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Mark Twain stamp is coming to post offices June 25
Jacket CopyMark Twain will appear on a new stamp, with a celebration at the Hannibal, Missouri post office June 25.... -
Wednesday night in Los Angeles: Mike Mills with 'Beginners' [Video]
Jacket CopyWriter-director Mike Mills, who published a book of illustrations to accompany his new film Beginners, appears Wednesday night in Los Angeles.... -
‘Public Speaking,’ ‘Collapse’ and stand-up comedies — a weekend of documentary watching.
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelThe long Memorial Day holiday weekend was a chance to catch up on all sorts of films Ive been meaning to get to — documentaries, mainly (Though I did plow through the Andy Serkis star turn as rocker Ian Drury “Sex, Drugs & Rock'n Roll.”... -
Army & Lou's, one of the last soul-food icons, closes
Tribune columnistSince 1945, when William and Luvilla Armstrong opened Army & Lou’s on East 75th Street, the home-style eatery has catered to luminaries and regular folk alike in a way that made it more than just a soul food restaurant. It became known around the...Tags: Public Officials, Economy, Business and Finance, Career and Workplace, Chicago Elections, Martin Luther King Jr.
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A new collection of James Baldwin's writings
Jacket Copy"Writers are obliged, at some point, to realize that they are involved in a language that they must change," James Baldwin wrote. "And for a black writer in this country to be born into the English language is to realize...... -
Downers Grove South students win national writing award
TribLocal - Downers Grove » NewsThe 20th Century American author James Baldwin, when asked for advice from an aspiring writer, once said that the trick to writing well was, well, …... -
Blaming teachers
Change of SubjectWe widely believe that, no matter what forces shape a child’s life outside school, teachers can level the playing field, neutralize the negative effects of poverty on learning, and raise every kid to proficiency in every standard. But ....until we..... -
Michael Chabon named chairman of MacDowell Colony board
Jacket CopyMichael Chabon is named chair of the board of directors of the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough NH, a major artist residency program.... -
Margaret Burroughs dies; founder of Chicago's DuSable Museum of African American History
![Margaret Burroughs, an artist and teacher who founded the nationally recognized <a href="http://www.dusablemuseum.org/"> DuSable Museum of African American History</a> in the living room of her home on the South Side of Chicago almost 50 years ago, died Sunday of unspecified causes at home, surrounded by family. Relatives said she was 95; other records indicate she was 93.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-11/57826623-22220236-187105.jpg "Margaret Burroughs, an artist and teacher who founded the nationally recognized <a href="http://www.dusablemuseum.org/\"> DuSable Museum of African American History</a> in the living room of her home on the South Side of Chicago almost 50 years ago, died Sunday of unspecified causes at home, surrounded by family. Relatives said she was 95; other records indicate she was 93.")
Margaret Burroughs, an artist and teacher who founded the nationally recognized DuSable Museum of African American History in the living room of her home on the South Side of Chicago almost 50 years ago, died Sunday of unspecified causes at home,...Tags: Arts, Bronzeville, Colleges and Universities, Entertainment, Minority Groups
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"The Thieves of Manhattan: A Novel" By Adam Langer
Special to the Tribune'The Thieves of Manhattan: A Novel' By Adam Langer Spiegel & Grau, 259 pp., $24 By their chunky glasses, facial scruff, skinny jeans, and iPhones you shall know them: New York’s latest crop of aspiring male fiction writers, fresh from the provinces...Tags: Joan Rivers, Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, Wesleyan University, Theft
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Book review: 'Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim' collected by Mark Cohen
Missing a Beat
The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim
Edited and with an introduction by Mark Cohen
Syracuse University Press: 296 pp., $29.95
We hear a disproportionate amount from the writers who "made it." The ones who hustled, stroked the right...Tags: Harold Bloom, Book, Manhattan (New York City), Norman Mailer, Reviews
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Summer reading: 60 titles for 92 days
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Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl
Daniel Pinkwater
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pinkwater brings a magical realist perspective to YA fiction in the third volume of the series that begins with "The Yggyssey" and "The Neddiad."
The Clock Without a...Tags: Sociology, Consumers, Nelson DeMille, Health and Safety at School, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Original site for James Baldwin topic gallery.