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After playing Weird Barbie, Kate McKinnon’s new children’s book also celebrates being uniquely you

By ALICIA RANCILIO
Oct 01, 2024 12:44 pm - If you find it odd that Kate McKinnon chose her first book to be for middle-grade kids, the former “Saturday Night Live” star says, think again. Find out why when she hosts a sold-out author event Thursday, Oct. 3, at the Tivoli Theatre in Downers Grove.
Book Review: Louise Erdrich writes about love and loss in North Dakota in ‘The Mighty Red’

By ROB MERRILL
Sep 30, 2024 6:27 pm - Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich returns with a story close to her heart, “The Mighty Red.” Set in the author’s native North Dakota, the title refers to the river that serves as a metaphor for life in the Red River Valley. It also carries a secret central to the story’s plot.
Book Review: ‘The Last Dream,’ short stories scattered with the seeds of Pedro Almodovar films

By ANITA SNOW
Sep 30, 2024 6:18 pm - The seeds of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar’s later cinematic work are scattered throughout the pages of “The Last Dream,” his newly published collection of short writings.
‘I’m just a storyteller’: Meet the St. Charles retiree turned murder mystery author

By Dave Heun
Sep 27, 2024 3:30 am - Glynn Amburgey of St. Charles has written three murder mysteries since retiring from his job at the city of St. Charles in 2012.
Kim Porter’s children say she didn’t write bestselling memoir about Diddy

By KAITLYN HUAMANI
Sep 25, 2024 2:48 pm - Although it’s a bestseller on Amazon, the late Kim Porter did not write a tell-all memoir detailing an abusive relationship with her longtime partner Sean “Diddy” Combs, her children said in a statement Tuesday.
It’s Banned Books Week. LGBTQ+ content tops the most-challenged list.

Niha Masih
Sep 24, 2024 3:05 pm - The attempts to censor, restrict or ban books in 2024 in the United States continued to surpass pre-pandemic levels, while books with LGBTQ+ themes dominate the most-chal...
Book Review: Crystal King combines food, myths and surrealism with ‘In the Garden of Monsters’

By DONNA EDWARDS
Sep 23, 2024 3:47 pm - Salvador Dali hires a young artist with a striking similarity to the goddess Proserpina to model for him in the Sacro Bosco, a mystical garden almost as surreal as Dali h...
Stephen & Evie Colbert offer a cookbook that’s also a window into their lives

By MARK KENNEDY
Sep 23, 2024 1:57 pm - Many years into their marriage, Stephen and Evie Colbert suddenly became co-workers. And that is why, in a roundabout way, we have their first cookbook.
Why this book is flying off the shelves at Arlington Heights library

By Christopher Placek
Sep 18, 2024 5:47 pm - “The Collected Regrets of Clover” is being checked out at record speed at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library compared to past One Book, One Village selections, officials say.
Literary connections: A focus on books at this year’s Bluff City Cemetery Walk

Submitted by Bluff City Cemetery Walk
Sep 18, 2024 10:01 am - The 37th annual Bluff City Cemetery Walk on Sept. 21-22 is celebrating the 150th anniversary of Gail Borden Public Library. The Elginites selected have an association to either literacy, books, or Gail Borden. Each portrayal will include suggestions on what that Elginite’s favorite book might have been.

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