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Out of print: After nearly 40 years, Newberry Book Fair is done
Volunteers for the Newberry said no alternative to the popular annual used book fair was offered or discussed.
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Biblioracle: Top 5 hockey books, because where else is a Chicago sports fan to turn?
I am trying to remember a darker time in my 50-plus years of Chicago sports fandom.
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Library, high school teaming up to bring literature festival to Evergreen Park
The Evergreen Park Public Library and Evergreen Park Community High School are teaming up to organize a literary festival for teens.
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Biblioracle: Despite a pile of fall books to read, I’m taking my time with Paul Murray’s ‘The Bee Sting’
It's the story of the Barnes family in a smallish Irish town. To appreciate what this book is doing, you have to read every word.
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Biblioracle: A group of boldface-name authors sue OpenAI for ChatGPT copyright infringement
I honestly don’t know if what OpenAI has done in creating ChatGPT constitutes fair use, and I’m not sure anyone else does either.
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Biblioracle: Reading can help you explore the world. John McPhee’s ‘Tabula Rasa’ is just such a book.
“Tabula Rasa” both demystifies what it means to write about the world and deepens one’s pleasure as to the many mysteries inherent to writing.
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Cyber attack on Anderson’s Bookshop ticket company crashes system during sale for Rebecca Yarros event in Naperville
Ticket sales for a highly anticipated meet-and-greet with bestselling author Rebecca Yarros at Anderson’s Bookshop were put on hold after the Naperville store’s ticketing partner suffered a cyber attack.
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Biblioracle: From Cody Rigsby to Emma Lovewell, your favorite Pelaton instructors have written books
Looking at the array of books perhaps illustrates why Peloton has become so popular. There’s a connection to be had for everyone.
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Books for fall 2023: Our 75 top picks for serious reading season — and there’s plenty of light stuff here too
If you're a Chicago know-it-all or an armchair criminal, or if you like short stories and movies and hate memoirs, we have titles for you.
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Biblioracle: Amazon is a huge bookseller. Can it be fair?
It may soon be investigated for possible violations of antitrust laws.
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Bob Odenkirk, Millie Bobby Brown and Henry Winkler to sign books at Anderson’s in Naperville
Several celebrity authors will be mingling with fans this fall courtesy of Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville.
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Book provider in Lake Bluff that helps at-risk students suffers warehouse damage in storm
Bernie's Book Bank is seeking donations to replenish materials destroyed or made unusable materials during a fast-moving storm Tuesday.
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One Book, One Chicago’s 2023 title is ‘There There’ by Tommy Orange
This year’s book selected for the Chicago Public Library’s program is a novel set in a California Native American community.
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New book details frictions between Barack Obama and Joe Biden
Released Tuesday and written by Franklin Foer, a staff writer for The Atlantic, the book says Biden said Obama was unable to deliver a “f—- you” with “the right elongation of vowels and the necessary hardness of consonants; it was how they must curse in the ivory tower.”
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Bird, Magic, Isiah and Michael are the basketball stars of Rich Cohen’s ‘When the Game Was War’
As few have ever known or realized, the 1987-88 NBA season featured the most future Hall of Famers competing at one time.
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Biblioracle: ‘Harry Potter’-mania had young people reading books for fun. Why has that stopped?
According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress report, the percentage of students who “read for fun” every day has declined from 27% in 2012 to 14% in 2023.
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Chicago intersex activist, who won a historic victory at Lurie Children’s Hospital, talks about life and a new memoir
Pidgeon Pagonis, author of “Nobody Needs to Know,” endured cosmetic genital surgery as a child who was born intersex — not typically male or female.
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Biblioracle: 5 new books you shouldn’t miss this fall
There is a veritable flood of books coming from authors whose books I’ve enjoyed, but haven’t published a novel in a long time.
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Biblioracle: Author Jane Friedman’s reputation was on the line. AI was the culprit.
Amazon first responded with a shoulder shrug.
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Evanston author falls into a whale! Lives to tell about it! (And then some!)
“Whalefall" by Daniel Kraus is the hot new book of the moment. It tells a strange tale. But not impossible?