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		<title>Luminarium &#8211; Finalist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Luminarium has been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.]]></description>
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		<title>Cleveland, OH</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, March 29, 6:30PM Reading at Visible Voice Books, 1023 Kenilworth]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago, IL &#8211; AWP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, March 1, 2012, 4:30-5:45 PM Reading at the AWP Conference, with Philip Graham and John Warner, Hilton Chicago Rm 235]]></description>
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		<title>Luminarium &#8211; Best Books of 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Luminarium has been included in the Austin Chronicle&#8217;s roundup, &#8220;The Year in Books: Thirty-one titles that got us talking this year.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Luminarium &#8211; Favorite Novels of 2011: &#8220;Most Metaphysical&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Luminarium has made Washington Post reviewer Ron Charles&#8217; Top Ten Novels list for 2011.]]></description>
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		<title>Luminarium &#8211; &#8220;Best Experimental and Cutting-Edge&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Luminarium made CCLaP&#8217;s top ten list, &#8220;The Year in Books: Best Experimental and Cutting Edge.&#8221;: &#8220;It&#8217;s important to realize that this sometimes surreal novel is not the trippy sci-fi tale that its cover and promotional material makes it out to be . . . but what it turns out to be is pretty great too, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luminarium &#8211; Notable Books of 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Luminarium has been selected for The Washington Post&#8217;s Notable Fiction of 2011.]]></description>
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		<title>Luminarium &#8211; Best Books of 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Luminarium has been selected as one of the best novels of 2011 by the Kansas City Star: &#8220;Shakar brings a host of profound concerns to this inventive, metaphysical, funny and caring novel set in post-9/11 New York City, ground zero for moral and spiritual paradoxes, in which one twin brother is in a coma and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Interview Show, Chicago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Interview Show is a Web-based talk show, replete with host (the effervescent Mark Bazer), desk, a couch, theme music, and studio audience (above).  Best of all, it&#8217;s held in the bar/club, The Hideout, with bands playing after, and waitresses walking through the audience keep the liquor flowing.  Many thanks to Mark, my fellow guests, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luminarium &#8211; Best Books of 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Luminarium has been named one of the best novels of 2011 by NPR Books Editor Parul Sehgal.]]></description>
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