Aug 23, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
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I recently took one of those online quizzes to test your accent, and it declared, accurately, that I come from the "Central U.S." The test said my accent is essentially no accent, the one that's employed by television news anchors, who are supposed to...
Sep 14, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
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Some of the biggest blockbuster movies in the last 10 years are based on books. (That means you, Harry Potter and “The Hunger Games”). But the annual television lineup has always included its share of book adaptations as well, dating back to...
Aug 23, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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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...
Aug 19, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
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A monthlong seaward expedition in search of Amelia Earhart's missing aircraft became a study in meditation, though not stillness, for a Chicago photographer widely esteemed for her visual accounting of artifacts.
The search, the subject of Discovery...
Jun 14, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
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We have 24 members who are all residents of the Southbridge Commons subdivision in Northbook.
Our first book was "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini. Since then, we have met 79 times and read 72 books.
We meet in our homes. The hostess for the month...
Aug 6, 2011
|Story| Chicago Tribune
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Tribune reporter
"Writing" seems an inadequate word to describe what Stephen Sondheim has done, yet it is the breadth, impact and influence of his writing that have won him the 2011 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for lifetime achievement.
The 81-year-old composer and...
Mar 15, 2012
|Story| Zap2It
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So many actors say they knew from an early age that they belonged onstage. But Amanda Peet actually hurled herself onto one -- while a production was in progress -- when she was 3.
"Luckily it was a children's play," says Peet, who stars in NBC's "Bent,"...
Jan 20, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
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Our book club is a 17-member city book club, begun 16 years ago in The Buckingham Condominium on East Randolph Street, evolving to include friends from other buildings.
We mostly focus on current culture, a delightful example being "Major Pettigrew's...
Feb 1, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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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...
Jan 30, 2012
| Orlando Sentinel
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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...
Sep 1, 2011
|Story| WTXX-LTV
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Every so often a writer becomes his country's major literary export. Word has it that Jonathan Franzen is the American novelist for Europeans these days, and the Russian novelist of the moment for Americans seems to be Vladimir Sorokin. Praised as a...
Sep 9, 2011
|Story| Chicago Tribune
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Our book club is composed of about 20 students in seventh and eighth grades (at the academy, in Chicago). The students are always busy with schoolwork and extracurricular activities, but they find time to tackle the club's extra reading.
Our club meets...
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