Literature
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Geneva High School grad launches Feminist Romance PodcastJul 18, 2020 11:00 pm - Becca Grischow knew she was going to be a writer since she wrote her first poem as a first-grader at Western Avenue School in Geneva. It was only a few years later that ...
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Book review: Colin Jost on the end of his SNL run and his memoir, 'A Very Punchable Face'
Jul 18, 2020 7:28 am - "A Very Punchable Face" by Colin Jost (Crown) Most of the chapters in Colin Jost's memoir, "A Very Punchable Face," open with a pair of complementary quo...
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Constable: White author learned early how Black lives matterJul 18, 2020 1:00 am - As a white girl growing up in Arlington Heights in the 1950s and '60s, Patricia Hruby Powell was taught that Black Lives Matter long before that concept became a movemen...
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Side Street Studio Arts debuts 'The String,' a new monthly publicationJul 14, 2020 11:00 pm - Side Street Studio Arts in Elgin is starting "The String," a free monthly publication showcasing work inspired by and in response to the world around us. The aim is to c...
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Book review: Jim Carrey reveals himself in a novel in which he plays himself
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It's been an eventful year for Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead
Jul 12, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK — Even sheltering in place, Colson Whitehead has had an eventful year. Whitehead became the first fiction writer to win Pulitzers for back-to-back novels, “Unde...
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10 books to read in July
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Book review: Camilla Läckberg's 'The Golden Cage' is a psychological suspense story about vile people doing vile things
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Book review: 'Conspiracy' tells of gold rush and Gilded Age greed
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Review: 'Conspiracy' tells of gold rush and Gilded Age greed