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    May 18, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. Word power

    Earlier this year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a 100-book required reading list for his compatriots, it provoked anxiety, rekindling memories of Soviet-era censorship. The furor underscored an important point: that literature plays a fundamental role in defining a country's culture and its discourse.
    Earlier this year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a 100-book required reading list for his compatriots, it provoked anxiety, rekindling memories of Soviet-era censorship. The furor underscored an important point: that literature plays a...

    Tags: Franz Kafka, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, Martin Amis, Charles Dickens

    2. Apr 13, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. English 101

    Each novelist requires circumstance — a situation to describe, from which a conflict arises — and the ivy-covered college hall or dormitory room provides such context readily. It would take research and, thereafter, expertise to write about a Fortune 500 company or those who built the Cabot Trail; why not invoke old campus adventures instead? That hoary advice to the young author "write about what you know" results in volume after volume about school: All writers have been students, and nowadays a sizable number are teachers, so it seems nearly unavoidable that we write about the golden groves we knew.
    Each novelist requires circumstance — a situation to describe, from which a conflict arises — and the ivy-covered college hall or dormitory room provides such context readily. It would take research and, thereafter, expertise to write about...

    Tags: Education, Chad, Randall Jarrell, University of Michigan, Charles Dickens

    3. Apr 1, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  3. Exploring themes in Chad Harbach's debut novel

    The perfect book for group discussion is one that's challenging but not impenetrable. It transports you to a different time and place, but is smooth enough to avoid motion sickness. It's a book that feels like there's a lot at stake.With those guidelines in mind, Printers Row Book of the Month aims to choose stimulating reading selections that provoke discussion and illuminate corners of the world in new and different ways.
    Literary Editor
    The perfect book for group discussion is one that's challenging but not impenetrable. It transports you to a different time and place, but is smooth enough to avoid motion sickness. It's a book that feels like there's a lot at stake.With those...

    Tags: Butterfly Ballots, Tribune Tower, Ring Lardner Jr., College Baseball, College Sports

    4. Sep 16, 2011 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  4. "The Art of Fielding" by Chad Harbach

    There should be a Biblical saying — For if a new novel, for which the publisher has paid an enormous amount of cash, lives up to its hype, all shall considered themselves blessed — and if that novel cometh from the Midwest, homeland to Floyd Dell and Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jim Harrison, then all shall be twice blessed.
    Special to Tribune Newspapers
    There should be a Biblical saying — For if a new novel, for which the publisher has paid an enormous amount of cash, lives up to its hype, all shall considered themselves blessed — and if that novel cometh from the Midwest, homeland to Floyd...

    Tags: NPR, Philip Roth, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Baseball

    5. Jul 1, 2011 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. Here's the pitch from Wilfred Santiago

    He was a man in motion — the beautifully controlled fury of a great athlete.
    Cultural critic
    He was a man in motion — the beautifully controlled fury of a great athlete. How, though, to convey that energy and grit and grace on the flat page of a graphic novel? How to suggest the up-and-at-'em vigor of a Roberto Clemente in a venue that...

    Tags: Fiction, Roberto Clemente Jr., New York, Biography (genre), Julia Keller

    6. Oct 28, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  6. Hollywood sports movies: Do fans love losers as much as winners?

    24 Frames
    My pals who are big sports nuts love to heap scorn on Hollywood sports movies, especially when the discussion is unfolding in a bar. Their biggest complaint? The films are squishy, full of more easy sentiment than soul, with the victories being achieved...
    7. Mar 31, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. The Reading Life: The nine best baseball books

    Five years ago, on the eve of the 2006 baseball season, I put together a list of nine favorite baseball books — one for each inning, one for every player on the field. Such a list was not meant to be definitive (how could it be?), but since then I've looked back at it periodically and thought about the books that are there and the books that are not. What would I change? What would I add or subtract?
    Los Angeles Times Book Critic
    Five years ago, on the eve of the 2006 baseball season, I put together a list of nine favorite baseball books — one for each inning, one for every player on the field. Such a list was not meant to be definitive (how could it be?), but since then I'...

    Tags: Jackie Robinson, Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians, Barry Bonds

    8. May 22, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Five summers, memorable for the reading

    Times Book Critic
    1974: Unhappy at summer camp, I holed up in my bunk and read Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint" and Bernard Malamud's "The Natural." The camp might have been awful, but the books were anything but. 1980: In June, I attended a writers conference at UC...

    Tags: Philip Roth, Joan Didion, University of California, Berkeley, Jean Genet, Albert Camus

    9. May 22, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Critic's Notebook: In Discover Mode

    For me, summer reading has always been about freedom. Not the freedom to dumb down with mindless entertainment but the freedom to wise up, to be ambitious, to pursue the passions that, during the rest of the year, often take a backseat to the necessities of daily life.
    Times Book Critic
    For me, summer reading has always been about freedom. Not the freedom to dumb down with mindless entertainment but the freedom to wise up, to be ambitious, to pursue the passions that, during the rest of the year, often take a backseat to the...

    Tags: Philip Roth, Human Interest, Schizophrenia, University of Chicago, Walker Percy

    10. Mar 31, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  10. Batter up! 9 baseball books to kick off the season

    Jacket Copy
    This list of nine best baseball books by David L. Ulin includes Robert Coover -- and leaves out Boys of Summer....
    11. Feb 7, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  11. Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

    The Daily Mirror
    Los Angeles Times file photo [Update: This photo stumped the brain trust! And perhaps with good reason. It was apparently never published in The Times and is from a somewhat obscure movie called “The Fixer,” which is not on Netflix......
    12. Feb 26, 2010 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. "The Man With Two Arms" by Billy Lombardo

    "The Man With Two Arms"
    Special to Tribune Newspapers
    "The Man With Two Arms" By Billy Lombardo Overlook, 336 pages, $24.95 The man of the title, really a young man from Chicagoland, has two golden arms. His name is Denny Granville and his baseball-crazed father Henry raises him from infancy to play ball -...

    Tags: College Baseball, Baseball, Sports

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