Literature
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'Batman 'producer explains his road to film successJun 28, 2012 11:00 pm - Michael Uslan recalled a cold night in January 1966 to a rapt audience at Harper College. Uslan, 13 at the time, was eagerly anticipating a watershed moment in his life:...
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Cronkite book excels at telling it the way it wasJun 27, 2012 6:00 am - Memo to bloggers: Earning the title “most trusted man in America” doesn't happen overnight. For longtime “CBS Evening News” anchor Walter Cronkite, decades spent reporti...
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First Folio season to include 'Poe' revivalJun 26, 2012 11:00 pm - First Folio Theatre in Oak Brook has announced its lineup for the 2012-13 season. First on the docket is a revival of executive director David Rice's critical hit “The ...
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Nora Ephron, writer-filmmaker, dies at 71Jun 26, 2012 6:00 pm - NEW YORK — Among the injustices about the death of Nora Ephron is that she isn't around to tell us about it. "She was so, so alive," says her friend Carrie Fisher. "It m...
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Book details history of Obama's early lifeJun 26, 2012 11:00 am - If nothing else, Barack Obama's presidency has been a boon for the publishing industry. Beyond his own best-selling books (“Dreams From My Father,” “The Audacity of Hope...
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Still flying: A cultural history of SupermanJun 26, 2012 6:00 am - Superman started as a reject. Writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster were two naive kids from Cleveland who repeatedly failed to get anyone to take a chance on their...
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Batavia author: Obama argues like Abe LincolnJun 25, 2012 11:00 pm - Type Abraham Lincoln into an Internet search engine these days and you'll be treated to the big-screen story of our president's fictional past as a vampire hunter wieldi...
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‘Another Monster:” iPad app or book?Jun 23, 2012 6:22 am - When is a book no longer a book? I wasn’t expecting to have my mind blown by the iPad app of the children’s story “Another Monster at the End of This Book.” The tale, o...
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'Strindberg's Star' is intriguing thrill rideJun 22, 2012 6:00 am - World War II, Jules Verne and secret societies mesh in journalist Jan Wallentin's debut thriller, “Strindberg's Star.” Erik Hall loves to cave dive. He learns of an aban...
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Books crack tech mysteries of food scienceJun 21, 2012 3:44 pm - You may not aspire to the culinary theatrics performed by the wizards of modernist cuisine — transparent ravioli? edible balloons? — but your cooking probably still coul...