<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Second Reading</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</link><description>Second Reading</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Shirley Ann Grau's House, on the Street Where You Live]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15645-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15645-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:29:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <em> An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.</em>]]></description><author> JONATHAN YARDLEY</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Cyrano,' Gaining in the Translation]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55751-2005Feb1.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55751-2005Feb1.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:29:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <em>  An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.</em>]]></description><author> JONATHAN YARDLEY</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bernard Malamud Put 'New Life' Into the American Novel]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30171-2004Dec2.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30171-2004Dec2.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:29:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <em>  An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past</em>]]></description><author> JONATHAN YARDLEY</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food for Thought]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17418-2004Nov1.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17418-2004Nov1.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:29:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Nora Ephron's "Crazy Salad" is a sympathetic but mischievous and occasionally contrarian look at American women generally and the women's movement specifically.]]></description><author> JONATHAN YARDLEY</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holden Caulfield, Aging Gracelessly]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43680-2004Oct18.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43680-2004Oct18.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:29:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["The Catcher in the Rye" is one of the most durable and beloved books in American literature and, by any reasonable critical standard, one of the worst.]]></description><author> JONATHAN YARDLEY</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Head Above the Rest]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4845-2004Oct3.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4845-2004Oct3.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:29:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Of all the books that have been and will be revisited in this series, none reaches back more deeply into my own past than Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."]]></description><author> JONATHAN YARDLEY</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pack Journalism at Unsafe Speeds]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37323-2004Aug26.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</link><guid 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Booth Tarkington's Rascals]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47013-2004Aug6.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47013-2004Aug6.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:29:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <em>  An occasional column in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.</em>]]></description><author> JONATHAN YARDLEY</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Cheever's 'Housebreaker,' Welcome as Ever]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63180-2004Jul19.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63180-2004Jul19.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:29:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As so often happens in American literary careers, all the huzzahs came to Cheever long after his best work had been done.]]></description><author> JONATHAN YARDLEY</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['No Left Turns': The G-Man's Tour de Force]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7055-2004Jun25.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7055-2004Jun25.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:29:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[<em>  An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.</em>]]></description><author> JONATHAN YARDLEY</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still Appealing to the Young]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42112-2004Jun14.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42112-2004Jun14.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:29:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" is a very good novel, and in one respect it is astonishing: Carson McCullers began work on it when she was 20 years old and published it, in 1940, when she was 23.]]></description><author> JONATHAN YARDLEY</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nabokov's Brightly Colored Wings of Memory]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56034-2004May25.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</link><guid 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past</em>]]></description><author> JONATHAN YARDLEY</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brosnan, Throwing a Perfect Game]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56411-2004Apr6.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56411-2004Apr6.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:29:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["The Long Season" took readers inside the clubhouse, the dugout and the bullpen in ways no sportswriter ever had.]]></description><author> JONATHAN YARDLEY</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[James Baldwin Strikes a Spark]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44777-2004Feb15.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/books/columns/jonathanyardley/secondreading</link><guid 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