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Barbara, left, and sister Jane Greer before attending a book tour for Rush lead vocalist Geddy Lee, Dec. 3, 2023, in Chicago.

Geddy Lee and the radical decency of Rush fans: Gathered in Chicago for one night only

December 6, 2023 at 5:30 a.m.

Geddy Lee — or rather, as his touching new memoir, "My Effin' Life," makes plain, the man born with so many family names, nicknames and colloquial derivations of names, his...

Chicago architect Ryan Chester's obsessive drawings of the Chicago River and its buildings have become an 11-foot accordion-style book from University of Chicago Press, Nov. 14, 2023.

He started sketching the Chicago River and just kept going. His 55-foot sketch of the city is now a book.

December 6, 2023 at 10:14 a.m.

"I can't stop," Ryan Chester said, seated in a window of the Wrigley Building, the south side of the Chicago Riverwalk stretching out before him, scattered with tourists and workers...

Roz Chast, the longtime New Yorker cartoonist is photographed at the Marriott in Naperville, Nov. 15, 2023.

Cartoonist Roz Chast explores the history of dreams in her new book ‘I Must Be Dreaming’

December 1, 2023 at 10:30 a.m.

The other day I met The New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast in a dream. We weren't on a cloud or walking through Italy or anything. It wasn't that kind of...

Three great artful gifts: "The New Brownies' Book," an update of a W.E.B. Du Bois classic for kids; the first major retrospective of Chicago artist Simone Leigh; and the latest Phaidon art survey "Latin American Artists."

Holiday books 2023: 50 books that make great gifts from hip hop histories to Christmas ghost stories

November 30, 2023 at 5:45 a.m.

Stephen Nissenbaum, in his terrific 1997 history of the holiday season, "The Battle for Christmas," goes briefly in search of the very first advertisement for Christmas presents — the Yuletide...

Travelers Aid service desk volunteer Jon Ziomek customizes a map for a traveler in Terminal 3.

O’Hare Airport’s information desks are staffed by volunteers — and they’ve seen it all

November 22, 2023 at 10:03 a.m.

The holidays are stressful, but it could be worse. You could work in an airport. In one of the busiest airports in the world. For free. You could work in...

Musician Jeff Tweedy in Chicago on Oct. 1, 2020. His new book is "World Within a Song."

Picking through my awkward vinyl past with Jeff Tweedy, whose new book is ‘World Within a Song’

November 20, 2023 at 10:19 a.m.

The road manager for Jeff Tweedy looked at me as if he were being solicited at the airport. Or rather, it was a look I'm guessing he reserves for those...

Jerry Seinfeld performs at a 2023 Good+Foundation benefit event at Carnegie Hall in New York City on Oct. 18, 2023.

Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan at the United Center: Every little thing they do is magic

November 10, 2023 at 9:30 a.m.

Here are some of the topics that Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan talked about at the United Center on Thursday night: Marriage, brunch, vacations, children's movies, horses, circuses, cemeteries, golf...

Images by Ted Serios as published in the new book "Ted Serios: The Mind's Eye," with foreword by Paul Roth, published by Atelier Éditions as a companion to the exhibition at the Image Centre museum at Toronto Metropolitan University.

A Chicago bellhop claimed to create photos with his thoughts. No one could prove they weren’t real.

November 7, 2023 at 2:51 p.m.

Ted Serios was a bellhop at the Conrad Hilton Hotel on Michigan Avenue, though probably not the kind of employee they expected. When he worked as a valet, he had...

Henry Winkler at Loews Chicago O'Hare Hotel on Aug. 13, 2023, in Rosemont.

Could anyone wear his fame more comfortably than Henry Winkler?

October 30, 2023 at 1:42 p.m.

Henry Winkler's smile is the smile of an old friend seeing you for the first time in years, or a smile of sincere affection for an unexpected new friend, or...

People shop at the Newberry Book Fair in 2018.

Out of print: After nearly 40 years, Newberry Book Fair is done

October 19, 2023 at 3:31 p.m.

There is no shortage of used books in this city. You can find them in informal little libraries in neighborhood parks, and in community libraries requiring library cards, and in...

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