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    Dec 4, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Tablets: Downloadable classic books are in abundance

    Let's say you're getting, or giving, a new tablet or an e-reader (iPad, Kobo, Nook or Kindle Fire) for the holidays. Here's an idea for what to do with it: Load it first with free books. Thanks to Project Gutenberg, as well as the cultural gift known as public domain, you can build a library, as I have, with a variety of classic literature, gratis: Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year," Benjamin Franklin's "Autobiography," Kate Chopin's "The Awakening." It's enough to make you believe in the free flow of ideas.
    Let's say you're getting, or giving, a new tablet or an e-reader (iPad, Kobo, Nook or Kindle Fire) for the holidays. Here's an idea for what to do with it: Load it first with free books. Thanks to Project Gutenberg, as well as the cultural gift known as...

    Tags: Herman Melville, Arts and Culture, Apple iPad, Benjamin Franklin, Occupy Wall Street

    2. Jul 22, 2011 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. "So Long, See You Tomorrow" by William Maxwell

    A boy moves away from his small-town central Illinois home after his father murders a tenant farmer. Years later, an occasional childhood playmate ignores the boy in a high school corridor. Out of that awkward, wordless moment emerged "So Long, See You Tomorrow," William Maxwell's graceful swan of a novel.
    Literary editor
    A boy moves away from his small-town central Illinois home after his father murders a tenant farmer. Years later, an occasional childhood playmate ignores the boy in a high school corridor. Out of that awkward, wordless moment emerged "So Long, See You...

    Tags: Elizabeth Taylor, Eudora Welty, Human Interest, Vladimir Nabokov, Illinois

    3. Mar 18, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Book review: 'At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing,' edited by George Kimball and John Schulian

    At the Fights
    Special to the Los Angeles Times
    At the Fights American Writers on Boxing Edited by George Kimball & John Schulian Library of America: 517 pp., $35 Part freak show, part sitcom, part mortal combat — ah, yes, behold the world of professional prizefighting, the face-break...

    Tags: Jane Austen, Ring Lardner Jr., Journalism, World War I (1914-1918), Unrest, Conflicts and War

    4. May 29, 2011 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  4. 10 things you might not know about Chicago authors

    There's no point in getting wordy, so we'll simply remind you that the Tribune-sponsored 27th annual Printers Row Lit Fest takes place June 4-5. For now, here are 10 "chapters" of Chicago lit:
    There's no point in getting wordy, so we'll simply remind you that the Tribune-sponsored 27th annual Printers Row Lit Fest takes place June 4-5. For now, here are 10 "chapters" of Chicago lit: 1 Ben Hecht, who co-wrote the play "The Front Page" and was a...

    Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Journalism, Ernest Hemingway, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Humboldt Park

    5. Feb 13, 2010 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. "Maud Martha" by Gwnedolyn Brooks

    Gwendolyn Brooks is known as a great poet. Poet Laureate of Illinois from 1968 until her death in 2000, she won the Pulitzer Prize for "Annie Allen" in 1950. She was the first African-American to win the prize and continued to collect accolades for her poetry until she died.
    Literary editor
    Gwendolyn Brooks is known as a great poet. Poet Laureate of Illinois from 1968 until her death in 2000, she won the Pulitzer Prize for "Annie Allen" in 1950. She was the first African-American to win the prize and continued to collect accolades for her...

    Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Elizabeth Taylor, Colleges and Universities, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Poetry

    6. Jun 1, 2011 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. Review: "Volt" by Alan Heathcock

    Special to Tribune Newspapers
    Volt: Stories By Alan Heathcock Graywolf. $15.00,  208 pages Eight stories, by native Chicagoan Alan Heathcock, who lives and works in Idaho, where he seems to have found in that mostly rural state great inspiration in the pathetic and maniacal denizens...

    Tags: Human Interest, Illinois, Ohio, Flannery O'Connor, Idaho

    7. Nov 1, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  7. Are Marilyn Monroe's musings worthwhile?

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    The much-photographed, much-filmed Marilyn Monroe has been dead since 1962. So does she have anything new to tell us? A little bit. "Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes and Letters by Marilyn Monroe" is just what it says it is, according to......
    8. Oct 15, 2010 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. "The Spot" by David Means

    "The Spot"
    Special to the Tribune
    "The Spot" By David Means Faber and Faber, $23.00, 166 pages It’s always interesting, I think, to notice the way in which we first discover the fine work of seriously gifted short story writers and novelists. Most of them don’t start out...

    Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Murder, Los Angeles Times, Assault, Richard Ford

    9. Dec 17, 2010 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. 5 questions for the new 'Pickles'

    "Step High, Stoop Low, Leave Your Dignity Outside."
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    "Step High, Stoop Low, Leave Your Dignity Outside." This phrase appeared on the door of the historic Dill Pickle Club, a social club founded in 1914, which moved into its club space on Tooker Alley off Dearborn Street in 1915, according to records at the...

    Tags: Kenneth Rexroth, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Carl Sandburg, St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929)

    10. Jun 1, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  10. Happy birthday, Marilyn Monroe

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    Happy 85th birthday, Marilyn Monroe, reader of Ulysses and Bertrand Russell....
    11. Aug 2, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. For so-and-so, with love

    <i>"For Sherrell, Who's helped show me the way from my earliest recollections, and whose love and spirit -- abundant in every way -- are a large part of the life behind this book and the life in this book. My Love Always, Roy. Old Chatham, NY, 12/25/82."</i>
    "For Sherrell, Who's helped show me the way from my earliest recollections, and whose love and spirit -- abundant in every way -- are a large part of the life behind this book and the life in this book. My Love Always, Roy. Old Chatham, NY, 12/25/82." On...

    Tags: Eudora Welty, Gaming, Alabama, Children, Muriel Rukeyser

    12. Apr 27, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Book of beasts

    <b>By Nick Owchar </b>
    By Nick Owchar Like many an excellent chronicler of village life, Lauren Groff gives us early in "The Monsters of Templeton" (Voice/Hyperion: 364 pp., $24.95) an ensemble view of the citizens of Templeton, a place very closely modeled on Cooperstown, N....

    Tags: Family, Science, Stranger Than Fiction, Nicholas Christopher, Children

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