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Remote, picturesque Mazama, Wash., to host book festival
Jacket CopyA new book festival will launch this summer in a hard-to-reach but beautiful part of Washington state.... -
My Interview With Nora Ephron
Hartford CourantSad news about the death of Nora Ephron at 71. Here's my interview with her in 1992 on her directing debut, "This Is My Life." BY FRANK RIZZO Nora Ephron is after those flashes of truth in movies, when suddenly there's a shock of recognition and...Tags: Entertainment Events, Steve Martin, Upper West Side, Stand-up Comedy, Nora Ephron
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Philip Roth to headline National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Jacket CopyThe lineup for the 2012 National Book Festival in Washington DC has been announced.... -
Five decades of fiction
Our story Our book club started meeting 48 years ago and we've been discussing books ever since. The original members were young, married women who'd just had their first children and wanted to stay intellectually active. Over the course of almost five...
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Bookmark: When kids kill
There is a hierarchy of personal catastrophe, an informal but definitive ranking of all the terrible things that can happen, moving through categories that might be labeled "Worst Thing" to "Next-Worst Thing" to "Next-to-Next Worst Thing" and on down...Tags: Entertainment Events, Human Interest, Literature, Arts and Culture, Paul Allen
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Five great audiobook performances
Special to Tribune newspapersIt takes a certain kind of genius to create a century full of characters — including an unforgettable Thomas Cromwell and an impetuous Henry VIII — and give each a distinctive voice and a fully formed personality. Simon Slater more than...Tags: Hope Davis
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'Mad Women' by Jane Maas
"Does she or doesn't she?" — the innuendo-filled catchphrase for Clairol from 1956 easily could have been conceived by "Mad Men's" Don Draper. It was not, of course, but rather was penned by one of the few female copywriters of her day. Jane Maas,...
Tags: Book, AMC (tv network), World War II (1939-1945), Entertainment, Roald Dahl
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The Bad Sex in Fiction Award goes to David Guterson
Jacket Copy2011's Bad Sex in Fiction award went to David Guterson's "Ed King," a modern retelling of the Oedpius story.... -
Pulitzer Prize-winning author to speak Nov. 15
jenb@amnews.comOne of America’s leading novelists will spend time on the Centre College campus, reading from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “Olive Kitteridge,” and giving a class at the college library. Elizabeth Strout’s award-winning...Tags: Anita Brookner, Arts and Culture, Alice Munro, Education, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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AFI Fest 2011: The literate anxieties of 'The Color Wheel'
24 FramesA ruefully acid-dipped send-up of the indie family comedy, "The Color Wheel" plays Saturday and Monday as part of AFI Fest. It will also screen on the UCLA campus on Tuesday as a double bill with Perry's first feature, 2009's "Impolex."... -
Montgomery Literary Society
We all live in condos at the Montgomery, the rehabbed office building once occupied by Montgomery Ward on West Superior Street. Our first book club meeting took place Jan. 24, 2007, in the 15th floor apartment of two of our founding members. Eight...Tags: Dave Eggers, Clubs and Associations, IKEA
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