Alum puts new spin on “biker bar”

by Madelyn Freed

John Greenfield (A.B. '93) takes local beer background on the road

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Camille van Horne

NSIT employee hatches Fish fantasy

by Yasmeen Hussain

James Kennedy’s debut novel The Order of Odd-Fish came out in December. The Maroon had the opportunity to talk to him about his life and the inspiration for some of his characters.

UofC CLEANS UP in Critics Circle Nominations

by Hayley Lamberson

Three authors associated with the university are nominated for the prestigious literary award.

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Dombrowski discovers wisdom in the Reg: not in the books, but on the walls

by Keegan Hankes

Quinn Dombrowski discusses her documentation of Reg graffiti.

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U of C students kick Spark Notes to the curb with Twitterature

by Ben Sigrist

The Maroon sat down with authors Emmett Rensin and Alexander Aciman to discuss how, exactly, the book came about.

Too Much Happiness has all the beauty without the brains

by Dani Brecher

By the end of the collection, the reader is left to wonder what Munro might accomplish if she were to try her hand at writing stories about women who suffer less.

U of C alum aims for National Book Award

by Yasmeen Hussain

Bonnie Jo Campbell (B.A. '84) is nominated for her novel American Salvage.

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Lindsay Prevette

Victors write history: Plouffe records Obama campaign strategy

by Ruben Montiel

David Plouffe talks about what it takes to win a presidential election.

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Tom Tian

Yours, Hypothetically—10/27/2009

by Rory Squire

To The Girl in the Reg Whom I Spied Hiding Her Danielle Steel Behind Proust

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Freak's fact-checking fails on climate change

by Kyle Gracey

Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's new book Superfreakonomics gets it wrong when it comes to global warming, but fulfills its purpose in other chapters.

Noah's Ark Goes Green in Atwood's Feminist Flood

by Dani Brecher

This year’s looming flu season brings along with it Margaret Atwood’s new novel The Year of the Flood to help feed our microbe-induced hysteria.

Top 5 Summer Books

by Jingru Yang

Hemmingway gets revived, highly evolved bugs rule a sci-fi thriller, and American cuisine gets investigated.

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David Kamm

MacArthur Genius Dybek dishes out South Side stories

by Chase Weldon

With works such as The Coast of Chicago, Dybek is known for his ability to capture the essence of the city he was born and raised in. This Tuesday, he will read some of his most famous short stories at Swift Hall.

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Palahniuk's social satire sears, but characters leave us cold

by Ruben Montiel

Chuck Palahniuk's latest book, Pygmy, follows the well-tread path of biting social satire common to his novels, as it attacks the terrorism-fueled xenophobia peculiar to America.

Chick lit tropes crash The Divorce Party

by Dani Brecher

In her new novel The Divorce Party, Laura Dave works with good material and ideas but falls back on standard chick lit plotting in the end.

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Mark Levine

Wilson’s poetry speaks nature’s enigmatic language

by Ilana Kowarski

Voices had the opportunity to interview Emily Wilson, an up-and-coming poet, and get her perspective on her own poetry and poetry in general before she read from her most recent anthology, Micrographia, this Thursday at Rosenwald Hall.

Bizarre thriller relates Dickens' last decade through eyes of rival novelist Collins

by Dani Brecher

Drood, a fictionalized account of the last years of Dickens’s life, is an enjoyable, if overly long, thriller, complete with cameos from famous literary figures, practitioners of Egyptian occultism, and denizens of an underground city in the sewers of London.

University librarian finds stories in the stacks

by Jessen O'Brien

University of Chicago librarian Frances McNamara published Death at the Fair, a murder mystery set during the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. The Maroon sat down with McNamara to discuss her work and plans for the future.

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Boyle builds juicy melodrama on Wright’s fickle foundations

by Dani Brecher

T.C. Boyle creates a beautifully written potboiler full of of sex, revenge, and beautiful language.

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Chicago librarian conjures classic fairy tales with a twist in Serendipity Market

by MaryBeth Gronek

Penny Blubaugh's debut novel may be about fairy tales and magic, but it comes from a very real concern for the indifference of modern people to the importance of storytelling.

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Phillips hopes to connect students with their muses

by Nora Sorena Casey

Before arriving on campus, Sherry Poet-in-Residence Carl Phillips spoke in a phone interview about how he teaches poetry and where classic and contemporary life intersect.

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Chris Salata

Uncover Hyde Park’s hidden comic-book lair

by Michael Lipkin

Voices talks to the man behind First Aid Comics about how to get your funnybook fix in Hyde Park.

V.S. Naipaul's Mistress v. Patrick French: The Ultimate Showdown

by Ben Rossi

The increasingly acrimonious exchanges between Margaret Murray and Patrick French in the New York Review of Books are simmering out of control.

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Barnes, Saramago weigh the pros and cons of the beyond

by Kira Bennett

Two novels come to the conclusion that when it comes to death, you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.

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Kleinzahler concludes Poem Present series in Rapid City

by Rob Underwood

As the final poet in the University’s Poem Present series, August Kleinzahler will read from his new book of grizzled, chiseled poetry in Rosenwald Hall Thursday afternoon.

Shea pens poetry from Chicago to Japan

by Ben Sigrist

In an e-mail interview, Chicago poet James Shea discussed everything that is important to poets: cookies, pizza stones, and poetry too.

Princeton's on probation, but U of C gets high marks from Kirn

by Jingru Yang

VOICES sat down with Kirn to talk about Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever, before his reading from the book on the afternoon of Tuesday, October 28.

Hyde Park is world-renowned for its bevy of booksellers

by Ethan Stanislawski

Those of you who relish in that je ne sais quoi of hanging out in bookstores fear not: Hyde Park has an eclectic selection.

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Trivia snuffs out character development

by Supriya Sinhababu

To date, Chuck Palahniuk has made 73 people faint just by reading them his short story "Guts," a tale of worst-case masturbation scenarios. On the book tour for his new novel Snuff, the Fight Club ...

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Forest majors in self-discovery, Hyde Park angst

by Lisbeth Redfield

Sachiko Hamada’s debut novel, Forest in F Minor, is at once distant and too close. Set in the late ’70s, it describes an aggressive, educated Japanese woman redefining herself in the familiar envir...

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