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Mat-Su Author Was Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Channel 2 NewsAn Alaska author was a finalist this year for a Pulitzer Prize. Mat-Su author Eowyn Ivey lives in Chickaloon and is the author of "The Snow Child." The Anchorage Daily Newssays her publisher called her with the news on Monday to tell her the judges...Tags: Entertainment Events, Book, Awards and Prizes, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Review: "The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls" by Anton DiSclafani
In conceiving her first, impressive yet flawed novel, 30-year-old Anton DiSclafani seems to have followed the standard advice offered to newbie authors to "Write what you know." DiSclafani's protagonist, 15-year-old Thea Atwell, is a teenage...
Tags: Animals, Authors, Book, Human Interest
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The Biblioracle: A Lit Fest strategy
We're having a party and everyone is invited! The Printers Row Lit Fest is next weekend, and I'll be jetting in (economy class style) for the festivities. Very exciting. -------------------- This piece first ran in Printers Row Journal, delivered...
Tags: World War I (1914-1918), Rick Bayless, American Red Cross, Taste of Chicago, Festive Events
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Nathan Englander
What do you think of when you think of Chicago? I think of food and friends—and maybe I should reverse that and say 'friends and food' (the better order). And I think of Andersonville. And the writer Aleksandar Hemon (who is my Andersonville...
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Five books: Warming up with a festive high-five
Printers Row Lit Fest announced its lineup earlier this week, and it's led by Judy Blume, the beloved children's book author who has helped several generations endure the agony of adolescence. Blume will receive the Chicago Tribune's Young Adult...
Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Fiction, Festive Events, Authors, Chicago Public Library
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Judy Blume to appear at Printers Row Lit Fest
Children's/young-adult author Judy Blume and graphic novelist/cartoonist Art Spiegelman will be honored as part of this year's Printers Row Lit Fest, which runs June 8 and 9 in the South Loop. Blume, the author of such beloved works as "Are You There...
Tags: Prada, Columbia College Chicago, Fiction, Authors, Festive Events
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Tackling human rights
Atrocity in Cambodia. Devastation in New Orleans. Revolution in the Middle East. The Chicago office of Human Rights Watch recently started a book club to get people to engage in discussion about places and countries such as these where the international...
Tags: Justice and Rights, International Law, Brad Pitt, Dave Eggers, Clubs and Associations
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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: Religion and Belief, James Baldwin, Track and Field, Judaism, The Washington Post
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Annoyingly talented
You know what's annoying? Experimental short stories. You know what else is annoying? Adam Levin. He is 35 and grew up on the North Shore. He is talented and can't do anything half- way, which makes him frustratingly, endearingly bold, the twin...
Tags: Republican Party, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Rogers Park, Michigan Avenue, Chicago Public Schools
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Ephron would have appreciated anecdote
Nora Ephron — journalist, essayist, novelist, blogger, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, producer, director, playwright, world-class cook and world-class friend — died June 26. I am so sad. In the month since Ephron's passing, I have spent...Tags: The Herald-Mail, Nora Ephron, Authors
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Curating short fiction: Recommended Reading
Jacket CopyOne short story will be curated and delivered weekly, electronically, by Recommended Reading, an Electric Literature project. Editor Benjamin Samuel explains what readers can expect.... -
Book recommendations from poets and rock stars at The Millions
Jacket CopyWhat people who like to read liked reading this year....
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