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Chicago Best Seller List for Week Ending August 23
Hardcover Fiction 1. The Help by Kathryn Stockett 2. That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo3. South of Broad by Pat Conroy4. The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larrson5. The White Queen by Phillippa Gregory Note: Russo is scheduled to discuss That Old Cape Magic as part of the Writers on the Record […]
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Chicago Best Seller List for the week ending August 9
Hardcover Fiction 1. The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson2. The Help by Kathryn Stockett3. That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo4. Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon5. The Amateurs by Marcus Sakey [Note: Russo is scheduled to discuss That Old Cape Magic as part of the Writers on the Record series on Wednesday, […]
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Let the Stars Do the Heavy Lifting
I have a new respect for the system of rating films by giving them stars: it can spare critics the bother of saying more than they need to say about a movie.
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Madam, I’m Adam
In this week’s issue, Cliff Doerksen reviews Max Mayer’s romantic comedy Adam, with Hugh Dancy as a young man who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome and Rose Byrne as the young woman who finds him attractive. “Like many films of its genre,” Cliff writes, “it’s less interesting as a movie than as a map of gender […]
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Meryl cast as Julia, Nora to direct
Meryl Streep is to play Julia Child in Nora Ephron’s upcoming adaptation of Julie & Julia.