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Writing the epilogue
Last Saturday night, as the hordes gathered on and about Michigan Avenue to celebrate the lighting of lights and the beginning of the gift-buying season, a few hundred members of the Chicago literary community settled into the seats in the handsome...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Human Interest, Illinois, Saul Bellow, Lorraine Hansberry
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Through a lens
It goes without saying, though I'll say it anyway, that Charles Osgood is my favorite photographer, but it was nice to see many other great Tribune photographers gathered Tuesday in the Tower, talking about their work in a new book, "Chicago in Season."...Tags: Thomas Masters, Charlton Heston, Arts and Culture, Journalism, Photography
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Why Algren awards matter
Literary editorWhy should a newspaper, committed to the pursuit of facts, holding itself to the highest standards of accuracy and fairness, give prizes for fiction? We grapple with this sort of question every year when the short story entries for the Nelson Algren...Tags: Arts and Culture, Eudora Welty, Studs Terkel, Literature, Television Industry
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December 30: Author - Larry Bennett Talks About His Book, The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism
WGN NewsThe Third City To purchase a copy of the book: The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism (Chicago Visions and Revisions) When Richard M. Daley was elected mayor of Chicago, the city was paralyzed by political infighting and mismanagement. It had...Tags: Millennium Park, Crimes, WGN, Politics, Mike Royko
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Contest judges share advice and their favorite stories
Short stories may be magical creations, but writers need more than a wand. Judges of the 2010 Nelson Algren contest answer two questions about the craft of writing. The judges: •Peter Ho Davies, a professor at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor'...Tags: George Saunders, Judges, Education, Continuing Education, James Joyce
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Winning idea was written on the back of a hall pass
At Rattlesnake Middle School in Missoula, Mont., Baird Harper was the cool sixth-grade special education teaching assistant, but he was also thinking, and listening, like a writer.
One idea, scribbled on the back of a hall pass six years ago, morphed...Tags: Ravenswood, Facebook, Fiction, Elizabeth Taylor, Vehicles
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June 7: Author - Reginald Gibbons Talks About His Book, Slow Trains Overhead
WGN NewsFew people writing today could successfully combine an intimate knowledge of Chicago with a poet's eye, and capture what it's really like to live in this remarkable city. Embracing a striking variety of human experience--a chance encounter with a...Tags: WGN, Poetry, Carl Sandburg
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The Tallest Man on Earth picks five of his favorite songs, plays First Fridays
Pop & HissLet’s just get it out of the way. The Tallest Man on Earth, the nom de folk of Kristian Matsson, sounds eerily like early Bob Dylan. The pre-Newport, pre-electric Bobby D, with a head haunted by crooked streets and expensive...... -
'Dead Letter Office' by Dog & Pony: You can guess where it's headed before it's delivered
The Theater LoopTHEATER REVIEW: "Dead Letter Office" ★★ Through July 18 at Storefront Theatre, 66 E. Randolph St.; Running time: 2 hours; Tickets: $22 at 312-742-8497 or www.dogandponychicago.org. With Kristen Magee and John Fenner Mays. There are bottles of booze,... -
'This Train' in the Steppenwolf Garage: Riding the Chicago rails with Tony Fitzpatrick
The Theater LoopTHEATER REVIEW "This Train" ★★½ Through Aug. 1 in Steppenwolf’s Merle Reskin Garage Theatre, 1624 N. Halsted St.; Running Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes; Tickets: 312-335-1650 Despite occupying the Steppenwolf Garage Theatre for only about 90 minutes, â€... -
'Girls of Murder City' a new account of the blood and ink spilled in writing 'Chicago'
The Theater LoopBOOK REVIEW In 1924, the Cook County Jail was full of beautiful young women, alleged man-killers all. Some in Murder City — otherwise known as Chicago — lamented that this exploding town's young women appeared to have suddenly gone crazy,...... -
Beach Haven
I wasn't due for another month when my water broke. Neal and I lay there naked and shocked in a puddle of amniotic fluid. We were an hour from the hospital, at Neal's house in Beach Haven. The bedroom was warm but my teeth chattered. "Oh, God," I said....Tags: Hair and Nails, Atlantic Ocean, Tourism and Leisure, Colleges and Universities, Freckles (complexion)
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