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Silver Hawks: After a cold start, Drury heating up
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND — Seeing pitches to hit is a good thing for a baseball player. Seeing your breath? Not so much. Brandon Drury struggled when the South Bend Silver Hawks opened the season in near-freezing temperatures. Lately, he’s been...Tags: Baseball, Martin Prado, Justin Upton, James Loney, Corey Seager
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Judy Juanita and her 'Virgin Soul'
In the late 1960s, Judy Juanita was a college undergraduate in the Bay Area and editor of a Black Panther Party newspaper. Now her new novel, "Virgin Soul" (Viking, $26.95), recounts the story of Geniece, an undergraduate who joins the Panthers. But...Tags: Cultural Development, Culture, LSD, Human Interest, Arts and Culture
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Battered Sox rotation could use stalwart like Buehrle
Are Mark Buehrle's old friends about to start missing him? Sooner or later, it is bound to happen. You don't win 161 games for a franchise and leave at age 32, with a sturdy arm still capable of 200-plus innings, without your name coming up in a...
Tags: American League Central, Baseball, Gavin Floyd, Jake Peavy, Seattle Mariners
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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: Italo Calvino, World War II (1939-1945), Kenzaburo Oe, Bruno Schulz, Arts and Culture
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A rosy new stage for Sugar Blue
These are very sweet days for Sugar Blue. In a few months, he'll be a father once more, his wife and bass player Ilaria Lantieri expecting their first child together in late May or early June. In the meantime, the two — who own a home in...
Tags: James Stewart, Frank Capra Jr., Music Industry, Billie Holiday, Apollo Theater
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Prefer not to? Kevin Smokler says you should reread 'Bartleby'
It's almost as if Kevin Smokler found himself in 30-something detention: well into adulthood, he was sentenced to go back and re-read the books he read in high school English class. He might have escaped if he hadn't been passing notes in class written...Tags: Google+, The Happiest News!, Social Media, Sherman Alexie, David Foster Wallace
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Emily Raboteau's fresh exploration of identity and faith
-------------------- Searching for Zion The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora Emily Raboteau Atlantic Monthly Press: 320 pp., $25 -------------------- In 1965, author and civil rights essayist James Baldwin appeared at the Cambridge Union...Tags: NPR, Israel, Jamaica, Civil Rights, William F. Buckley
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Martin Luther King Jr.: 12 essential reads
Today the nation honors the life of Martin Luther King Jr., the reverend and activist who led the American civil rights movement. As King studied nonviolence as practiced by Gandhi and imagined by Henry David Thoreau, now his own life and work are the...Tags: Google+, Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights, Human Interest, Langston Hughes
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Nathan Englander examines identity
Every journalist's nightmare is the interview with the subject who responds to questions with one-sentence (or even one-word) answers. Fortunately, the writer Nathan Englander — who was in Chicago recently as the inaugural Crown Speaker Series...Tags: Saul Bellow, The Washington Post, John Updike, Track and Field, The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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As 'Bastard out of Carolina' turns 20, Dorothy Allison reflects on her career
In her potent memoir and manifesto, “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure,” Dorothy Allison writes, “Oh, I could tell you stories that would darken the sky and stop the blood.” And then she declares, “I am not here to make...
Tags: Libraries, Literature, Lobbying, Authors, Politics
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Police Asking for Help Finding Missing Kalamazoo Township Man
FOX 17 Web ProducerKalamazoo Township Police Department is asking for help finding a man who has been missing for four days, according to his family. Family members say James William Baldwin, 39, was last seen on Friday, Oct. 26 in the early the evening. He's said to be... -
Chinese-American novelist to speak at UM
Maxine Hong Kingston's most recent book, "I Love a Broad Margin to My Life" — possibly the last from this pioneering Chinese-American novelist, memoirist, poet and activist — includes a glossary to help readers with all the loan words. "I...
Tags: David Henry Hwang, Crime, Law and Justice, Fiction, Colleges and Universities, Justice and Rights
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