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Best-Selling Author Micah Nathan creates graphic anthology in "Jack the Bastard"
Best-selling author Micah Nathan likes pushing the boundaries of storytelling. Recipient of the Saul Bellow Prize in Fiction in 2011, he's also been a finalist for the Tobias Wolff Award and the Innovative Fiction Award for his short stories. With his...
Tags: Genres, Music, Authors, Fiction, Twitter, Inc.
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Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies
In a world more to his liking, Gore Vidalmight have been president, or even king. He had an aristocrat's bearing — tall, handsome and composed — and an authoritative baritone ideal for summoning an aide or courtier. But Vidal made his...
Tags: U.S. Military, Syphilis, U.S. Army, Michele Bachmann, Politics
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The Sunday Conversation: Martin Amis talks 'Lionel Asbo,' money
Martin Amis, once dubbed "fiction's angriest writer," continues dissecting the absurdity and excesses of postmodern society in his latest novel, "Lionel Asbo: State of England," which reaches bookstores Aug. 21. The British novelist, 62, recently moved...
Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Authors, Lifestyle and Leisure, Tampa, World War I (1914-1918)
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175 years of memorable, horrible, humorous and remarkable events that shaped Chicago
On March 4, 1837, exactly 175 years ago, Chicago was incorporated. Not that Flashback needed a reason, but we took this occasion to compile a very long list of events, year by year and decade by decade, that helped shape this great city. Some events...
Tags: Stanley Cup Playoffs, Willis Tower, Roman Catholicism, Chicago Public Library, Uno Chicago Grill
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Old Norwood Park book club
We all live in a unique neighborhood called Old Norwood Park on the city's far Northwest Side. All 11 members live within walking distance of one another. We have been meeting at each other's homes almost every month for five years.
Our meetings begin...Tags: The Other Boleyn Girl (movie), The Hunger Games (movie), Norwood Park, Clubs and Associations, Keith Richards
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Chicago Live! comes home to Old Town
On the opening night of Chicago Live! Thursday, in its new home at Pipers Alley with The Second City, the show didn't feel new: It felt like a homecoming. No one from Chicago would feel out of place.
Rick Kogan needed no script to talk about the 43rd...Tags: Music, Radio, U.S. Cellular Field, Networking, Concerts
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Christopher Hitchens dies at 62; engaging, enraging author and essayist
Christopher Hitchens, the engaging and enraging British-American author and essayist whose polemical writings on religion, politics, war and other provocations established him as one of his generation's most robust public intellectuals, has died. He was...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Tony Blair, Civil Unrest, Human Rights, George W. Bush
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'Adventures of Augie March' is new One Book, One Chicago pick
Cultural criticForget that Packers-Bears rivalry. The greatest grudge match in history was waged by Thomas Wolfe and F. Scott Fitzgerald over the proper way to write fiction. In a letter to Fitzgerald, Wolfe called himself a “putter-inner.” He tried to cram...Tags: Hyde Park, Chicago Public Library, Book, Humboldt Park, Health
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King, Beattie books among new crop
Fiction "The Lost Memory of Skin" (Ecco) by Russell Banks. Coming Tuesday. Banks, one of our finest and most adventurous novelists, is not afraid to tackle big, tough topics that persistently bedevil the human species, and with his 17th book, he has...
Tags: University of Chicago, John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Julia Keller, University of Cambridge, Russia
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Seth, Daniel Clowes think inside the box
If you can imagine a bricklayer who's had it up to here with bricks, or a pastry chef who's frankly a little ambivalent about the whole flour and sugar deal, then you get Daniel Clowes.
He works with words and pictures, but he's pretty suspicious of...Tags: Hyde Park, University of Chicago, Julia Keller, Scarlett Johansson, The New York Times
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Chicagoland literary events: Oct. 15 - 22
Saturday Anderson's Bookshop's mother-daughter book club will discuss "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry at 2 p.m. at Anderson's Bookshop in Downers Grove, 5112 Main St., Downers Grove; free. 630-963-2665, andersonsbookshop.com. Franki Elliot will host...Tags: John Green, Chicago Cultural Center, Book, Thurgood Marshall, Clubs and Associations
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'Love and Shame and Love' by Peter Orner
Special to Tribune NewspapersLately, I've been trying to cure myself of my packrat tendencies and have been sorting through boxes of papers and mementos I've amassed over the years. In the box I most recently opened, I found an old Comiskey Park ticket stub from a Sox game I attended...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Martin Luther King Jr., John Marshall, U.S. Cellular Field, Wicker Park
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Original site for Saul Bellow topic gallery.