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		<title>Featherproof Destroys Their Own Books&#8230;Then Sells Them</title>
		<link>http://publishchicago.com/2009/07/21/featherproof-destroys-their-own-booksthen-sells-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[blake butler]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[God, I love Featherproof.  Observe below as they wreak havoc on their newest title, Scorch Atlas, by Blake Butler, &#8220;A novel of 14 interlocking stories set in ruined American locales where birds speak gibberish, the sky rains gravel, and millions starve, disappear or grow coats of mold.&#8221;  The book releases on 9/9/09, but you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tweets to Read</title>
		<link>http://publishchicago.com/2009/07/07/tweets-to-read/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dancing girl press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dominique raccah]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chicago publishing twitter-ers to follow:
draccah &#8211; Dominique Raccah, CEO of Sourcebooks
featherproof - Chicago-based Indy publisher
gapersblock &#8211; Chicago news source Gapers Block
maureenlipinski- new Chicago author of A Bump in the Road
stopsmiling &#8211; Chicago-based magazine and soon-to-be book press
thebookslut &#8211; Bookslut&#8217;s Jessa Crispin
Urrealism &#8211; Chicago author Luis Urrea 
wickedpen &#8211; Kristy Bowen, owner of Dancing Girl Press
And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featherproof on Tour</title>
		<link>http://publishchicago.com/2009/06/16/featherproof-on-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[featherproof]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You won&#8217;t want to miss this summer&#8217;s literature packed tour from Featherproof Books, Chicago&#8217;s indie superstar in the publishing world.  Their Dollar Store Summer Tour of Awesomeness (their title, not mine) will kick off at The Hideout on June 28th from 1-6 pm.  For $8 dollars you&#8217;ll hear readings from over twenty authors, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grow</title>
		<link>http://publishchicago.com/2009/03/31/grow-2/</link>
		<comments>http://publishchicago.com/2009/03/31/grow-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[featherproof]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green books]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Grow is a &#8220;squeaky-green&#8221; children&#8217;s book.  According to the liner notes, Beaton and Bradley used &#8220;the greenest&#8221; local printer and &#8220;enlisted a group of excellent graphic design students to hand-bind the book,&#8221; both exceptionally worthy causes.  Featherproof publishes the book, so they&#8217;re local as well.  Each set of heavy paper-board pages features, on the left [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Jonathan Messinger at The Scowl</title>
		<link>http://publishchicago.com/2009/03/17/interview-with-jonathan-messinger-at-the-scowl/</link>
		<comments>http://publishchicago.com/2009/03/17/interview-with-jonathan-messinger-at-the-scowl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[featherproof]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Featherproof&#8217;s co-publisher Jonathan Messinger speaks about the much talked-about Paper Egg Books, working as an independent publisher and digital publishing as the way of the future over at The Scowl.
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		<title>Featherproof&#8217;s Free Mini-Books</title>
		<link>http://publishchicago.com/2009/02/23/featherproofs-free-mini-books/</link>
		<comments>http://publishchicago.com/2009/02/23/featherproofs-free-mini-books/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[featherproof]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Featherproof has all kinds of interesting and innovative things going on.  We recently ran a piece on their new press Paper Egg Books, and now we&#8217;re reviewing their free mini-books.
The mini-books at Featherproof are short stories (often VERY short, e.g. 300-3,000 words) from both famous and unknown authors that are formatted in such a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featherproof Starts Subscription-Based Press</title>
		<link>http://publishchicago.com/2009/02/20/featherproof-starts-subscription-based-press/</link>
		<comments>http://publishchicago.com/2009/02/20/featherproof-starts-subscription-based-press/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News and Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[featherproof]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Note from the editor:  this post has been revised.  
I just stumbled on this article at Publisher&#8217;s Weekly about a new press at Featherproof called Paper Egg Books.  Basically, you pay the press $20.00 upfront as a subscription fee (renewed every year unless you tell them otherwise, much like the CTA) and [...]]]></description>
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