Literature
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Author events: Lidia Bastianich, Jason Segal sign books in suburbsNov 04, 2017 7:31 am - • Molly Page discusses and signs copies of her book "100 Things to Do in Chicago Before You Die" at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 6, at the Addison Public Library, 4 Friendship Pl...
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Top author Mitch Albom coming to Willow CreekNov 02, 2017 1:00 am - Best-selling author and Detroit-based newspaper columnist Mitch Albom will be featured at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington this weekend. Albom will ...
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Authors: Hillary Clinton, Denis Leary make local appearancesOct 28, 2017 7:31 am - • Former first lady, U.S. Senator, Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton discusses her book "What Happened" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. ...
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Long fingernails, dog tongue: Elgin photographer shoots it all for Guinness World RecordsOct 25, 2017 1:00 am - Mochi, a St. Bernard from South Dakota who has the longest tongue on a dog, loves peanut butter. Ayanna Wilson of Houston, Texas, who has the longest fingernails on a wo...
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John Grisham explores student loan debt in latest novel
Oct 24, 2017 7:00 am - "The Rooster Bar" (Doubleday), by John Grisham John Grisham explores student loan debt and the sharks that profit from it in his latest novel, "The Rooster Bar." Mark, T...
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Oakton to offer film, lecture on Anne FrankOct 23, 2017 11:00 pm - To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the first publication of the memoirs of a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust, Oakton Com...
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'Quick and Dirty' returns to Barrington's detective roots
Oct 23, 2017 7:00 am - "Quick & Dirty" (G.P. Putnam's Sons), by Stuart Woods Stone Barrington's newest "adventure," and that is, really, what this sophisticated, smart and well-heeled guy seek...
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Book Review: 'Way It Was' taps aging Sinatra's highs,
Oct 23, 2017 7:00 am - "The Way It Was: My Life with Frank Sinatra" (Hachette Books), by Eliot Weisman and Jennifer Valoppi Frank Sinatra's prime years as a singer were long behind him when El...
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Quiet on the set and elsewhere with Woody Allen
Oct 23, 2017 7:00 am - "Start to Finish: Woody Allen and the Art of Moviemaking" (Knopf), by Eric Lax If we had been allowed to watch God create the heavens and the Earth, we probably wouldn't...
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What John Grisham gets right about lawyers, the law in his latest novelOct 23, 2017 6:00 am - "The Rooster Bar," by John Grisham Doubleday, 368 pages, $28.95 --- One of one the things I didn't expect when I became a lawyer was just how much it would ruin leg...