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    Feb 1, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. Author George Saunders maps the origins of his writing

    We sped south on Cicero Avenue. Through Oak Lawn, Alsip, Crestwood, a flat, aging strip-malled landscape of crumbling pizza joints and ancient tanning parlors, fast-food chains, tile-supply stores and —
    We sped south on Cicero Avenue. Through Oak Lawn, Alsip, Crestwood, a flat, aging strip-malled landscape of crumbling pizza joints and ancient tanning parlors, fast-food chains, tile-supply stores and — "Wow!" I shouted, "Look! The Brazen Head!"...

    Tags: Colleges and Universities, Literature, Rentals, The New York Times, Bill Clinton

    2. Sep 13, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. Add David Foster Wallace to 'unlikable' pantheon

    The last time filmmaker Jason Reitman came through town we got into a conversation about unlikable characters. He knows something about unlikable characters: "My first movie was about the head lobbyist for Big Tobacco ('Thank You for Smoking'), my second was about a sarcastic pregnant teenager ('Juno') and my third was about a guy who fires people for a living ('Up in the Air')."
    The last time filmmaker Jason Reitman came through town we got into a conversation about unlikable characters. He knows something about unlikable characters: "My first movie was about the head lobbyist for Big Tobacco ('Thank You for Smoking'), my...

    Tags: Illinois State University, Chicago Reader, Bachelorette (movie), Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), Fiction

    3. Dec 30, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. Alewives: Justin Bieber, Honey Boo Boo, Riccardo Muti and more

    Alewives are the stinky fish that used to wash up en masse on Lake Michigan beaches. So it is that we bring you the 17th annual Alewife Awards to commemorate the rankest cultural flotsam and jetsam to hit our shores over the past year.
    Alewives are the stinky fish that used to wash up en masse on Lake Michigan beaches. So it is that we bring you the 17th annual Alewife Awards to commemorate the rankest cultural flotsam and jetsam to hit our shores over the past year. Memo to vendors:...

    Tags: Golden Globe Awards, Sacha Baron Cohen, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Lady Gaga, Angus T. Jones

    4. Sep 14, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. A version of David Foster Wallace's life

    When the great English poet Philip Larkin worked at the University of Hull, he liked to say that the need to change trains in Doncaster meant most journalists, academics and other London irritants didn't bother to harass him.
    When the great English poet Philip Larkin worked at the University of Hull, he liked to say that the need to change trains in Doncaster meant most journalists, academics and other London irritants didn't bother to harass him. The American writer David...

    Tags: Illinois State University, The New York Times, Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, Unrest, Conflicts and War

    5. Aug 23, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  5. 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: Toy Industry, Literature, Michigan Avenue, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Politics

    6. Jun 21, 2012 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  6. Daum: 2012's pop song for grads

    Every year around this time, a few notable lines from a few notable commencement speeches start insinuating themselves into the canon of "words to live by." Recent favorites include Steve Jobs' 2005 speech at Stanford ("Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life"). Then there was Stephen Colbert's 2006 address at Knox College about "saying yes." Also in 2005 was David Foster Wallace's now-enshrined speech at Kenyon College, which discussed freedom, among other things, and which I won't even try to sum up in a single quote.
    Every year around this time, a few notable lines from a few notable commencement speeches start insinuating themselves into the canon of "words to live by." Recent favorites include Steve Jobs' 2005 speech at Stanford ("Your time is limited, so don't...

    Tags: College Sports, Steve Jobs, Stephen Colbert, Talk Shows (genre), Rush Limbaugh

    7. Jul 12, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  7. Literary Death Match: Henry Rollins not big on spoken word

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    Is spoken word poetry not literature? That's what, of all people, Henry Rollins seemed to say at an event in LA Wednesday night....
    8. Jun 4, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  8. Dolly Parton to publish new book, 'Dream More'

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    Country star Dolly Parton will publish a new book of inspirational wisdom, based on a commencement speech she gave in 2009....
    9. Apr 27, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  9. 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....
    10. Dec 23, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  10. R. Kelly still trapped in closet; Adam Lambert released from jail

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    R. Kelly has written 32 new chapters in his "Trapped in the Closet" saga, while "American Idol's" Adam Lambert was briefly detained in a Finnish jail after a bar fight with his boyfriend....
    11. Jan 5, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  11. A book trailer worth watching: Ben Marcus' 'Flame Alphabet' [video]

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    Is the book trailer for Ben Marcus' "The Flame Alphabet" good or not?...
    12. Feb 17, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  12. David Foster Wallace considered, at Pomona College Saturday

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    The work and legacy of David Foster Wallace will be the subject of a panel discussion with a critic, colleague and his biographer Saturday at Pomona College. The event is open to the public....
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