Literature
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Memoir provides fitting glimpse into reporter's lifeApr 03, 2012 6:00 am - It's nearly impossible to read Anthony Shadid's memoir, “House of Stone,” without thinking about the author's recent death, which occurred prematurely and tragically in ...
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Hemingway shows soft side in newly public lettersMar 31, 2012 6:53 am - BOSTON — Ernest Hemingway shows a tenderness that wasn’t part of his usual macho persona in a dozen unpublished letters that became publicly available Wednesday in a col...
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Des Plaines Marine honored for poetryMar 29, 2012 5:16 pm - Robert A. Hall of Des Plaines has been awarded the 2012 Robert A. Gannon Award, given for a distinguished volume of original verse by a Marine poet dealing with Marine C...
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'Truth' is intense historical thriller'Mar 29, 2012 6:00 am - Kieran Shields creates a pitch-perfect atmosphere in “The Truth of All Things,” a tale set in Portland, Maine, during the summer of 1892. Two hundred years earlier in Sa...
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Des Plaines city attorney announces retirementMar 28, 2012 11:00 am - Longtime Des Plaines City Attorney Dave Wiltse announced his retirement Tuesday at a senior staff meeting. Wiltse is retiring June 29 after more than 18 years of working...
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Harry Potter breaks e-book lockdownMar 27, 2012 6:22 pm - NEW YORK — When the Harry Potter books finally went on sale in electronic form on Tuesday, it was as if Harry himself had cast the “Alohomora” spell on them — the one th...
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Book notes: Meet author of 'Stone Brewing Co.'Mar 25, 2012 11:00 pm - • Author Greg Koch, CEO and co-founder of the Stone Brewing Company, discusses the craft brewing industry at 6 p.m. Friday, March 30, at the Cultural & Civic Center of R...
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Book notes: Carl Hiaasen signs at Anderson's TuesdayMar 23, 2012 6:00 am - Ÿ Meet author Ellen Hopkins as she reads from and signs copies of her titles “Perfect,” a novel for teens, and “Triangles” for adults at 7 p.m. Friday, March 23, at Ande...
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Kevin Smith offers life advice in new bookMar 22, 2012 6:00 am - Film director and comic-book geek extraordinaire Kevin Smith dispenses wisdom in his new book, a touching reflection on his life and career. Smith, director of “Clerks,”...
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'3rd Rock From the Sun' actress spills her 'Guts'Mar 21, 2012 6:00 am - Kristen Johnston is best known as the brash, tough-talking alien in “3rd Rock From the Sun,” which aired on NBC from 1996 to 2001. But that character's toughness has not...