CAMP SPIRIT
As a 12-year-old exposed to the slings, arrows and frequently outrageous misfortunes of summer camp, Reynolds Price suffered nothing worse than a ''fairly serious case of homesickness, which I managed...
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BOOK WEEK PROGRAM SLATED
Novelist Bill Granger will team up with Secretary of State Jim Edgar at noon Monday to set off the local observance of National Book Week. Edgar, who`s also the state...
MOSLEM DEATH THREATS TURN NOVEL INTO CITY`S BEST SELLER
Controversy over the novel ''The Satanic Verses,'' which spurred Moslem leaders abroad to call for author Salman Rushdie`s execution, has disturbed Chicago`s Islamic community and prompted a run that sold...
A MAN OF MYSTERY TELLS OF DOWN UNDER
No sooner had novelist Rodney Hall arrived in Chicago from his native Australia than he asked an urgent favor of his hostess: Could she possibly get him a ticket to...
TOLAND ON BILL OF LINCOLNWOOD LIBRARY FESTIVAL
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who has written his first novel will appear with two other noted novelists at the Lincolnwood Library Literary Festival, May 18-19. John Toland, who received a...