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This seems to be a banner year for Chicago universities in snaring topflight writers-in-residence. At Northwestern, Alex Kotlowitz (“There Are No Children Here”) is holding forth during winter quarter, while spring brings Arthur Golden, author of the red-hot “Memoirs of a Geisha.” Columbia College Chicago welcomes Dorothy Allison (“Bastard out of Carolina”) while DePaul hosts Anne Calcagno, she of the prize-winning short story collection “Pray for Yourself.” Meanwhile, eminent science writer Dava Sobel (“Galileo’s Daughter”) is at the University of Chicago.
