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    Jun 5, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. Michael Robbins shakes up poetry world with 'Alien vs. Predator'

    Michael Robbins called from the road. He explained he was driving back to Chicago from Mississippi, headed for his new apartment in Andersonville, white-knuckling at the wheel of a U-Haul too big for him, a drumbeat of imminent freeway death pounding in his skull. "I've been scared for, like, five hours," he said. "I got to get to a hotel. My cat's freaking out, the cars are nuts …" Drivers were cutting him off, truckers were bearing down, he said. So he started talking to himself, conducting a one-man theological debate, asking if it'd be OK if, you know, a few people died: "Would I be justified not shedding a tear if they accidentally flipped?"
    Michael Robbins called from the road. He explained he was driving back to Chicago from Mississippi, headed for his new apartment in Andersonville, white-knuckling at the wheel of a U-Haul too big for him, a drumbeat of imminent freeway death pounding in...

    Tags: Colleges and Universities, University of Chicago, University of Southern Mississippi, Britney Spears, Xbox 360

    2. Aug 23, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. Annoyingly talented

    <em>You know what's annoying? </em>
    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: Authors, Vomiting, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Literature, Chicago Tribune

    3. Feb 1, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. Rudin-Norris spat rivets Broadway

    In a blockbuster scoop this morning that had Broadway people choking on their cornflakes, New York Post columnist Michael Riedel reported that the powerful New York producer Scott Rudin had angrily pulled the plug on his upcoming Broadway production of...

    Tags: Scott Rudin, Bruce Norris

    4. Oct 31, 2011 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. They're playing our poem

    If you want to make Stephen Sondheim mad enough to swat you over the head with a rolled-up musical score, try this:
    If you want to make Stephen Sondheim mad enough to swat you over the head with a rolled-up musical score, try this: Call him a poet. As Sondheim insists in interviews, essays and in the introduction to his book "Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics...

    Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Opera (genre), Services and Shopping, Chicago Tribune, Entertainment

    5. Jun 1, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  5. Oprah relaunches book club, saying 'I still believe in books'

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    Are you ready for Oprah's Book Club 2.0? Bring your Kindles, if you like....
    6. May 16, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  6. Most interesting comment thread of the day, courtesy Helen DeWitt

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    Novelist Helen DeWitt takes issue with the romantic idea that a writer is a person who has to write....
    7. May 16, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  7. Sarajevo with tears: Another walk down Logavina Street

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    Barbara Demick says that" real Sarajevans don’t like to talk about the war," but her book, "Logavina Street," follows the lives of a small community during the conflict. It has been re-released, with additional materials, commemorating the 20th...
    8. Apr 27, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  8. On Sunday: Alain Mabanckou, Jonathan Franzen and lumber as history

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    In Sunday books: a talk with UCLA author Alain Mabanckou, plus reviews of the latest by Jonathan Franzen, lumber as history and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's letters and diaries....
    9. Feb 1, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  9. Mark Taper Forum's 'Clybourne Park' Broadway run derailed

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    The Broadway run of the Pulitzer Prize winning play "Clybourne Park" has been canceled by producer Scott Rudin....
    10. Jan 28, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  10. Book news: 'Albert Nobbs,' lady friends, and fiction and place

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    Female friendships, a very literary Oscar contender, and thoughts on fiction, place and film in the weekend's book news....
    11. Feb 3, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  11. 'Clybourne Park' will move from Taper to Broadway after all

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    The acclaimed production of playwright Bruce Norris' "Clybourne Park," now playing at the Mark Taper Forum, will move to Broadway this spring after all, despite a well-publicized spat between Norris and a producer of the show threatened to sideline the...
    12. Jan 30, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel

  12. What’s so horrible about e-books?

    Orlando Opinionators - Orlando Sentinel
    Novelist Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections, Freedom) argues in an interview published in London's The Telegraph that e-books are bad for society. Really. Franzen's thinking is that their electronic nature makes them vulnerable to change, unlike real...
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