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Jerome Pohlen on being an ‘Oddball’
James Frank Kotera, or the real "JFK" as he calls himself, stopped drinking on April 3, 1975. Four years later, he weaved a new hobby into his life. He hasn't...
O’Gara & Wilson books it out of town
Tucked away on shady 57th street in Hyde Park, just blocks from the University of Chicago campus, is O'Gara & Wilson bookshop. The store has been on this street, in...
Sarah Bruni talks about ‘The Night Gwen Stacy Died’
Just after the lunch rush on a Tuesday in 2007, a Quiznos franchise in the Loop got an unexpected customer: a coyote. The docile creature walked into the restaurant at...
The Rock Bottom Remainders rock out in ‘Hard Listening’
On a warm spring night in 1992, the Rock Bottom Remainders took the stage at the Cowboy Boogie in Anaheim, Calif. With more than a dozen best-seling authors, including Dave...
Edward Albee wins Tribune’s top award for writing
Edward Albee is known as a vaunted playwright. But really he's a relationship expert. For more than 50 years, Albee's work has examined the tenuous bonds that bring couples, friends...
Edward Albee wins Tribune’s top award for writing
Edward Albee is known as a vaunted playwright. But really he's a relationship expert. For more than 50 years, Albee's work has examined the tenuous bonds that bring couples, friends...
Nathan Rabin finds his rhythm in ‘You Don’t Know Me But You Don’t Like Me’
Nathan Rabin once had two distinct personas. The first was a snarky master of detachment hoping to score points off people with jokes and jabs. The other was a compassionate...
Review: ‘Photograph’ by Ringo Starr
There may be hundreds of books about the Beatles, but there isn't one quite like Ringo Starr's "Photograph." This new e-book allows readers to not only marvel at Starr's personal...
Review: ‘How to Be a Playgirl’ by Jessanne Collins
On Jessanne Collins' first day at her new job, she found her cubicle already occupied. "Straddling the chair, one peach-Crayola colored arm draped casually over the armrest, was a blow-up...