Two from Oak Park and River Forest High School net Hemingway Foundation writing awards
Two promising young writers from Oak Park and River Forest High School have been honored...
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Chicago-born Patti Smith is the winner of this year’s Harold Washington Literary Award
Singer and author Patti Smith will return to Chicago in September to accept the award...
Column: Ready to travel into the secret life of Garry Trudeau and ‘Doonesbury’?
A biography delves into the private life of the "Doonesbury" cartoonist. We spent a day...
Biblioracle: Reading Ben Lerner’s new novel ‘Transcription’ was an indelible experience
Clocking in at a slim 130 pages structured across three sections, “Transcription” indeed triggered several...
Philip Caputo, Pulitzer Prize-winning Tribune investigative reporter and bestselling author, dies at 84
The onetime foreign correspondent's 1977 memoir, “A Rumor of War,” laid bare his searing experiences...
New director of equity and anti-racism at Oak Park Public Library is ready to grow with her community
Shalonda Lane, Oak Park Public Library's new director of equity and anti-racism, said diversity, equity...
Landmarks: A Hindenburg survivor’s legacy lives on at his Homewood home and a Saint Xavier University dorm
Nelson Morris, of Homewood, was one of four Chicago area passengers on the doomed Hindenburg...
Chicago is a city made of its own brick: A new book says that was a stroke of luck
Brick expert Will Quam's book "Fire and Clay" details the ways in which bricks "reveal...
David Sedaris on writing: AI doesn’t scare him but New Yorker copy editors do
David Sedaris realized he wanted to write for a living and read his stories to...
Column: New book takes us back to the night Geraldo Rivera opened Al Capone’s vault on live TV
Al Capone has been back in the news recently because April 21 was the 40th...