Studs Lonigan (fictional character)

Yankees Fire Casey Stengel!

2010-10-19 04:32:46

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'Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression' by Morris Dickstein

2009-09-13 00:00:00

Morris Dickstein's "Dancing in the Dark" is not exactly the syncretic "Cultural History of the Great Depression" that its subtitle promises -- at best, the book treats inferentially the broad political and social trends of that desperate, crucial era. Let...

Matt Weinstock, April 6, 1960

2010-04-06 16:32:59

Studs Terkel, writer and radio personality, dies at 96

2008-11-01 00:00:00

Studs Terkel, who made his name listening to ordinary folks talk about their ordinary lives -- and who turned that knack for conversation into a much-honored literary career -- died Friday. He was 96. Terkel died of old age at his home in Chicago, his...

Studs Terkel dies

2008-10-31 16:48:00

Louis Terkel arrived here as a child from New York City and in Chicago found not only a new name but a place that perfectly matched--in its energy, its swagger, its charms, its heart--his own personality. They made a perfect and enduring pair. Author-...

Chicago by the book

1999-05-12 17:16:00

Perhaps the reason Chicago has so few literary shrines is because it has been home to so many writers. Towns with only one claim to fame canonize local heroes: Salinas, Calif., turned John Steinbeck's boyhood home into a museum, while Hannibal, Mo.,...

Touring haunts of local writers

1999-05-26 11:35:00

Perhaps Chicago has so few literary shrines because it has been home to so many writers. Towns with only one claim to fame canonize local heroes: Salinas, Calif., turned John Steinbeck's boyhood home into a museum, while Hannibal, Mo., devoted several...

Callaway on Callaway

2001-03-16 00:00:00

Can a country-boy-turned-big-city-journalist reinvent himself one more time?" The question was posed in 1999 by - and about - John Callaway in his farewell broadcast after 15 years on "Chicago Tonight," a news discussion show he had made into acclaimed...

In " Studs Lonigan " and many other novels, the prolific James T. Farrell epitomized the tough-minded Chicago style of fiction.

2008-09-09 16:10:35

In 'Studs Lonigan' and many other novels, the prolific James T. Farrell epitomized the tough-minded Chicago style of fiction.

2008-01-04 15:16:24