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July 24, 2013
Thirteen diverse novels have been nominated for this year’s Man Booker prize, Britain’s most prestigious literary award. Robert MacFarlane, the chairman of judges, said the books “range from the traditional to the experimental, from the first century A.D. to the present day, from 100 pages to 1,000 and from Shanghai to Hendon.” The winner will […]
July 18, 2013
In today’s Chicago Trib Business section, Mugambi Mutegi reported on the closing of O’Gara & Wilson, a fine old Hyde Park institution that has served the local community as well as the University of Chicago faculty and students since the 1960s. Doug Wilson (who apprenticed with founder Joseph O’Gara and later became co-owner) and his staff are currently […]
July 17, 2013
I love these stories about different book venues! Here’s another one: a pop-up bookstore under the train tracks in Brooklyn at Metropolitan Ave. What an improvement over donuts, chotchkes, sports items, etc. (Nothing wrong with these items, but bookstores are special!) This shop offers independently printed materials, so it aims to fill a niche. The down side– it’s only […]
July 15, 2013
The secret’s out: The Cuckoo’s Calling, a debut detective novel published in April under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith turns out to have been written by J.K. Rowling. The Sunday Times of London uncovered the truth by doing its own detective work, finding similarities with Ms. Rowling’s earlier novel The Casual Vacancy. You can read the […]
July 11, 2013
The 2013 National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal were given to two dozen recipients in a ceremony at the White House on Wednesday. President Obama, who awarded these most prestigious arts awards, said that the honorees “have taught us about ourselves and about our world.” The winners included authors Joan Didion and […]
July 11, 2013
We are pleased to introduce local painter Vincent Brent as the next featured artist in our ongoing exhibition series Local Art @ EPL. From now through the end of July, his latest collection will be on display on the 2nd floor of EPL’s Main Library. You can view more of Mr. Brent’s work by visiting […]
July 10, 2013
These ads are so old, they’re before my time! We probably will never know how effective this PR was, but they’re fun to see. How do these compare to the celebrity “READ’ posters from ALA? Shira S.
July 10, 2013
A 12-foot tall fiberglass statue of Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy was installed in London’s Hyde Park lake early this week startling passers-by, swans, and swimmers. The statue, showing Darcy from the waist up wearing a clinging wet shirt, is on display to promote Drama, a new British TV channel which will rebroadcast the popular six-part […]
July 7, 2013
Before the last part of the “Divergent” trilogy, “Allegiant,” will be published in October, Veronica Roth will start publishing 4 e-stories about Four’s history from his point of view. The first story about Tobias (or Four) should be available September 24 and the others will appear over the next few months. Each will be 30 pages long and sell […]
July 2, 2013
Richard Ford and Timothy Egan have won this year’s Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence for the best fiction and non-fiction works. Ford won for his novel Canada which is narrated by the teen son of bank robbers. Egan won for his biography of photographer Edward Curtis Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher. The medals were […]
