Literature
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Actress/author Curtis to discuss book in NapervilleSep 16, 2010 11:00 pm - • Actress and best-selling author Jamie Lee Curtis discusses and signs copies of her newest children's book, "Mommy Hung the Moon," at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 17, at Anders...
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Oprah picks Franzen's 'Freedom' for book clubSep 15, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Oprah Winfrey has forgiven Jonathan Franzen. Nine years after picking Franzen's "The Corrections" for her book club and then canceling his appearance on her ...
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Cheap stuff: Arlington art, Woodstock fiddle contest, Day of PeaceSep 14, 2010 11:00 pm - $10 and under Arlington artists View the original works of 46 artists who live, work and enhance the arts within the community of Arlington Heights i...
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Vanity Fair reporter speaks out about Palin storySep 08, 2010 11:00 pm - KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The controversy over a Vanity Fair article about Sarah Palin continued Wednesday with the reporter disputing a conservative activist's claim that she...
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Jamie Lee Curtis returns to Anderson's BookshopSep 07, 2010 11:00 pm - To her youngest readers, Jamie Lee Curtis is "the book lady" who also sells yogurt on TV. And that suits the 51-year-old actress just fine. Her ninth children's book, "M...
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'Artemis Fowl' author Eoin Colfer in NapervilleSep 07, 2010 11:00 pm - • Anderson's Bookshop in Naperville hosts "Artemis Fowl" author Eoin Colfer as he presents the latest in the series "Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex" at 6:30 p.m. ...
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True stories invented: Tao Lin at workSep 05, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Tao Lin's new novel is based on a true story, his own. "It just started out of my life, what was happening to me," the 27-year-old author says of "Richard Ya...
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'Exile' is story of a love that transcends timeSep 02, 2010 11:00 pm - A pregnant and unwed Sara Stevenson is whisked off to Cape Wrath, a desolate area off the coast of Scotland, in Darci Hannah's debut novel. Set in 1814 in a country know...
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Chicago's Sara Paretsky publishes 14th Warshawski mysterySep 02, 2010 11:00 pm - Sara Paretsky's latest installment in her series about feisty, female private detective V.I. Warshawski opens with the heroine outside a Chicago nightclub, the bloody bo...
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'The Last Lie' is slow-moving story of deceitSep 01, 2010 11:00 pm - Stephen White has a story to tell. But he's not going to tell you until you spend hours listening to how he got there. "The Last Lie" is the 18th installment of White's ...