<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>19</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">J Lepore</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Back Talk: Jill Lepore and Jane Kamensky</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Nation</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.thenation.com/article/back-talk-jill-lepore-and-jane-kamensky</style></url></web-urls></urls><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jill Lepore, a professor of history at Harvard, and Jane Kamensky, a professor of history at Brandeis, met as graduate students in the 1980s. In 2007, the two began to write a historical novel. The product of that collaboration, the occasionally racy Blindspot (Spiegel &amp; Grau, $24.95), tells the story of the portrait painter Stewart Jameson and his apprentice, &quot;Francis Weston,&quot; née Fanny Easton, the disguised daughter of a prominent Bostonian. Lepore and Kamensky compiled glossaries, consulted collections of urban slang and lifted freely from eighteenth-century sources. With each in charge of one narrator--Lepore wrote Jameson's chapters, Kamensky Easton's letters--the two volleyed passages back and forth, like &quot;a tennis game.&quot;--Christine Smallwood</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">February 2 issue</style></notes></record></records></xml>