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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>The XX Factor : Laura Miller</title><link>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/Laura+Miller/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Laura Miller</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.2)</generator><item><title>The Daughters of Buffy</title><link>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2009/06/23/the-daughters-of-buffy.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:14:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b38b617e-fbf1-4816-b2a6-f11ec83af8cb:5943</guid><dc:creator>Nina Shen Rastogi</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/comments/5943.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/commentrss.aspx?PostID=5943</wfw:commentRss><description>Ask and ye shall receive. Just yesterday, some of us here at Double X were waxing nostalgic for Buffy the Vampire Slayer , and lo: Today, Salon book critic Laura Miller offers a run-down of "urban fantasy" novels whose heroines would make our dear, departed,...(&lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2009/06/23/the-daughters-of-buffy.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://www.slate.com/blogs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=5943" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/buffy+the+vampire+slayer/default.aspx">buffy the vampire slayer</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/Laura+Miller/default.aspx">Laura Miller</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/Romance+novels/default.aspx">Romance novels</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/sookie+stackhouse/default.aspx">sookie stackhouse</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/Tags_3A00_+anita+blake/default.aspx">Tags: anita blake</category></item><item><title>Her Great American Novel</title><link>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2009/02/27/her-great-american-novel.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:03:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b38b617e-fbf1-4816-b2a6-f11ec83af8cb:4775</guid><dc:creator>Susannah Breslin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/comments/4775.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/commentrss.aspx?PostID=4775</wfw:commentRss><description>" Why Can't a Woman Write the Great American Novel? " Others here have weighed in already on why the literary canon seems to be lacking when it comes to Great American Novels written by women. What struck me about Laura Miller's essay was the same line...(&lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2009/02/27/her-great-american-novel.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://www.slate.com/blogs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4775" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/feminism/default.aspx">feminism</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/writing/default.aspx">writing</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/salon/default.aspx">salon</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/Laura+Miller/default.aspx">Laura Miller</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/Elaine+Showalter/default.aspx">Elaine Showalter</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/women+writers/default.aspx">women writers</category></item><item><title>Women, Writing, and Work</title><link>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2009/02/24/women-writing-and-work.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:03:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b38b617e-fbf1-4816-b2a6-f11ec83af8cb:4716</guid><dc:creator>Nina Shen Rastogi</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/comments/4716.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/commentrss.aspx?PostID=4716</wfw:commentRss><description>Laura Miller at Salon has a great essay — provocatively titled, "Why can't a woman write the great American novel?"— on lit-crit rockstar Elaine Showalter's new book, A Jury of Her Peers , a mammoth study of American women writers. 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