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Please join us tonight for an ALAN Online BookChat to dis­cuss Robert Lipsyte’s RAIDERS NIGHT. A sched­ule of future ALAN BookChats is avail­able at http://tinyurl.com/2l2qu5 Date: Wednes­day, 8/15/07 Time: 9:00 PM East­ern URL: http://alan-ya.org/bookchat/flashchat.php More about the novel: “The pres­sure is on. At Near­mont High School, foot­ball stars are treated like roy­alty, and Matt Rydek has just …

Despite your keen­ing whine that J.K. Rowl­ing is a deriv­a­tive, unimag­i­na­tive, bloated, xeno­pho­bic writer, when you and I are dead and buried, mil­lions will still be read­ing the Harry Pot­ter books.  Keep that in mind, will you? PS.  Does any­one know a recipe for mak­ing wine out of sour grapes?