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Review: "The Cooked Seed" by Anchee Min

2013-05-17 15:25:00

When I started reading Anchee Min's latest memoir, "The Cooked Seed," I presumed there would be many commonalities between her life journey in America and mine. We both emigrated from Shanghai — Min came over to the United States as a student in...

Moms' love for libraries anchors future

2013-05-15 00:00:00

What Lee Rainie and his team of researchers discovered about public libraries is less than a mind-blowing epiphany. Even he admits that. Yet, the subtle context in that discovery probably is key to keeping the nation's 16,000-plus libraries relevant...

Violence Community Conversation at the Chicago Tribune

2013-05-08 14:20:00

When Trib Nation put out the call to people interested in violence and why it has festered in Chicago, we found immediate and strong interest. Readers wanted to join the conversation. So did the heads of organizations, victim advocates, people who...

All branches of Chicago Public Library to close Thursday

2013-05-09 00:00:00

All branches of the Chicago Public Library — including the Harold Washington Library Center and the Woodson and Sulzer regional libraries — will be closed Thursday because the staff will be at a training program, library officials announced....

Authors A-C

2013-04-22 00:00:00

div.article div.byline p.date {display:none;} 826CHI 826CHI is a nonprofit writing and tutoring center dedicated to supporting students ages 6-18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students....

Authors M-Q

2013-04-22 12:55:00

div.article div.byline p.date {display:none;} Anthony Madrid Anthony Madrid lives in Chicago. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, Poetry and Web Conjunctions. His first book is “I Am Your Slave Now Do What I...

Authors R-Z

2013-04-22 12:54:00

div.article div.byline p.date {display:none;} Nathan Rabin Nathan Rabin is the head writer for The A.V. Club. His books include “The Big Rewind” and “My Year of Flops.” He also collaborated on “Weird Al: The Book.”...

5 things you might not know about CTR

2013-04-28 19:19:20

1. The name for his "#10Day" mixtape was inspired by his 10-day suspension from school for smoking marijuana off-campus. . 2. He is a charter member of the creative collective SAVEMONEY, which includes rappers Joey Purps, Caleb James, the band Kids...

Five books: Warming up with a festive high-five

2013-04-26 14:49:00

Printers Row Lit Fest announced its lineup earlier this week, and it's led by Judy Blume, the beloved children's book author who has helped several generations endure the agony of adolescence. Blume will receive the Chicago Tribune's Young Adult...

On first looking into the public library

2013-04-23 00:00:00

For 60 years, I looked down my nose at the public library, even though it's one of the key inventions and discoveries that lifted humans above lesser beings. Taming fire freed us from shivering in the cold. Agriculture filled our bellies. And the public...

Judy Blume to appear at Printers Row Lit Fest

2013-04-21 12:05:00

Children's/young-adult author Judy Blume and graphic novelist/cartoonist Art Spiegelman will be honored as part of this year's Printers Row Lit Fest, which runs June 8 and 9 in the South Loop. Blume, the author of such beloved works as "Are You There...

"The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration," by Isabel Wilkerson, right, is the Chicago Public Library's latest selection for "One Book, One Chicago."

2013-03-11 11:23:56

Artist Steve Musgrave, center, poses for a photo in front of his portrait of President Barack Obama at the Chicago Public Library West Pullman Branch during a public dedication. The portrait is hanging across from another Musgrave painting of A. Phillip Randolph. Ald.

2013-01-15 00:00:00

Nami Mun, who lives with her husband in Andersonville, was honored in October by the Chicago Public Library Foundation with the 21st Century Award. Mun, a Korean immigrant, went from being homeless to being an author and professor at Columbia College Chicago.

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