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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...
Tags: Steve Jobs, August Wilson, Arthur Miller, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Morrison
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Tracking Wallace Stegner's footprints in Vermont's earth
Wallace Stegner wrote books about the American and Canadian West, so it's understandable that people consider the longtime California resident a Western author. Stegner, a prolific novelist, essayist, conservation advocate and professor at Stanford...
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What it takes to get writers writing
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Yale Selects Three Plays For Carlotta Festival
Hartford CourantThree graduate student plays from the Yale School of Drama are selected for the seventh annual Carlotta Festival of New Plays, May 4 to 12 at the Iseman Theater,1156 Chapel St,, New Haven. The plays will run in repertory with 12 performances over nine...Tags: Festive Events, Russia, Washington, DC, Fox Broadcasting Company, Arts and Culture
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Alice C. Steinbach, Pulitzer Prize winner
Alice C. Steinbach, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for The Baltimore Sun, whose work captured the wonder and grace of people and places around the world, died Tuesday of cancer at her Roland Park Place home. She was 78.
In her more than two-...Tags: Arts, Trials, Woodrow Wilson, Arts and Culture, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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The limits of fussbudgetry
The Baltimore SunThe day of my first piano lesson, I picked out "Yankee Doodle," right hand only. It would be insane to start a beginner with one of Bach's partitas or one of Lizst's Hungarian rhapsodies. One starts simply and progresses by stages as far as one's...Tags: Alexander Pope, Teaching and Learning, Education, Teachers
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Reynolds Price dies at 77; author and longtime Duke professor
In 1984, when he was 51, novelist Reynolds Price learned that a pencil-shaped tumor, about 10 inches long and malignant, had invaded his spine. Several surgeries and dozens of radiation treatments followed, leaving him a paraplegic racked with pain and...Tags: North Carolina, Durham (Durham, North Carolina), Heart Attack, Anne Tyler, Family
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"So Long, See You Tomorrow" by William Maxwell
![A boy moves away from his small-town central Illinois home after his father murders a tenant farmer. Years later, an occasional childhood playmate ignores the boy in a high school corridor. Out of that awkward, wordless moment emerged "So Long, See You Tomorrow," William Maxwell's graceful swan of a novel.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-07/63437060-22152349.jpg "A boy moves away from his small-town central Illinois home after his father murders a tenant farmer. Years later, an occasional childhood playmate ignores the boy in a high school corridor. Out of that awkward, wordless moment emerged "So Long, See You Tomorrow,\" William Maxwell's graceful swan of a novel.")
Literary editorA boy moves away from his small-town central Illinois home after his father murders a tenant farmer. Years later, an occasional childhood playmate ignores the boy in a high school corridor. Out of that awkward, wordless moment emerged "So Long, See You...Tags: Elizabeth Taylor, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson, Illinois, Vladimir Nabokov
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Theater review: 'Robber Bridegroom' at International City Theatre
Culture MonsterDavid C. Nichols reviews the revival of "The Robber Bridegroom" at International City Theatre in Long Beach.... -
Recap: Stockett on race, the new movie and her next book
![Early on, there were signs that the Chicago Tribune Author Talks program with Kathryn Stockett, who crafted the best-selling novel "The Help," would be an event. A large literary happening, in fact.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-05/61595526-13173722-187105.jpg "Early on, there were signs that the Chicago Tribune Author Talks program with Kathryn Stockett, who crafted the best-selling novel "The Help,\" would be an event. A large literary happening, in fact.")
Standards EditorEarly on, there were signs that the Chicago Tribune Author Talks program with Kathryn Stockett, who crafted the best-selling novel "The Help," would be an event. A large literary happening, in fact. An early indicator: Tickets sold out in a matter of...Tags: Movies, Civil Rights, Colorado, Clubs and Associations, Book
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'Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar' by Richard Ford
"Work, as you will see, is imagined broadly in these stories - as labor, as chores, as business, as duty, as habit, as memory, as art, and as priestly avocation," writes Richard Ford in his introduction to this wonderful anthology of stories about work,...Tags: Elizabeth Taylor, Michigan, John Cheever, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Richard Ford
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Chicagoland book club: third Thursday club
One thing to know about our book club: On the third Thursday of each month for the last 34 years, our book club has to discuss books that add another dimension to our very hectic existence. Over the years, we have watched our members marry, divorce,...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Bars and Clubs, Dining and Drinking, Breast Cancer, Family
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