Literature
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'The Recovering' shatters addiction and recovery myths
Apr 16, 2018 7:00 am - "The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath" (Little, Brown and Co.), by Leslie Jamison With a somber tone, intricate detail and multilayered storytelling, Leslie Ja...
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Third-place, visual art: 'Dazed and Confused"Apr 16, 2018 6:00 am - ...
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'Rocket Men' author stops in Highwood ThursdayApr 16, 2018 6:00 am - “Rocket Men” by Robert Kurson, Random House, 384 pages, robertkurson.com/ The first astronauts to orbit the moon ended their 1968 Christmas Eve television broad...
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Third place, poetryApr 16, 2018 6:00 am - They said the first woman was born from the rib of her husband. But I don't think that's true It is just a title born of later incarnations. Because the first woman neve...
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Third-place winner, prose: 'German Day'Apr 16, 2018 6:00 am - At seventeen, being squeezed, bumped, and jostled, I've been more intimate with strangers on a crowded Berlin bus than I have with anyone else. I strain to decipher the...
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Celebrating the arts: Third place winners in Arts Unlimited contestApr 16, 2018 6:00 am - On Thursday and Sunday we shared the first- and second-place winners of the Arts Unlimited District 214/Daily Herald Community Arts and Writing Contest. Today, we are pr...
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Celebrate art at Fox River Arts Ramble April 21Apr 15, 2018 11:00 pm - Lovers of art are invited to spend a day exploring galleries and studios throughout the Fox Valley at the Fox River Arts Ramble. The Ramble is a one-day self-guided tour...
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Author events: Meet Natalie Morales, Lidia Bastianich, Robert Kurson this weekApr 15, 2018 7:29 am - Christina Lauren: 2 p.m. Sunday, April 15, at Anderson's Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville, (630) 355-2665 or andersonsbookshop.com/. Meet New York Times best-...
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Friendship becomes something more in 'Love and Other Words'Apr 15, 2018 7:00 am - “Love and Other Words” by Christina Lauren, Gallery Books, 432 pages, christinalaurenbooks.com/books/ Who hasn't wondered at one time or another about his or he...
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Second place, poetry: 'Take, Eat'Apr 15, 2018 6:00 am - A girl kneels on an asphalt driveway full of cracks, a little concrete, a sweep of grass, a plastic swing, and a string of three aloe plants in a dry dirt planter....