Literature
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Author delivers 'Star Wars' tour de forceSep 29, 2014 11:30 am - Chris Taylor, deputy editor of the social media website Mashable, lets his geekdom shine with “How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a M...
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Book notes: Diane Muldrow discusses her books in LibertyvilleSep 27, 2014 6:30 am - • Meet "The Fourteenth Goldfish" author Jennifer Holm as she discusses and signs copies of her middle reader book at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, at Anderson's Bookshop, 123...
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Brilliant new biography of Tennessee WilliamsSep 27, 2014 6:30 am - When “The Glass Menagerie” opened on Broadway in March 1945, the actress cast as Southern matriarch Amanda Wingfield got so drunk before the show that a bucket was place...
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'Do Fathers Matter?' says something newSep 26, 2014 5:45 am - From the tiniest microbe or fragment of DNA to the origins of the universe, it sometimes feels as if every subject generates a vast tide of scientific studies and that v...
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Easy Rawlins eyes Hearst-like caseSep 24, 2014 5:30 am - Walter Mosley evokes the curious turns of the Patty Hearst kidnapping saga and the fractured culture of that era in “Rose Gold,” his latest Easy Rawlins crime thrill...
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Best-selling book 'The Fault in Our Stars' banned from middle schoolsSep 24, 2014 1:01 am - RIVERSIDE, Calif. - The best-selling book "The Fault in Our Stars," narrated by a 16-year-old cancer patient, has been banned from Riverside Unified School District midd...
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Hulu to make Stephen King's '11/22/63' into a miniseriesSep 23, 2014 10:15 am - LOS ANGELES — Stephen King's time-travel novel about the Kennedy assassination is being adapted as a small-screen miniseries. Streaming service Hulu said Monday that the...
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Book series explores the supernatural in ElginSep 22, 2014 11:00 pm - The Elgin Area Historical Society Museum, located in Old Main on the campus of Elgin Academy, 316 Park St., will be the setting for the formal launch of a six-volume com...
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Women in politics: Gillibrand and Davis memoirsSep 20, 2014 6:45 am - Two prominent women in politics, New Yorker Kirsten Gillibrand, who replaced Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate, and Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis, who shot ...
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Book notes: Jim Peterik signs new book in Glen EllynSep 20, 2014 6:15 am - • Photographer/author Seth Casteel discusses and signs copies of his new book of photos, "Underwater Puppies," at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22, at Anderson's Bookshop, 123 W....