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		<title>Mercantile Library Member Wins Narrative Magazine Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Scripsi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Mercantile member, University of Cincinnati English Dept. PhD. candidate, Cincinnati Review volunteer, cyclist, dog owner, and  all-around literary nice guy Brian Trapp for placing in Narrative Magazine&#8216;s 30 Below contest with his story Liability.  This isn&#8217;t the first contest he&#8217;s won.  Do yourself a favor and read it. -Ed Scripsi<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com&amp;blog=401768&amp;post=3932&amp;subd=cincinnatimercantile&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fal, la, la, &amp;c.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nemo Wolfe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s January 25th.  That means it&#8217;s Robbie Burns&#8217; Day, people.  By law, on Burns Day you cannot be fired from your job if you stumble back from your lunch hour reeking of haggis and Laphroaig.  Well, by tradition.  Or rather, that&#8217;s how it should be.  I think so, anyway. Let&#8217;s get out there and do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com&amp;blog=401768&amp;post=3927&amp;subd=cincinnatimercantile&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The End of J. J. Whitlaw</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nemo Wolfe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.  Anthony Trollope’s novels read fast.  Way faster than Eliot or Dickens.  For the nineteenth century, they’re almost like Elmore Leonard in their sparseness.  Having finished Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw we can now suggest that Anthony picked up that clear fast prose style from his mother.  Frances Trollope’s The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com&amp;blog=401768&amp;post=3922&amp;subd=cincinnatimercantile&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obituary for a Mystery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Scripsi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this day in 1809, Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston (follow the hotlink, assuming that Wikipedia isn&#8217;t down to protest legislation with cute-sounding acronyms, or that an anonymous group of hackers called &#8220;Anonymous&#8221; hasn&#8217;t destroyed the internet in an act of defiance, only to realize that the internet was the only thing that elevated them, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com&amp;blog=401768&amp;post=3916&amp;subd=cincinnatimercantile&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dickens Punch</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norm De Plume</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The New York Times, October 14, 2010: “[Dickens] had this whole punch ritual,” Mr. Wondrich explained during a recent interview at a bar near his own home in the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn. “This whole punch performance. He liked to set the liquor on fire.” There&#8217;s a recipe for Dickens Punch taken from his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com&amp;blog=401768&amp;post=3911&amp;subd=cincinnatimercantile&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw; or Scenes on the Mississippi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nemo Wolfe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a title longer than a tweet, the three-volume first edition of Frances Trollope’s 1836 anti-slavery novel came to the Mercantile as part of the McLaughlin Collection, housed for years in the Fry-carved McLaughlin case, one of the glories of the Library.  The novel now sits in the cataloguing cage where it is as unlikely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com&amp;blog=401768&amp;post=3907&amp;subd=cincinnatimercantile&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hitchens on Dickens</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Scripsi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 200th anniversary of Charles John Huffam &#8220;Boz&#8221; Dickens&#8217; birth is creeping up and will be celebrated here at the Merc with, if I have anything to do with it, Dickens punch.  You can begin celebrating his life and work, as well as that of the late great Hitch, with Hitchens&#8217; ultimate piece in Vanity Fair [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com&amp;blog=401768&amp;post=3901&amp;subd=cincinnatimercantile&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming music</title>
		<link>http://cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/upcoming-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norm De Plume</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By pure luck, the Mercantile&#8217;s Reading Room happens to be an acoustically blessed place.  That&#8217;s why you should never, ever miss an opportunity to hear live music here.  Especially if it&#8217;s free. As it happens, you have two opportunities to do just that in the coming weeks.  The first will be on Saturday, January 7th at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com&amp;blog=401768&amp;post=3894&amp;subd=cincinnatimercantile&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Are the Holidays For If Not For Reading Oneself Sick?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nemo Wolfe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve lost track of all the books we read over the hols, but here are a few:  The Drop, which is the new Michael Connelly, Alan Hollinghurst’s The Stranger’s Child, Spycatcher by Matthew Dunn, and 2011 Man Booker winner The Sense Of An Ending by Julian Barnes.  We haven’t event cracked the spine on Status [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com&amp;blog=401768&amp;post=3890&amp;subd=cincinnatimercantile&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Christmas Debacle&#8221; Act III &#8212; The Final Judgement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Scripsi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Holidays from the Mercantile Library!  -Ed Scripsi<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com&amp;blog=401768&amp;post=3877&amp;subd=cincinnatimercantile&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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