Literature
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Glen Ellyn Bookfest attracts local authors, readersJun 14, 2011 11:00 pm - Never claim to have written the next Harry Potter, but make sure to relate your book to works everyone knows. Be creative and informative but not bizarre. Don't tell peo...
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'Poisoned' explores deadly fast-food contaminationJun 14, 2011 1:00 am - An exploration of the 1990s meat contamination case that brought Jack in the Box to its knees reveals the personal costs to families whose children ate bad hamburgers, b...
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'Misery Bay' a triumphant return for McKnightJun 12, 2011 11:00 pm - Alex McKnight is having a beer at his favorite Northern Michigan haunt when his nemesis, chief Roy Maven of the Sault Ste. Marie police, pops in. McKnight figures they'r...
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Reception, poetry to open new NWCC exhibitJun 11, 2011 12:00 am - An artists’ reception and poetry reading will be held from 1-3 p.m. Saturday, June 18, at the gallery space at Arlington Green Executive Centre, 2101 S. Arlington Height...
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Book notes: Lisa See comes to Naperville, GurneeJun 08, 2011 11:00 pm - Ÿ The Book Stall at Chestnut Court hosts a book release party for author Julie Halpern's new novel for teens, “Don't Stop Now,” at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 11. Halpern will...
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Fanboy goes to Hollywood in Simon Pegg's memoirJun 08, 2011 2:00 pm - LONDON — A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away — the west of England in the 1970s — there lived a boy named Simon Pegg. He loved zombies, "The Six Million Dollar Man...
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Patchett's latest set deep in Amazon jungleJun 07, 2011 1:00 am - Dr. Marina Singh is an Indian-American doctor employed by a pharmaceutical company that has been spending buckets of money to develop what it hopes will be a miracle fer...
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Author's job of balancing nature and suburbs mirrors ThoreauJun 06, 2011 12:00 am - When author Tom Montgomery Fate talks about working on his new book during one of his solitary nights in the cabin his family helped build in the Michigan woods, it's ea...
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Book notes: Berenstain Bears author at Anderson'sJun 02, 2011 11:00 pm - Ÿ On Tuesday, June 7, Anderson's Bookshop in Naperville hosts the Dark Days of Summer Tour, featuring five authors of books for young adults: Veronica Roth (“Divergent”)...
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Loehfelm's thrilling 'Devil She Knows' another winnerMay 31, 2011 11:00 pm - Maureen Coughlin, a 29-year-old cocktail waitress at a seedy Staten Island bar, has dropped out of college and is lying to her mother about it. She tells herself she's s...