Literature
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Francine Pascal, creator of beloved ‘Sweet Valley High’ books, dies at 92Jul 30, 2024 2:24 pm - Francine Pascal, a onetime soap opera writer whose “Sweet Valley High” novels and the ongoing adventures of twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield and other teens captivat...
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The somewhat definitive ranking of Emily Henry novels
Jul 25, 2024 2:20 pm - Emily Henry, then the author of solidly successful but quietly received YA fiction, had run out of things to say about teenagers when she started her first book for adult...
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Publisher plans massive ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ reprints to meet demand for VP candidate JD Vance’s book
Jul 25, 2024 9:44 am - Former President Donald Trump’s selection of JD Vance as his running mate has led to a surge in sales for “Hillbilly Elegy,” his best-selling memoir that came out in 2016.
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Melania Trump to tell her story in memoir, ‘Melania,’ scheduled for this fall
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Meet Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss at next ‘Date With History’ on Aug. 1Jul 24, 2024 2:22 pm - “Date with History” series on Aug. 1 features two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss on his book, “They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967.”
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Anderson’s Bookshop to host Aug. 16 event with author of ‘The Maid and the Crocodile’Jul 23, 2024 11:54 am - Jordan Ifueko, a Nigerian American writer of fantasy and young adult fiction, will be coming to Anderson's Bookshop in Downers Grove.
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Book Review: Call the script doctor! ‘Feh’ explores the toxic storyline of a religious educationJul 22, 2024 12:02 pm - Shalom Auslander’s “Feh” is a poignant, profane and scabrously funny exploration of the way that organized religion, but also scientists and philosophers, conspire to teach us that we are “feh,” a Yiddish expression of contempt.
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Book Review: The Knights of Camelot search for a new king in Lev Grossman’s ‘The Bright Sword’
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Book Review: East Texas P.I. turns vigilante in funny and savage ‘Sugar on the Bones’Jul 15, 2024 10:21 am - In Joe R. Lansdale’s “Sugar on the Bones,” the quirky characters are well drawn, the prose is tight, the pace is furious, the surprises keep coming and the violent climax is nothing less than savage.
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Viola Davis, James Patterson to collaborate on novel set in the contemporary, rural SouthJul 09, 2024 3:49 pm - An upcoming thriller about a female judge in the contemporary, rural South will have two very famous, and very different, authors: Oscar winner Viola Davis and mega-selling novelist James Patterson.