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Palatine grandfather publishes children’s book

Daily Herald report
Dec 17, 2025 11:48 am - Longtime Palatine resident Bill Pohlman has completed his new children’s book, “The Fox in the Yard,” inspired by the stories he used to tell his daughter at bedtime.
Book by Daily Herald’s Jim Slusher wins Chicago Writers Association award

By Lisa Miner
Dec 17, 2025 11:03 am - The Chicago Writers Association Wednesday named Jim Slusher’s collection of Daily Herald columns, “To Nudge the World,” as the Indie Nonfiction Book of the Year for 2025.
MCC’s VOICES magazine shines with regional, national literary honors

By Katie Van Dyne, McHenry County College
Dec 16, 2025 12:47 pm - McHenry County College's literary arts magazine VOICES 2025 won first place for Best Magazine – Central Division and second place for Best Magazine nationally from the Community College Humanities Association.
Highland Park author releases first graphic novel in long-term ‘Ultimate Oz Universe’ project

By Ryan Cole
Dec 13, 2025 3:14 pm - An author based in Highland Park is working on a 10-book graphic novel series based on the Oz universe. Elton John wrote the forward.
Hail Sid Caesar, the original king of TV comedy

By Karen Heller
Dec 11, 2025 3:08 pm - “When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy,” by veteran New York Times and Vanity Fair writer David Margolick, is an apt title for one of the first in-depth looks at the comedian.
Sophie Kinsella, author of the millions-selling ‘Shopaholic’ novels, dies at 55

Dec 10, 2025 7:44 am - Sophie Kinsella, the author behind the popular “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” died Monday from complications of brain cancer. She was 55.
Her family spied for Germany in WWII. She tried to learn the truth.

By Rebecca Brenner Graham
Dec 08, 2025 12:43 pm - In 1994, a suburban wife, mother and journalist named Christine Kuehn received a mysterious letter in the mail from a filmmaker. Its message? A suggestion that her grandparents were Nazi spies who facilitated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Eric Dane’s emotional memoir, including his life with ALS, to be published in April

By HILLEL ITALIE
Dec 08, 2025 12:05 pm - A memoir by Eric Dane, the “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Euphoria” actor who has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, will be published next year.
Proud to be an American: St. Charles author publishes book celebrating 250 years of America

By Ryan Cole
Dec 06, 2025 5:00 pm - Jay Payleitner of St. Charles recently published a book celebrating 250 things that make America worth celebrating.
‘Lightbreakers’ is a moving, inventive novel about physics, time and love

By Andrew Ervin
Dec 02, 2025 2:52 pm - The term “scientific fiction,” a subtle adjustment to science fiction, is often used to describe weighty literary novels about cutting-edge technologies and big ideas, and it’s an apt way to describe Aja Gabel’s riveting second novel, “Lightbreakers.”

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