems from his ability to make a difficult craft look effortless. Over a 60-year career that has produced such masterpieces as Get Shorty and Rum Punch, Leonard’s apparently laid-back approach to crime fiction has masked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenamidon.com&#038;blog=4624067&#038;post=1573&#038;subd=stephenamidon&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><a href="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/books/fiction/article876058.ece">Raylan by Elmore Leonard</a></h2>
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<p><a href="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/books/fiction/article876058.ece"><img title="Timothy Olyphant (Raylan Givens VIII), Joelle Carter (Ava Crowder). (Sony)" src="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/multimedia/dynamic/00249/Raylan-1024_249160s.jpg" alt="Timothy Olyphant (Raylan Givens VIII), Joelle Carter (Ava Crowder). (Sony)" width="139" height="93" /></a></p>
<p>Like a celebrated musician, Elmore Leonard’s greatness stems from his ability to make a difficult craft look effortless. Over a 60-year career that has produced such masterpieces as Get Shorty and Rum Punch, Leonard’s apparently laid-back approach to crime fiction has masked plots as&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Radio interview with phone in.  Illinois Public Radio.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, February 08, 2012, 11:06  AM (CST) to 12 noon. WILL-AM 580 Focus: Interviews on global affairs and daily life. Illinois Public Radio  Interview with phone-in. Hosted by David Inge The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the Human Heart Stephen Amidon, Novelist, Essayist, Critic Thomas Amidon, M.D., Cardiologist in Kalispell, Montana Email your questions to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenamidon.com&#038;blog=4624067&#038;post=1567&#038;subd=stephenamidon&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Wednesday, February 08, 2012, 11:06  AM (CST) to 12 noon.</h3>
<p>WILL-AM 580</p>
<p>Focus: Interviews on global affairs and daily life.</p>
<p>Illinois Public Radio  Interview with phone-in.</p>
<p>Hosted by David Inge</p>
<h3><em>The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the Human Heart</em></h3>
<p>Stephen Amidon, Novelist, Essayist, Critic</p>
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		<title>The Barbarian Nurseries, by Hector Tobar. The Guardian, 27 January, 2012</title>
		<link>http://stephenamidon.com/2012/01/28/the-barbarian-nurseries-by-hector-tobar-the-guardian-27-january-2012/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Barbarian Nurseries, by Hector Tobar. A novel about American racial tensions. Set in contemporary southern California, Héctor Tobar&#8217;s second novel energetically explores America&#8217;s hidden seam of racial discord; here modest incidents can develop into controversy in a matter of hours. The story opens quietly, with a detailed portrait of the suburban Torres-Thompson family in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenamidon.com&#038;blog=4624067&#038;post=1552&#038;subd=stephenamidon&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<h1 style="text-align:left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;font-weight:normal;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/27/barbarian-nurseries-hector-tobar-review?newsfeed=true" target="_blank"><strong>The Barbarian Nurseries, by Hector Tobar.</strong></a></span></h1>
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<p>A novel about American racial tensions.</p>
<p>Set in contemporary southern California, Héctor Tobar&#8217;s second novel energetically</p>
<p>explores America&#8217;s hidden seam of racial discord; here modest incidents can develop</p>
<p>into controversy in a matter of hours. The story opens quietly,</p>
<p>with a detailed portrait of the suburban</p>
<p>Torres-Thompson family in decline&#8230;<a href="http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/viewProduct.do?ISBN=9781444726756"><img class="alignleft" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/covers/2012/1/25/1327506017652/The-Barbarian-Nurseries.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="215" /></a></p>
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