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'I Drink for a Reason' amuses, but lacks punch

Associated Press
Sep 01, 2009 11:00 pm - The problem with pulling a comedy act off the stage and onto the page is simple: Context gets lost. This is a problem for David Cross, whose ranting, angry invective is ...
'Magicians' is story of postmodern wizard

Associated Press
Aug 31, 2009 11:00 pm - So, maybe you've heard a story or two about a young wizard who harnesses his power at a school of magic. But, oh, Harry Potter fans, you haven't heard THIS one. "The Mag...
Buffalo Grove Days feature carnival, entertainment, art and food

Aug 29, 2009 11:00 pm - Freebie Buffalo Grove Days The annual Buffalo Grove Days celebration features a carnival, entertainment, food, arts and crafts, a beer garden, parade and fireworks. Othe...
Russo's 'Cape Magic' doesn't live up to 'Empire Falls'

Associated Press
Aug 24, 2009 11:00 pm - One of the ideas at the core of Richard Russo's latest novel is that happiness is "a place you could visit but never own." For Jack Griffin's miserable, ever-bickering p...
Karla Kuskin, children's book writer, dies at 77

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Aug 23, 2009 11:00 pm - SEATTLE -- Karla Kuskin, an only child who grew up to write and illustrate award-winning children's books with penetrating wit and concern for the character of her subje...
Tropper's new novel will make readers laugh

Associated Press
Aug 20, 2009 11:00 pm - Judd Foxman arrives home early to surprise his wife with a cake on her birthday. He can hear her in the bedroom, so he lights the candles and heads upstairs. But in Jona...
Joe Drape documents football in small-town Kansas

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Aug 19, 2009 11:00 pm - An East Coast sportswriter takes leave from his big city newspaper job, moves to America's heartland and endeavors to document a legendary high school football program. ...
Ward Just's 'Exiles' is story of lack of ambition

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Aug 19, 2009 11:00 pm - On the surface, Washington is a curious setting for a story that goes like this: A protagonist defined by his lack of ambition, forced to go on something like a journey ...
Archie-Veronica wedding story line irks collector

Associated Press
Aug 13, 2009 11:00 pm - DALLAS -- When comic book store owner Dave Luebke heard that after 67 years, the carrot-topped everyman of the comic world, Archie, was proposing to va-va-voomy rich gir...
Joyce Maynard's latest novel is a must-read

Associated Press
Aug 12, 2009 11:00 pm - It's the long Labor Day weekend in Holton Mills, N.H., in the mid-1980s, and 13-year-old Henry and his mother, Adele, have nothing special planned. That's not unusual. A...

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