Literature
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Book notes: Meet Pulitzer Prize winner Julia KellerAug 31, 2013 6:00 am - 타 Meet Jordan Sonnenblick, author of the new young adult novel “Are You Experienced?”ashe discusses his writing and signs copies of his works at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept....
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'Night Film' is a gothic thrillerAug 31, 2013 6:00 am - When reclusive director Stanislas Cordova's beautiful 24-year-old daughter Ashley is found dead under mysterious circumstances, grizzled investigative journalist Scott M...
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Streamwood man celebrates new comic bookAug 30, 2013 9:06 am - Award-winning comic book creator and Streamwood resident Art Baltazar will celebrate the release of his new all-ages book, “Itty Bitty Hellboy,” Saturday, Aug. 31, at Aw...
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Fox Valley Folk fest adds Saturday showsAug 28, 2013 2:39 pm - Illinois’ largest folk festival is about to get larger. This year, the Fox Valley Folk Music and Storytelling Festival will expand its offerings with concert stages in ...
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Kerouac’s ‘Mexican Girl’ brought to lifeAug 28, 2013 11:00 am - As Jack Kerouac described her, she was “the cutest little Mexican girl” who happened across his path at a bus stop in Bakersfield, Calif., and became “Terry” in his clas...
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Caitlin Strong returns in 'Strong Rain Falling'Aug 27, 2013 6:00 am - The first four novels in Jon Land's Caitlin Strong series read like episodes from the “Die Hard” franchise, with the swaggering, trigger-happy female Texas Ranger standi...
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New fall novels for Gilbert, King and FieldingAug 26, 2013 1:59 pm - NEW YORK — Elizabeth Gilbert spent enough years as a memoir writer, and had so much success, that even her admirers forget that she started out in fiction. “For all inte...
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Farmers’ Almanac: Super Bowl may be ‘Storm Bowl’Aug 26, 2013 6:49 am - LEWISTON, Maine — The Farmers’ Almanac is using words like “piercing cold,” “bitterly cold” and “biting cold” to describe the upcoming winter. And if its predictions are...
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New biography claims more Salinger books due outAug 25, 2013 5:21 pm - NEW YORK — The authors of a new J.D. Salinger biography are claiming they have cracked one of publishing’s greatest mysteries: What “The Catcher in the Rye” novelist was...
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Clark Howard's new book on how to part the red-ink seaAug 25, 2013 7:00 am - NEW YORK — I'm pretty terrible with money. At this writing I have $170.40 to my name, which will be gone by the time you read this. I have a patchwork income derived fro...