Literature
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A story spanning nearly 6,000 miles: Stevenson senior, grandfather in China team up for bookOct 07, 2020 6:00 am - When schools closed in March due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Lily Jiang took the social isolation as an opportunity to reconnect with her roots by co-writing a bilingual b...
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Book review: Phil Klay's 'Missionaries' sees our forever wars as vocation
Oct 06, 2020 6:00 am - Phil Klay's "Missionaries" (Penguin) Phil Klay's "Redeployment" was a masterwork in mostly spare prose, its tonal range from laugh-out-loud, Joseph Helle...
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Review: 'Missionaries' sees our forever wars as vocation
Oct 05, 2020 7:00 am - Phil Klay's 'œMissionaries'ť (Penguin) Phil Klay's 'œRedeployment'ť was a masterwork in mostly spare prose, its tonal range from laugh-out-loud, Joseph Heller-esque absu...
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Review: French's 'The Searcher' offers vivid, poetic prose
Oct 05, 2020 7:00 am - 'œThe Searcher,'ť by Tana French (Viking) Cal Hooper, a Chicago cop whose wife has left him for reasons he does not yet understand, tells himself he's done with police w...
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Review: Dylan Farrow tries her hand at YA fantasy fiction
Oct 05, 2020 7:00 am - 'œHush,'ť by Dylan Farrow (Wednesday Books) Dylan Farrow is best known for accusing her adoptive father, Woody Allen, of molesting her when she was 7 in her mother Mia F...
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Q&A: Misty Copeland looks to her youth in new children's book, 'Bunheads'
Oct 04, 2020 7:29 am - NEW YORK - Misty Copeland has long told the story of the childhood ballet teacher who recognized her talent and took the young dancer, then 13, from the cramped motel ro...
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Book review: 'Ties That Tether' pits love against family
Oct 04, 2020 7:28 am - Jane Igharo's "Ties that Tether" (Penguin Random House) Jane Igharo's "Ties That Tether" tells the story of Azere, a Nigerian immigrant living in Canada ...
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Constable: Italian immigrant, U.S. Army veteran writes love story at age 87Oct 03, 2020 1:00 am - Even before he watched American soldiers drive the Nazis from his Italian village, Rocco Blasi dreamed of living in the United States. "It was something I wanted so badl...
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Award-winning local author brings it home to Nichols LibraryOct 01, 2020 1:00 am - Robert Fieseler grew up a quintessential Naperville kid. He rode bikes, played flashlight tag, and wished for snow days. In the days before standardized testing, he had ...
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Book Review: 'Ties That Tether' pits love against family
Sep 29, 2020 7:00 am - Jane Igharo's 'œTies that Tether'ť (Penguin Random House) Jane Igharo's 'œTies That Tether'ť tells the story of Azere, a Nigerian immigrant living in Canada who at 12, m...