Literature
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Ex-Fla. gov rides with killer in new Dorsey novel
Mar 31, 2009 11:00 pm - WELLINGTON, Fla. -- Former Gov. Claude Kirk knows it isn't a good idea to accept rides from strangers and quickly realizes his mistake as soon as he does. The driver beg...
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Bird, Johnson sparked the real Madness, and other sports storiesMar 26, 2009 11:00 pm - For a good swath of the country, the month of March is not a noun but an adjective, and the word that inevitably follows it is "Madness." Now, as the March Madness of co...
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Oates proves mastery again in story collection
Mar 24, 2009 11:00 pm - "I'm drawn to failure," Joyce Carol Oates once famously told an interviewer. "I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life." The latter statement might s...
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Leonid T. McGill makes for a good read
Mar 24, 2009 11:00 pm - Since his debut with "Devil in a Blue Dress" in 1990, Walter Mosley has created some of the most memorable characters in modern crime fiction: Easy Rawlins, Socrates For...
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Get the blues in Long Grove, or red-hot Hot Wheels in Carol StreamMar 24, 2009 11:00 pm - Cheap events? Contact Laura Stewart at lstewart@dailyherald.com Free 'The Tomato Lady' talks Aggie Nehmzow, a tomato expert known as "The Tomato Lady," discusse...
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New Al Gore book coming this fall
Mar 23, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Nobel laureate Al Gore's follow-up to his best-selling book "An Inconvenient Truth," originally planned for last spring, is coming out this fall with a new t...
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Pakistan author tells of ordinary in strange times
Mar 22, 2009 11:00 pm - RAHIMYAR KHAN DISTRICT, Pakistan -- When Daniyal Mueenuddin's father asked him to return to Pakistan and retrieve family farmland siphoned off by unscrupulous managers, ...
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Child psychologist contends Columbine shooters mentally ill
Mar 20, 2009 11:00 pm - OREFIELD, Pa. - Shortly after the massacre at Columbine High School, a question popped into Peter Langman's mind: What would possess a child to pick up a gun, take it to...
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Book notesMar 19, 2009 11:00 pm - • Actor and author Tony Curtis signs copies of his book, "American Prince: A Memoir," before two screenings of his 1959 film "Some Like It Hot" at 7 and 9 p.m. Friday, M...
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'World's smallest circus' coming to Round Lake areaMar 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Cheap events? Contact Laura Stewart at lstewart@dailyherald.com Free Calling all Jedi fans! "Star Wars" fans can don costumes of their favorite "Star Wars" char...