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    Sep 14, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. From page to small screen

    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...

    Tags: Lost (tv program), Justified (tv program), Arts and Culture, American Idol (tv program), Ugly Betty (tv program)

    2. Sep 9, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. D.T. Max takes on the life of David Foster Wallace

    D.T. Max knew what he was getting into when he decided to write a biography of David Foster Wallace. In March 2009, he published a long piece in the New Yorker about Wallace's suicide and the author's inability to finish "The Pale King," the novel left incomplete at the time of his death.
    D.T. Max knew what he was getting into when he decided to write a biography of David Foster Wallace. In March 2009, he published a long piece in the New Yorker about Wallace's suicide and the author's inability to finish "The Pale King," the novel left...

    Tags: Fiction, Chicago Tribune, Biography (genre), Arts and Culture, Suicide

    3. Aug 24, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  3. Under a literary spell

    As Lucy Kobbs turned the final page of the seventh and last book in the "Harry Potter" series, she took a pencil to the wall beside her bed and memorialized the end of an era: 7/22/07, 3:20 a.m.
    As Lucy Kobbs turned the final page of the seventh and last book in the "Harry Potter" series, she took a pencil to the wall beside her bed and memorialized the end of an era: 7/22/07, 3:20 a.m. "It's one of those books that will stick with me for life,"...

    Tags: Orson Scott Card, Arts and Culture, Schools, Teaching and Learning, Music

    4. Aug 23, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. 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: Parties and Movements, Nathan Englander, Arts and Culture, Toy Industry, Literature

    5. Aug 23, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. Midwestern lit: Plain-spoken

    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 be from everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
    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...

    Tags: Prince (music artist), Wilco (music group), Arts and Culture, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Literature

    6. Aug 19, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. In pursuit of Amelia Earhart

    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.
    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...

    Tags: Documentary (genre), Photography, Arts and Culture, Photography Supplies and Services, Arts

    7. Jun 14, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  7. Southbridge Commons Book Club

    <strong>We have 24 members</strong> who are all residents of the Southbridge Commons subdivision in Northbook.
    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...

    Tags: Clubs and Associations, Lifestyle and Leisure

    8. Jun 10, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Critic's Notebook: Essays tiptoe up to grab us unawares

    Essays sneak up on us. They are &mdash; or often feel &mdash; accidental: the record of a writer wrestling with an idea, an observation, a slice of experience, of a writer figuring it out. They have a conditional quality, as if they could go in any direction, offering impressions more than conclusive points of view. As Tom Bissell notes at the beginning of "Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation": "When I am asked ... for advice on how to get started as a nonfiction writer, I tell them to start small and look around."
    Essays sneak up on us. They are — or often feel — accidental: the record of a writer wrestling with an idea, an observation, a slice of experience, of a writer figuring it out. They have a conditional quality, as if they could go in any...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Authors, Don DeLillo, Tommy Wiseau, Werner Herzog

    9. Jun 5, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  9. 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 &hellip;" 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: Britney Spears, University of Southern Mississippi, University of Chicago, Andersonville, The New York Times

    10. Jun 1, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  10. 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....
    11. May 16, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  11. 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....
    12. May 16, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  12. 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...
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