Literature
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'Collaboration' looks at Nazis influence on HollywoodSep 21, 2013 6:00 am - Using the loaded word “collaboration” to link Adolf Hitler and Hollywood may be interpreted by readers as a charge that the movie industry aided America's enemy. Author ...
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Pynchon’s ‘Bleeding Edge’ looks back to 2001Sep 20, 2013 6:00 am - Thomas Pynchon’s latest book, “Bleeding Edge,” begins in New York in the spring of 2001, before Sept. 11 but after the dot-com bubble has burst, leaving Manhattan’s Sili...
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Book notes: Meet ‘Days’ stars at Naperville’s Anderson’sSep 20, 2013 6:00 am - Ÿ Adam Selzer discusses and signs copies of his book “Ghosts of Chicago” at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 22, at Centuries and Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park...
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Coulter, Ellison thrill in 'The Final Cut'Sep 20, 2013 6:00 am - What happens when you mix Catherine Coulter, a best-selling author of FBI procedurals, and J.T. Ellison, an award-winning writer of chilling thrillers involving a female...
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Columbia U. sociologist goes 'rogue' in New York CitySep 17, 2013 6:00 am - A crack dealer. A madam. A porn store clerk. Those are just some of the characters that sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh introduces in his latest book, “Floating City.” Stud...
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Author Daniel Woodrell changes literary directionsSep 16, 2013 5:59 am - WEST PLAINS, Mo. — Daniel Woodrell awoke from colon cancer surgery a few years ago a changed man. Or at least a changed writer. At the time, Woodrell was finally getting...
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Judges sides with Armstrong in book lawsuitSep 10, 2013 8:57 pm - AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge in California sided with Lance Armstrong and the publishers of his autobiographies on Tuesday, rejecting claims in a lawsuit that lies ab...
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Billy Crystal looks back on his lifeSep 10, 2013 11:00 am - Billy Crystal looks back on his life and career in “Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys?” He writes in such a relaxed sty...
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Sophie Hannah to pen new ‘Agatha Christie’ novelSep 07, 2013 6:49 am - LONDON — Here’s one mystery solved: Sophie Hannah is the crime writer given the formidable and most likely lucrative task of reviving Agatha Christie’s famed detective, ...
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Hurwitz delivers exciting ‘Tell No Lies’Sep 06, 2013 6:00 am - A race to stop a killer begins when a piece of mail is delivered to the wrong person in “Tell No Lies,” the latest thriller from Gregg Hurwitz. Daniel Brasher gave up a...