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		<title>Michelle Alexander and The New Jim Crow&#8212;In Compton Thursday Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 11:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Just about the time that POTUS Obama was snarling traffic getting to his starzilla  party in Studio City, civil rights attorney and best selling author Michelle Alexander was rockin&#8217; the house across town in Compton, where she gave a 90-minute speech in front of a large and wildly enthusiastic crowd at a the New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday Must Reads</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 09:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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COMPUTER ERRORS MAY HAVE DESIGNATED POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS PAROLEES FOR NON-REVOCABLE PAROLE, SAYS CALIFORNIA INSPECTOR GENERAL 
Dear CDCR, 
 If the LA Times&#8217; Jack Dolan has his story right,   you&#8217;ve done a lousy job of sorting out who can be paroled without supervision and who needs high control parole supervision. If true, it means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from the LAT 2010 Book Prizes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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DAVE EGGERS&#8217; PRIZES AND QUIRKS ON LAT BOOK PRIZE NIGHT 
As most of you know, the LA Times Book Awards were this past Friday night, and the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books took place on Saturday and Sunday at UCLA.  125,000 people were expected at the LATFOB and judging from the crowds I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WANT iPAD!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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It ain&#8217;t going to save the newspaper biz, but it is going to change book publishing&#8212;in a good way, in my personal opinion.  (Operative word &#8220;change&#8221; not &#8220;save.&#8221;)  Who cares about paper.  Bring on the literary downloads.
Okay, now onward to USC to teach.  (Must stop obsessing.) 
See you after that other, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WLA&#8217;s Last-Gasp-of-Summer Reading List</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/writers-and-writing/2009/admin/wlas-last-gasp-of-summer-reading-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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These are sobering times.  The Station fire, the largest fire in LA County history, has been deemed to be arson. It has cost the County of Los Angeles $21 million to fight, with that dollar amount still rising.  Worse, it has cost us the lives of two deeply admired firefighters  (I will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The First Annual WLA Summer Reading List&#8230;.. Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Finally, the 3rd Chapter in summer reading&#8230;.and an intriguing, smart, amusing and quirky list it is.   We&#8217;ve got Controller Laura Chick, DA Steve Cooley, Attorney General Jerry Brown, City Council Member Ed Reyes, gang advisor Dr. Jorja Leap, and Tell Zell&#8217;s the honorable Mr. Inkstained Retch. 
There is the public school contingent, LAUSD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Reading List, Part 3 &#8211; Evidently, I lied</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I promised it&#8217;d be Monday for more book recs.  But, it seems I lied.  It will  be Tuesday, not today.  
The deal is, I promised I&#8217;d wait for one more person whose book choice I won&#8217;t get until later today.  
(Hey,  more book recommendations are never a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WLA Summer Reading List 3 on Monday, I Promise</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/los-angeles-writers/2008/admin/summer-reading-list-iii-on-monday-i-promise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Next Book list on Monday&#8212;fer sure.
It&#8217;ll feature the book recommendations of:  LA District Attorney, Steve Cooley:  California Attorney General Jerry Brown;  LA Times Opinion Editor Nick Goldberg;  Tell Zell&#8217;s Inkstained Retch; LA City Controller Laura Chick; UTLA President A.J. Duffie;  LAUSD School Board President Monica Garcia&#8230;.and more. 
In the meantime: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 1st Annual WLA Late Summer Reading List: Part 2</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/los-angeles-writers/2008/admin/the-1st-annual-wla-late-summer-reading-list-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/los-angeles-writers/2008/admin/the-1st-annual-wla-late-summer-reading-list-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Here&#8217;s round two of our late summer reading recommendations (which, by the way, have been a lotta fun to gather).  
Today: 
&#8212;Sheriff Baca tells you exactly which book can help change your life&#8230;..
&#8212;Zev Yaroslavsky picks the ultimate tome to read by the pool while fashioning public policy&#8230;.
&#8212;Novelist/writing prof/blogger Tod Goldberg recommends smart, entertaining reading [...]]]></description>
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