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Village Green Book Club
Our group is made up of men and women in their 50s to 80s who live in the Village Green Condominiums of Lincolnshire. Our monthly meetings last about 90 minutes, and six to 13 members attend.
Our readers include business people, homemakers and retirees...Tags: Literature, Arts and Culture, Clubs and Associations, World War II (1939-1945), Amy Bloom
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From politics to poetry
Tribune NewspapersIt's tempting, looking at the fall's books, to think of this as a political season. Dick Cheney got it started with "In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir," and Joe McGinnis pitched in with "The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin." (That...Tags: College Baseball, Haruki Murakami, Journalism, Christopher Hitchens, Trinidad and Tobago
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Fall book preview
Tribune newspapersIt's tempting, looking at the fall's books, to think of this as a political season. Dick Cheney got it started with "In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir," and in November we'll see a different (and perhaps conflicting?) take when Condoleezza...Tags: College Baseball, Haruki Murakami, Michele Bachmann, Journalism, Christopher Hitchens
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'Marriage Plot' gives new twist to old tale
Special to Tribune NewspapersThe trouble with love triangles is, somebody almost always has to lose. This is a defect in real life, so why shouldn't it be a problem in fiction too? The endings of Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" and James L. Brooks' "Broadcast News" each got...Tags: Family, Bipolar Disorder, Entertainment Events, Brown University, Literature
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Looking for love, by the book
"The Marriage Plot" by Jeffrey Eugenides, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 406 pages, $28. Jeffrey Eugenides won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for his novel "Middlesex." In "The Marriage Plot," Madeleine Hanna, an English literature major at Brown University, is...Tags: Family, Fiction, Brown University, Literature, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Story: An evening with Jeffrey Eugenides
Some things are made to order when it comes to themes of near-universal interest: love, romance, coming of age. And yes, hard times for hope when adult life gets under way during recessionary economic times.
How rich the experience, then, for those who...Tags: Family, Education, Fiction, Brown University, Literature
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Trib Nation programs all year long
I've been looking back over the previous year of Trib Nation events -- our multimedia department put together this short video -- and it's been fun to relive some of those moments with you.
John Kass cooks a pig and talks about politics. Our national/...Tags: Wrigley Field, Facebook, Caroline Kennedy, John Kass, Soldier Field
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New class of Whiting Award winners announced
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Interview: Jeffrey Eugenides on writing in C major
Jacket CopyJeffrey Eugenides, author of "The Marriage Plot," says: "Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be."... -
The Last Wednesday of the Month Club
Our club began: about 13 years ago when a few members of our original group, led by Allen Schwartz (teacher and former fine arts commissioner in Skokie), decided to continue reading and discussing books after he died. We resolved to establish a group...Tags: Literature, Arts and Culture, Saint Petersberg (Russia), Celebrities and Health Issues, Dave Eggers
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The good, the bad and the other bad: the Moby book trailer awards
Jacket CopyA look at book trailers - the good, the awful and what's missing from the Moby awards....
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Original site for Jeffrey Eugenides topic gallery.
