Literature
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Evan Wright's 'Hella Nation' portrays America
Apr 07, 2009 11:00 pm - In the first chapter of Evan Wright's "Hella Nation," American troops stationed in Afghanistan are easily conned by an Afghan translator into believing the former-Taliba...
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2 posthumous Michael Crichton releases planned
Apr 05, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Two new Michael Crichton novels, one of them unfinished, have been scheduled for release. Publisher HarperCollins announced Monday that "Pirate Latitudes," a...
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Long Grove hosting confectioner's Easter carnivalApr 04, 2009 11:00 pm - Freebie! Chocolate galore! Find out some of the secrets to making delectable chocolate treats during the Long Grove Confectionery's Easter Carnival and Open House. Guest...
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Book notesApr 02, 2009 11:00 pm - • "Nico and Lola" author Meggan Hill reads from and signs copies of her book at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 4, at Anderson's Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville. (63...
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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...