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Blogs, Bleader Feb 2, 2015
The Time Traveler's Wife vs. Working: Greatest Chicago Book Tournament, round two

How to choose between two books? A judge seeks guidance from Virginia Woolf: "our taste, the nerve of sensation that sends shocks through us, is our chief illuminant."
- By Peggy Shinner
- Tags: Greatest Chicago Book, Books, Arts, Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger, Working, Studs Terkel, Virginia Woolf

Blogs, Bleader Jan 23, 2015
So what is a great Chicago book anyway?

Some more thoughts about greatness and Chicago-ness at our tournament's halfway point.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Greatest Chicago Book, Books, Arts, Seminary Coop, Mike Royko, Richard J. Daley, Studs Terkel, Boss, Working, Isabel Wilkerson, Warmth of Other Suns, Building Stories, Book of My Lives, Divergent, Time Traveler's Wife, Saint Louis, New York, Upton Sinclair, Jane Addams, Stuart Dybek, Sandra Cisneros, Audrey Niffenegger, Chris Ware, Aleksandar Hemon, Sister Carrie

Blogs, Bleader Jan 13, 2015
It's time to vote in round two of the Greatest Chicago Book Tournament

Start voting for the next round in our book tournament!
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Greatest Chicago Book, Books, Arts, book tournament, Chicago books, The Jungle, Warmth of Other Suns, Chicago: City on the Make, Boss, Time Traveler's Wife, Working, I Sailed With Magellan, House on Mango Street

Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2014
Divergent vs. The Time Traveler's Wife: Greatest Chicago Book Tournament round one

Can a tale of true love and time travel beat out a tale of true love and dystopian alternative reality?
- By Marvin Tate
- Tags: Greatest Chicago Book, Books, Arts, Divergent, Time Traveler's Wife, Veronica Roth, Audrey Niffenegger, Marvin Tate, time travel

Blogs, Bleader Dec 10, 2009
Chicago Best Sellers for Week Ending December 6

what's hot in local bookstores
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Books, Too Much Happiness, Alice Munro, The Help, Kathryn Stockett, The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver, Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger, Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, Rhoda Janzen, SuperFreakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Half the Sky, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Open, Andre Agassi, Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson, Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout, Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows, Precious, Sapphire, Time Traveler's Wife, The Blind Side, Michael Lewis, Logicomix, Apostolos Doxiadis, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, Dave Eggers, Reakonomics, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Jon Meacham

Blogs, Bleader Sep 12, 2009
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"Fragmentary Bits" of Chris Hefner's "The Pink Hotel"

Excerpts from Chris Hefner's in-progress experimental feature "The Pink Hotel" screen with his short films and video loops, Saturday 9/12, 9 PM to Midnight at Swimming Pool Project Space, 2858 W. Montrose.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Audrey Niffenegger, Time Traveler's Wife, Pink Hotel, Chris Hefner, Swimming Pool, Project Space, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 9, 2009
Chicago Best Sellers for the Week Ending September 6
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Media, Lit & Lectures, News, Books, Homer & Langley, E.L. Doctorow, The Help, Kathryn Stockett, A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore, South of Broad, Pat Conroy, The Women, T.C. Boyle, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Julia Child, Zeitoun, Dave Eggers, Grand Illusion, Theresa Amato, Born to Run, Christopher McDougall, Cahokia, Timothy R. Pauketat, Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson, Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger, Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows, Shack, William Paul Young, My Life in France, In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan, Devil in the White City, Erik Larson, Cults Conspiracies and Secret Socieities, Arthur Goldwag, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami

Blogs, Bleader Aug 26, 2009
Chicago Best Seller List for Week Ending August 23
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Books, The Help, Kathryn Stockett, That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo, Writers on the Record, South of Broad, Pat Conroy, Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson, White Queen, Phillippa Gregory, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Julia Child, Zeitoun, Dave Eggers, Outliers, Malcom Gladwell, Cahokia, Timothy Pauketat, I'm Down, Mishna Wolff, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger, Mercy, Toni Morrison, Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows, Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout, My Life in France, Julie & Julia, Julie Powell, Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, Jeff Sharlet, Julia's Kitchen Wisdom, Tunnel and the Light, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Blogs, Bleader Aug 21, 2009
Chicago Best Seller List for the week ending August 16
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Books, South of Broad, Pat Conroy, the Help, Kathryn Stockett, That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo, Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson, Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Julia Child, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell, Fergie, Ferguson Jenkins, Slippery Year, Melanie Gideon, Zeitoun, Dave Eggers, Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout, Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger, Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows, Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery, My Life in France, Julie and Julia, Julie Powell, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris, Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson, 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene

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The Time Traveler's Wife vs. Working: Greatest Chicago Book Tournament, round two

How to choose between two books? A judge seeks guidance from Virginia Woolf: "our taste, the nerve of sensation that sends shocks through us, is our chief illuminant."

So what is a great Chicago book anyway?

Some more thoughts about greatness and Chicago-ness at our tournament's halfway point.

It's time to vote in round two of the Greatest Chicago Book Tournament

Start voting for the next round in our book tournament!

Divergent vs. The Time Traveler's Wife: Greatest Chicago Book Tournament round one

Can a tale of true love and time travel beat out a tale of true love and dystopian alternative reality?

Chicago Best Sellers for Week Ending December 6

what's hot in local bookstores

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"Fragmentary Bits" of Chris Hefner's "The Pink Hotel"

Excerpts from Chris Hefner's in-progress experimental feature "The Pink Hotel" screen with his short films and video loops, Saturday 9/12, 9 PM to Midnight at Swimming Pool Project Space, 2858 W. Montrose.

Chicago Best Sellers for the Week Ending September 6

Chicago Best Seller List for Week Ending August 23

Chicago Best Seller List for the week ending August 16

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How to choose between two books? A judge seeks guidance from Virginia Woolf: "our taste, the nerve of sensation that sends shocks through us, is our chief illuminant."

Some more thoughts about greatness and Chicago-ness at our tournament's halfway point.

Start voting for the next round in our book tournament!

Can a tale of true love and time travel beat out a tale of true love and dystopian alternative reality?

what's hot in local bookstores

Excerpts from Chris Hefner's in-progress experimental feature "The Pink Hotel" screen with his short films and video loops, Saturday 9/12, 9 PM to Midnight at Swimming Pool Project Space, 2858 W. Montrose.

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