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Review: 'Happy-Go-Lucky,' an amusing look at life's ironies

By ANITA SNOW
May 31, 2022 7:00 am - 'œHappy-Go-Lucky,'ť by David Sedaris (Little, Brown and Company) Almost everyone has a dysfunctional family, but few expose their relatives' funny, embarrassing and even...
Review: '~The Latecomer' skewers wealth and privilege

By ROB MERRILL
May 31, 2022 7:00 am - 'œThe Latecomer'ť by Jean Hanff Korelitz (Celadon Books) Wealthy, dysfunctional families are so common in novels that it's easy to dismiss books centered around them. Do...
Review: Crime thriller debut well executed in 'The Favor'

By DONNA EDWARDS
May 31, 2022 7:00 am - 'œThe Favor'ť by Nora Murphy (Minotaur) Leah and Liam Dawson are lawyers. McKenna and Zack Hawkins are doctors. Or at least, Leah was a lawyer. And McKenna was a doctor....
Book review: 'Team America' plumbs enduring impact of 4 generals

By Douglass K. Daniel Associated Press
May 30, 2022 6:00 am - "Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged" by Robert L. O'Connell (Harper) Insightful and informative, military h...
A good man: Exhibits honor 'Peanuts' creator Schulz on 100th

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press
May 30, 2022 6:00 am - COLUMBUS, Ohio - In a series of "Peanuts" comic strips that ran in mid-April of 1956, Charlie Brown grasps the string of his kite, which was stuck in what came to be kno...
Besties and former 'The Office' co-stars write on friendship

By Alicia Rancilio Associated Press
May 29, 2022 7:30 am - NEW YORK - Spoiler alert: Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey obviously knew how "The Office" ended its nine-year run on NBC, because, after all, they filmed it - but revisi...
Book review: 'Either/Or' is Elif Batuman's sequel to 'The Idiot'

By Ann Levin Associated Press
May 27, 2022 11:00 pm - “Either/Or” by Elif Batuman (Penguin Press) Do you remember what it felt like to be a college sophomore? The Jell-O shots, cookie dough and moments of ab...
Two College of DuPage educators find common ground, build opportunities for former inmates

Submitted by COD News Bureau
May 25, 2022 11:00 pm - A chance conversation between two colleagues is opening educational doors for incarcerated individuals and college students in DuPage County going into justice studies a...
Constable: 43 years after Flight 191 horror, siblings unite with book

By Burt Constable
May 25, 2022 1:00 am - By Burt Constable bconstable@dailyherald.com On Wednesday's anniversary of the tragedy that killed their parents, siblings Melody Smith, Kim Jockl and Jim Borchers make ...
Book review: Actress Selma Blair bares soul in captivating memoir

By Mike Householder Associated Press
May 24, 2022 6:00 am - "Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up" by Selma Blair (Alfred A. Knopf) Most people probably know Selma Blair from her memorable roles in late '90s/early '0...

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