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Sometimes it seems that everybody loves to talk, and nobody likes to listen. "Ties That Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of StoryCorps" challenges that...
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‘My Mistake’ by Daniel Menaker is this week’s Editor’s Choice
At the epicenter of literary New York, Daniel Menaker is an irreverent guide to the publishing world's inner workings. In "My Mistake," Menaker, who worked 26 years at The New...
‘My Mistake’ by Daniel Menaker is this week’s Editor’s Choice
At the epicenter of literary New York, Daniel Menaker is an irreverent guide to the publishing world's inner workings. In "My Mistake," Menaker, who worked 26 years at The New...
Editor’s choice
Confession: Even though a trusted friend with excellent literary taste told me about "A Reader's Book of Days" by Tom Nissley, my eyes glazed over. If I want to know...
Thomas Dyja’s ‘The Third Coast’ awarded nonfiction Heartland Prize
In awarding the 2013 Heartland Prize for Nonfiction to "The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream" by Thomas Dyja, the Tribune celebrates an important cultural history of mid-20th...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘Americanah’ awarded fiction Heartland Prize
In awarding the baiduhai Heartland Prize for Fiction to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "Americanah," we recognize a novel that engages with important ideas about race, and does so with style,...
“Local Souls” by Allan Gurganus
It's a literary parlor game: Is Allan Gurganus the descendant of William Faulkner or Eudora Welty? Or was it one of the Johns: Updike? O'Hara? Cheever? As tempting as it...
‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’ by Helen Fielding
Monday 23 April 2012 176lb (oh God), Twitter followers 0. 9:15 p.m. Cannot figure out how to put up photo. Is just empty egg-shaped graphic. Is fine! Can be photo...
‘Cartwheel’ by Jennifer duBois
The Amanda Knox case — foreign exchange student charged with murdering her roommate — remains in the news as an Italian court prepares to retry her in absentia. Despite the...
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The encouragement of a friend led me to Steve Yarbrough's "The Realm of Last Chances," and though I initially resisted — I was skeptical about another midlife couple story —...