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		<title>A New Home for The Spectacled Bear</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Urso de Óculos has a new website, with a blog of its own, and a new section dedicated to The Spectacled Bear. So, we&#8217;re moving. Hope you can come too, and that you like the new home!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespectacledbear.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1338819&amp;post=194&amp;subd=thespectacledbear&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brazilian translator of Jane Austen novel accused of plagiarism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, I wrote this post about the launch of several new Portuguese parallel text editions of English classic titles. Among them was Jane Austen&#8217;s Persuasion, with a Brazilian Portuguese translation signed by Fábio Cyrino, editorial director of Landmark Press. I still &#8230; <a href="http://thespectacledbear.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/brazilian-translator-of-jane-austen-novel-accused-of-plagiarism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespectacledbear.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1338819&amp;post=135&amp;subd=thespectacledbear&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Clarice Lispector Collection</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[    Would Clarice Lispector get a blog commission if she were alive today? This was my first thought when I started reading A Descoberta do Mundo, a collection of articles by Lispector commissioned for the Jornal do Brasil between 1967 and &#8230; <a href="http://thespectacledbear.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/122/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespectacledbear.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1338819&amp;post=122&amp;subd=thespectacledbear&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vinicius and his chair</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Spectacled Bear, thought by many to be close to extinction, is now back. Since my last post, I have been busy developing the bookstore, the translation career, plus plenty of sport and other healthy diversions!  But in my absence &#8230; <a href="http://thespectacledbear.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/vinicius-and-his-chair/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespectacledbear.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1338819&amp;post=108&amp;subd=thespectacledbear&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Bookshop News Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re wondering how the first Literary Thursday went, you can find out and read all the other latest news from the bookshop on the all new Urso de Óculos news blog. I decided to put all the news from &#8230; <a href="http://thespectacledbear.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/new-bookshop-news-blog/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespectacledbear.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1338819&amp;post=107&amp;subd=thespectacledbear&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Thursdays in Itacaré</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, Journalist and Cultural Events Organizer Juliana Machado is re-launching a project she started in 2006 in Itacaré, this time round in collaboration with our bookshop. From today until the end of 2008, every week Juliana will present &#8220;Literary Thursday&#8221; at &#8230; <a href="http://thespectacledbear.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/literary-thursdays-in-itacare/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespectacledbear.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1338819&amp;post=103&amp;subd=thespectacledbear&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why are books so expensive in Brazil?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a question I have been asked many times. A possible answer, according to Tyler Cowen of the blog Marginal Revolution, is that Most Brazilians do not read. Cowen&#8217;s post &#8220;Why are books so outrageously expensive in Brazil?&#8221; offers up three &#8230; <a href="http://thespectacledbear.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/why-are-books-so-expensive-in-brazil/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespectacledbear.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1338819&amp;post=101&amp;subd=thespectacledbear&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Latest Nick Hornby novel launched in Brazil</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 21:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rocco has just launched the Brazilian version of the latest book by Nick Hornby &#8211; one of my favourite British writers. It&#8217;s called Slam and it&#8217;s about a sixteen year old skateboarder in London. My copy of the original in &#8230; <a href="http://thespectacledbear.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/latest-nick-hornby-novel-launched-in-brazil/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespectacledbear.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1338819&amp;post=98&amp;subd=thespectacledbear&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Urso de Óculos: Bookshop now Open!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am delighted to announce that The Spectacled Bear&#8217;s very own bricks and mortar bookshop is now open. Actually, the shop opened a few months ago, but the website has only just moved beyond its previous bear-cub status. It is &#8230; <a href="http://thespectacledbear.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/urso-de-oculos-bookshop-now-open/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespectacledbear.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1338819&amp;post=93&amp;subd=thespectacledbear&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bahia&#8217;s most famous son gets new image</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jorge Amado has been re-branded. São Paulo publisher Companhia das Letras has released the first part of their series of new editions of all Jorge Amado&#8216;s books, with beautiful new book designs and afterwords by Milton Hatoum, Mia Couto and Ana Maria &#8230; <a href="http://thespectacledbear.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/bahias-most-famous-son-gets-new-image/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespectacledbear.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1338819&amp;post=89&amp;subd=thespectacledbear&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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