Friday, April 25, 2014
Did You Read __________? / News Did you read about Chicagoland, William Faulkner, and Sammy Sosa?
Posted By Reader staff on 04.25.14 at 11:35 AM
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- AP Photo/Darren Hauck
- Sammy Sosa wants to make amends.
Hey, did you read:
• That the mayor's office collaborated with the producers of CNN's Chicagoland to ensure Rahm wouldn't look bad? —Leor Galil
• The dish on your colon, from an interview with Mary Roach, author of Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal? —Tony Adler
• And on that note: that the late Gabriel García Márquez used to say, "The day when shit becomes worth something, the poor will be born without asses”? —Steve Bogira
• About the controversy surrounding a new book that claims to reveal the true source of William Faulkner's genius? —Aimee Levitt
• H.G. Wells interviewing Josef Stalin for the New Statesman in 1934? —Tal Rosenberg
• That pitchers ought not blatantly put pine tar on their neck for dabbing, A.J. Pierzynski says—they should put it on their pants, belt, cap, or glove? —Steve Bogira
• That Sammy Sosa wants to reconcile with the Cubs? —Mick Dumke
• About the trick that Jim Koch, cofounder of Boston Beer Company, uses to drink all day without getting drunk? —Julia Thiel
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