Literature
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Tolerance the word for engrossing 'People of the Book'Jan 10, 2008 10:00 pm - When the subject is genocide, readers tend to gravitate to the stories of survivors. It may be that people crave happy endings, but I prefer to think that you need a lit...
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Best sellersJan 10, 2008 10:00 pm - Fiction 1. Double Cross, James Patterson 2. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini 3. T is for Trespass, Sue Grafton 4. The Darkest Evening of the Year, Dean Koo...
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Pushing the line
Jan 03, 2008 10:00 pm - The city of Chicago plays such an integral role in Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski mysteries that it's hard to imagine her setting a novel anywhere else. But Paretsky go...
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Author appearancesJan 03, 2008 10:00 pm - • "The Sweet Far Thing" author Libba Bray reads from and signs copies of her book at 7 p.m. Jan. 7 at Anderson's Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville. (630) 355-2...
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How early production code smothered moviesJan 03, 2008 10:00 pm - "JR in 3D," the ad read. This was in 1954, when I was starting to venture beyond the comics section of my hometown paper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. That minimalist te...
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Best sellersJan 03, 2008 10:00 pm - Best-sellers Fiction 1. Double Cross, James Patterson 2. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini 3. For One More Day, Mitch Albom 4. T is for Trespass, Sue Grafton 5. ...
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Of publishers, writers and money
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What makes Steve Martin tick?Dec 27, 2007 10:00 pm - Steve Martin has become such a beloved figure in film and TV that it's hard to recall that time -- in the second half of the 1970s -- when he was one of America's first ...
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Crimes of the pastDec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - Maggie O'Farrell's three previous novels have been respectfully reviewed, but her new one radiates the kind of energy that marks a classic. Think Kate Chopin's "The Awa...
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Best sellersDec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - Best-sellers Fiction 1. T is for Trespass, Sue Grafton 2. The Darkest Evening of the Year, Dean Koontz 3. For One More Day, Mitch Albom 4. Double Cross, James Patterson ...