Literature
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'Carnival of Losses' is Hall's final volume of essays
Jul 09, 2018 7:00 am - "A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), by Donald Hall A few years ago, Donald Hall wrote a book called "Essays After Eighty" about the...
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Review: Anne Tyler's new novel is about second chances
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Review: 'A Terrible Country' is a wonderful novel
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Author events: Meet best-selling author Madeline Miller in NapervilleJul 08, 2018 7:28 am - W. Bruce Cameron: 2 p.m. Sunday, July 8, at Anderson's Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville, (630) 355-2665, andersonsbookshop.com/. Meet the best-selling author ...
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Film favorites Sterling Hayden, Bruce Lee shine in new booksJul 07, 2018 7:00 am - “Bruce Lee: A Life” by Matthew Polly; Simon & Schuster; 656 pages “Sterling Hayden's Wars” by Lee Mandel; University Press of Mississippi; 368 pages Martial ar...
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Western-themed 'The Taming of the Shrew' in Geneva July 7Jul 02, 2018 11:00 pm - You would be hard pressed to think of two types of entertainment more different from an old TV Western broadcast on the tube and a Shakespeare play performed on the stag...
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Film favorites Bruce Lee, Sterling Hayden shine in new books
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Review: A sense of sadness permeates 'It All Falls Down'
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Review: Dan Fesperman's 'Safe Houses' is superior thriller
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Put down the phone, look at the world around you, waste a little timeJul 02, 2018 6:00 am - “In Praise of Wasting Time” By Alan Lightman; TED Books/Simon & Schuster; 102 pages; $16.99 --- Do you do calf stretches while you are brushing your teeth? Listen t...