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Biblioracle: The big box conundrum
Barnes & Noble is in trouble. Holiday sales were disappointing, down 10.9 percent over last year. Even the Nook is struggling, unit sales also down over 10 percent from a year ago. And Publishers Weekly recently reported on a dispute over terms...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Noam Chomsky, Books, Chicago Tribune, Books and Magazines
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It’s a family affair!
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Umberto Eco para todos los tiempos
A Umberto Eco lo leo desde mis tiempos de la universidad, cuando nos hacían estudiar "Apocalípticos e Integrados", un ensayo sobre qué postura adoptar frente a la sociedad de masas. Pero sobre todo siempre admiré su capacidad para escribir no sólo... -
Amanda Knox's Ex-Boyfriend Writes Tell-All Book
![ROME -- Amanda Knox's ex-boyfriend and murder trial co-defendant revealed in a new book that he sometimes questioned her innocence because of her "bizarre behavior" the day a British student was found dead in their apartment.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-09/72387778-18204200.jpg "ROME -- Amanda Knox's ex-boyfriend and murder trial co-defendant revealed in a new book that he sometimes questioned her innocence because of her "bizarre behavior\" the day a British student was found dead in their apartment.")
CNNROME -- Amanda Knox's ex-boyfriend and murder trial co-defendant revealed in a new book that he sometimes questioned her innocence because of her "bizarre behavior" the day a British student was found dead in their apartment. Raffaele Sollecito's memoir,...Tags: Justice System, Crimes, Punishment, Trials, Defendants
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In a word: phatic
The Baltimore SunEach week The Sun's John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar — another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week's word: PHATIC Language carries a good deal more than... -
James takes on Austen
"Death Comes to Pemberly" by P.D. James, Alfred A. Knopf, 304 pages, $25.95. One of my favorite authors has written a sequel to one of my all-time favorite novels. Life doesn't get much better for book lovers! It is 1803, six years after the end of...Tags: Discrimination, Prague (Czech Republic), Jane Austen
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Holiday books: Fiction
Aleph
A Novel
Paulo Coelho
Alfred A. Knopf, $24.95
A crisis of faith prompts a man to begin a journey of self-discovery from Africa to Asia.
The Angel Esmeralda
Nine Stories
Don DeLillo
Scribner, $24
The first collection of short stories from a...Tags: Requiem, Haruki Murakami, College Baseball, England, Michael Ondaatje
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Tribune recognizes the word well-written
![On Nov. 3, 2002, Arthur Miller stepped up to the Armour Stage at Symphony Center, stood at the podium and read from his book "On Politics and the Art of Acting," in which he explored the American political stage.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-11/65875541-04150100-187105.jpg "On Nov. 3, 2002, Arthur Miller stepped up to the Armour Stage at Symphony Center, stood at the podium and read from his book "On Politics and the Art of Acting,\" in which he explored the American political stage.")
Literary editorOn Nov. 3, 2002, Arthur Miller stepped up to the Armour Stage at Symphony Center, stood at the podium and read from his book "On Politics and the Art of Acting," in which he explored the American political stage. As inaugural winner of the Tribune...Tags: Studs Terkel, Sam Shepard, Jonathan Franzen, Music, Nelson Algren
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Best week ever: Baltimore events, music, movies and more
A list of everything you need to know about the week ahead.
MOVIES OPENING (Friday; subject to change)
Immortals
J. Edgar
Jack and Jill
Like Crazy
NOTABLE TV
MONDAY
The Bad Girls Club Reunion, Part 1 (special; 9 p.m.; Oxygen)
The Witch Doctor Will...Tags: Music, Baltimore Museum of Art, Pat Metheny, Bill Bryson, Brandon T. Jackson
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Scintillating prose — the second time around
On the fifth floor of the Chicago Tribune Tower is a square windowless room accessed by a single door.
This room is called, with a regrettable lack of imagination, the Book Room.
It will not surprise you to learn that it is filled with books. Day...Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Julia Keller, Chicago Humanities Festival, Arts and Culture, Prague (Czech Republic)
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Bookmark: Umberto Eco's books stir up life's dilemmas
On the fifth floor of the Chicago Tribune Tower is a square windowless room accessed by a single door. This room is called, with a regrettable lack of imagination, the Book Room. It will not surprise you to learn that it is filled with books. Day...Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Chicago Humanities Festival, Arts and Culture, Prague (Czech Republic), Book
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Dec 13, 2011
|Column| Daily American
Dec 4, 2011
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Nov 4, 2011
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Nov 6, 2011
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Nov 9, 2011
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Nov 17, 2011
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