Literature
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Author takes deep dive into creation of TV show 'Friends'Sep 21, 2019 7:29 am - "Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era," by Saul Austerlitz; Dutton; 368 pages In 1994, NBC was trying to find a s...
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Author takes deep dive into creation of TV show "Friends"
Sep 17, 2019 7:00 am - "Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era," (Dutton), by Saul Austerlitz In 1994, NBC was trying to find a show that could pull in ra...
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Old-fashioned reporting most compelling aspect of 'She Said'
Sep 17, 2019 7:00 am - "She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement" (Penguin Press), by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey "She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment...
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Lisa Unger's 'The Stranger Inside' is psychological thriller
Sep 17, 2019 7:00 am - "The Stranger Inside," Park Row, by Lisa Unger A woman is forced to confront her past in Lisa Unger's latest psychological thriller, "The Stranger Inside." When Rain was...
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Review: Linwood Barclay's 'Elevator Pitch' is vivid story
Sep 17, 2019 7:00 am - "Elevator Pitch: a Novel" (William Morrow), by Linwood Barclay It first seems like an accident when a Manhattan office tower elevator smashes to the basement below, kill...
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Heroine yearns to build meaningful life in 'Single Thread'
Sep 17, 2019 7:00 am - "A Single Thread: a Novel," Viking, by Tracy Chevalier Violet Speedwell seems an unlikely heroine at the opening of Tracy Chevalier's "A Single Thread." She's moved 12 m...
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Actor Henry Winkler to discuss new book in Naperville Oct. 4Sep 17, 2019 6:00 am - New York Times bestselling author, actor, producer and director Henry Winkler will be in Naperville next month to discuss his new "Alien Superstar" middle-grade series o...
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Local author shares story of how a coach potato became a marathon runnerSep 16, 2019 11:00 pm - Crystal Lake, Ill. - How does a woman go from thinking a breakfast of champions is a half a pack of cigarettes and a pot of black coffee to running two or three marathon...
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Review: 'Letters from Hollywood' is a movie nerd's dream
Sep 16, 2019 7:00 am - "Letters from Hollywood: Inside the Private World of Classic American Moviemaking," published by Abrams, compiled and edited by Rocky Lang and Barbara Hall Paul Newman p...
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Atwood's 'The Testaments' takes readers on wild ride
Sep 16, 2019 7:00 am - "The Testaments" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), by Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood wrote her much-anticipated sequel to "The Handmaid's Tale" in a number of places, like "th...