Literature
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You vote on who had the best book in national award's 60-year history
Sep 21, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The National Book Awards would like your vote. Organizers of the prestigious literary prize are asking the public to choose the best fiction winner in the aw...
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New Dan Brown novel tops 2 million mark
Sep 21, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Dan Brown's new novel has passed the 2 million mark and bested Bill Clinton's "My Life" in the record books. Doubleday announced Tuesday that hardcover, audi...
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Memoir recalls an Arlington Hts. childhoodSep 18, 2009 11:00 pm - An Arlington Heights man living in the split level his parents built in 1962 in the Greenbrier neighborhood has written a book about growing up in the suburbs. It's all ...
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Oprah Winfrey chooses short story collection
Sep 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Oprah Winfrey has blessed the book world's eternal underdog: the short story. Publishing's surest hitmaker announced Friday that her latest pick was Uwem Akpan's debut c...
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Author appearances and book signingsSep 17, 2009 11:00 pm - • Colin Beavan, author of "No Impact Man," will read from and sign copies of his book at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, at Anderson's Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperv...
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'Runaway Dream' looks at the power of Springsteen
Sep 16, 2009 11:00 pm - Even before its release on Aug. 25, 1974, Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" held the stuff of rock myth. Springsteen, just 24 at the time, had already released two album...
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Freemasons await Dan Brown novel 'The Lost Symbol'
Sep 15, 2009 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The lodge room of the Naval Masonic Hall is a colorful and somewhat inscrutable sight for the nonmember, with its blue walls, Egyptian symbols, checkered f...
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'American on Purpose': Craig Ferguson's new memoir
Sep 14, 2009 11:00 pm - Just who does this chap think he is? Craig Ferguson, by his own account, is a Scotsman with a brogue and excellent teeth. A former punk-rock drummer. A recovering alcoho...
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Arlington Hts. dad turns dinner chats into 'Guide to Life' bookSep 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Dinner at the Rosenbaum house was never quick. Until the kids moved out, the Arlington Heights family of four used dinnertime as a time to talk - often for hours - about...
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'Hook & Jill' author coming to NapervilleSep 10, 2009 11:00 pm - • Meet author Andrea Jones as she reads from and signs copies of her novel "Hook & Jill," a grown-up vision of "Peter Pan," at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at Borders, 336...