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Review: Jonathan Franzen's 'Farther Away' wants to bridge distance
Tribune newspapers-------------------- Farther Away Essays Jonathan Franzen Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 322 pp., $26 -------------------- I didn't much like Jonathan Franzen's essay "Farther Away" when I read it a year ago in the New Yorker. A complicated mishmash of a...Tags: Suicide, Manhattan (New York City), Alice Munro, Authors, Daniel Defoe
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On Sunday: Alain Mabanckou, Jonathan Franzen and lumber as history
Jacket CopyIn 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.... -
PK Harmon coming to Bottle Works
Award-winning poet PK Harmon and avant-garde fiction writer Halvor Aakhus will be reading from their new and forthcoming books at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 7 at Bottle Works Ethnic Arts Center. The event is free. Donations are encouraged and books...
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Championing a best-seller
Literary editorGreat books — not the ones rushed off the factory floor but the finely crafted, original works of imagination — can find an audience, if it finds a champion. In the case of "The Art of Fielding," that champion was a young literary agent, Chris...Tags: Baseball, Sports Illustrated, Harvard University, College Sports, Book
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The Chicago Tribune's favorite books of 2011
As 2011 comes to a close, we take a minute to reflect on the year's best in the world of publishing. Here is the list of our favorites, all published this year:
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"The Paris Wife" by Paula McLain
This gorgeous novel portrays the whirlwind...Tags: Charles Dickens, Julian Barnes, Amanda Foreman, Alzheimer's Disease, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
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R. Kelly still trapped in closet; Adam Lambert released from jail
Pop & HissR. 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.... -
A book trailer worth watching: Ben Marcus' 'Flame Alphabet' [video]
Jacket CopyIs the book trailer for Ben Marcus' "The Flame Alphabet" good or not?... -
David Foster Wallace considered, at Pomona College Saturday
Jacket CopyThe 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.... -
Carnivorism, parts II-IV
Change of SubjectBy Megan Crepeau Hey, remember that artificial meat post from Monday? The one we all agreed was nasty/awesome/awesomely nasty? Here's some more food for thought (THAT IS AN AWFUL JOKE I'M SO SORRY): "Headless Chickens" - An architecture student at...... -
Happy birthday, Edward Gorey! And more book news
Jacket CopyBook news: Edward Gorey's fur coat, David Foster Wallace remembered, a rare Action Comics No. 1 discovered, Justin Bieber to publish photo book, and Stephen Colbert's satirically bad children's book is on the way.... -
New David Foster Wallace material in 'The Pale King,' and online
Jacket CopyPreviously unpublished work by David Foster Wallace, who died in 2008, will appear in the upcoming paperback edition of The Pale King. Some is online now at The Millions.... -
No fiction award by Pulitzer Prize judges in 2012
Jacket CopyThe 2012 judges of the Pulitzer Prize have declined to award the prize to a work of fiction, although they have announced the three finalists. It has been 35 years since the last prize did not go awarded....
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