<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-29/westmont-news/novelist-hansen-speak-reading-series.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>03/13/2013</pubDate><title>Novelist Hansen to Speak at Reading Series</title><excerpt>Novelist Ron Hansen, author of “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” helps launch the Westmont Reading Series on Wednesday, March 27, at 8 p.m. in Fleischmann Auditorium at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. The event is free and open to the public.</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
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