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Joyce Carol Oates to Headline Columbia College’s Story Week Festival of Writers
Joyce Carol Oates at the Harold Washington Library Center for Columbia College’s Story Week Festival of Writers
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Help Fund a Chicago Literary Hall of Fame
The Chicago Writers Association hosts Deck the Hall, a benefit for the proposed Chicago Literary Hall of Fame
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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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Marcus Sakey at Sheffield’s
Local crime novelist Marcus Sakey hosts a launch party at Sheffield’s (3258 N. Sheffield) for his new novel: “In his latest execution of the formula, The Amateurs (Dutton)–set against the backdrop of the corporate scandals of the late Bush years–four friends on Chicago’s north side conspire to commit the seemingly perfect crime, where the only […]