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“MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend” by Rachel Bertsche

May 9, 2019 at 3:22 p.m.

My one quibble with this book: Why didn't Rachel Bertsche call me? I would certainly have been her friend. New to Chicago, missing her lifetime besties on the East Coast,...

“I’m With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet”

May 9, 2019 at 3:21 p.m.

Famed naturalist and writer John Muir (a founder of the Sierra Club) once observed that if it ever came down to a war between the races, he would side with...

Stocking stuffers for all types

May 9, 2019 at 3:21 p.m.

Bachelor uncle who complains that the last good book he read was "Seabiscuit": "The Eighty Dollar Champion" by Elizabeth Letts, about a Dutch immigrant, the plow horse he rescues and...

‘The Tiger’s Wife’ by Tea Obreht

May 9, 2019 at 3:21 p.m.

Attention all book groups: "The Tiger's Wife" is an ideal book for discussion, and not only because of the handy reader's guide included, or because of the nifty conversation between...

‘Down From Cascom Mountain’ by Ann Joslin Williams

May 9, 2019 at 3:21 p.m.

At the center of this lovely novel is newlywed Mary Walker, who returns to the rural territory of her childhood with her new husband and a plan to restore the...

Tribune recognizes the word well-written

May 9, 2019 at 3:20 p.m.

On Nov. 3, 2002, Arthur Miller stepped up to the Armour Stage at Symphony Center, stood at the podium and read from his book "On Politics and the Art of...

“All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories” by E.L. Doctorow

May 9, 2019 at 3:20 p.m.

Lifetime achievement awards are often conferred on luminary figures toward the end of their lives, and not necessarily to people in full command of their powers. That's one reason we...

Author Anne Enright after an interview at the Sutton Place Hotel in Chicago, Friday, October 7, 2011.

Adultery, with a side order of economics

May 9, 2019 at 3:20 p.m.

In Chicago recently on tour for her new novel, "The Forgotten Waltz," Anne Enright seemed keener on the street scene than touting her book. From the perspective of the Whiskey...

‘You Deserve Nothing’ by Alexander Maksik

May 9, 2019 at 3:20 p.m.

Fans of "Good-Bye, Mr. Chips" and "Dead Poets Society" may be drawn to "You Deserve Nothing," for it shares the ever-rich context of a gifted teacher who inspires even troubled...

‘The New Yorker Stories’ by Ann Beattie

May 9, 2019 at 3:19 p.m.

Between the presidencies of Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford (1974) and George W. Bush (2006), Ann Beattie published 48 stories in The New Yorker, one of which was included in "The Best...

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