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Book review: An insomniac's vigil with John Maynard Keynes

By Ann Levin Associated Press
Feb 04, 2023 5:00 am - "The Guest Lecture" by Martin Riker (Black Cat) If you're ever spent a sleepless night worrying about your career, your family and the gross inequality o...
Author, 85, credits Daily Herald with giving her a push to start her writing career

By Dave Heun
Feb 03, 2023 5:00 am - Her tenure at the Daily Herald was only two years in the early 1970s. But 85-year-old Frances Altman of Baltimore, Maryland, still points to that time in the Arlington H...
Aurora University to host presidential historian in 'A Conversation with Doris Kearns Goodwin'

Submitted by Al Benson
Feb 02, 2023 10:00 pm - Aurora University will host a presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize winning author on Tuesday, March 14. Continuing spring main stage events in the school's 2022-23 ...
Neighbors in the news: ECC English professor wins Book of the Year for Indie Fiction

By Norrine Twohey
Feb 02, 2023 5:00 am - • The Chicago Writers Association has honored Christina Marrocco, an associate professor of English at Elgin Community College, with its 2022 Book of the Year Award for ...
Geneva Unitarian's Inclusion Book Club to host conversation on racism

Submitted by Christine Imielski
Feb 01, 2023 10:00 pm - The Unitarian Universalist Society of Geneva's Inclusion Book Club invites members of the community to join them in reading and discussing "So You Want to Talk About Rac...
Wheaton seventh-grader's story selected for publication by New York Times best-selling author

Submitted by Barbara DuRocher
Jan 31, 2023 10:00 pm - New York Times best-selling author Adam Rubin is visiting the Waldorf School of DuPage in Warrenville on Friday, Feb. 10. Rubin will talk about the creative writing proc...
ECC's Christina Marrocco wins the Chicago Writers Association 2022 Book of the Year for Indie Fiction

Submitted by Elgin Community College
Jan 29, 2023 10:00 pm - Christina Marrocco, Ph.D., associate professor of English at Elgin Community College, is the 2022 winner of the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award for In...
Book review: Dean Koontz's latest thriller misses the mark

By Rob Merrill Associated Press
Jan 24, 2023 5:00 am - "The House at the End of the World" by Dean Koontz (Thomas & Mercer) Like the "fusions" that terrify the main characters, Dean Koontz's new thriller feel...
Book review: 'Vintage Contempoararies' an affectionate ode to '90s New York

By MAE ANDERSON Associated Press
Jan 22, 2023 6:00 am - "Vintage Contemporaries" By Dan Kois (Harper) Emily Thiel, fresh to New York City by way of college and Wausau, Wisconsin, often has her nose stuck in a ...
Book review: Oral history of Rikers Island reveals city's failure

By Jeff Rowe Associated Press
Jan 21, 2023 5:30 am - "Rikers: An Oral History" by Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau (Random House) In these times, when people disagree about seemingly everything, just about eve...

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