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Plus: Book Christmas In July And The 10-Year-Old Novelist
1. Barbara Byrd-Bennett Caught Lying About Availability Of Certified Librarians.
2. “It was like Book Christmas in July.”
3. Barrington 10-Year-Old Working On His Second Novel.
Posted on July 16, 2014
Plus: The Dissent Of Kanye West & The Conformity Of Non-Conformity
1. Chicago Man Who Wrote Guide On How To Survive Running With Bulls Gored By Bulls.
“Bill Hillmann co-authored Fiesta: How to Survive the Bulls of Pamplona last month. On Wednesday, as he was running in the annual Spanish festival, a fighting bull stabbed the 32-year-old in the leg. He’s recovering, his friend said.”
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With a foreword from the mayor of Pamplona.
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“At Curbside Splendor, we like work that emphasizes voice – unconventional, urban, distinctive. Bill Hillmann, former street brawler, gang affiliate, drug dealer, convict, Chicago Golden Glove Champion, and bull runner, is one of those voices.”
Posted on July 9, 2014
And: Before Ball Four
“The Fourth of July will be marked tomorrow, as usual, with barbecues and fireworks and displays of patriotic fervor,” Levi Stahl writes at the University of Chicago Press blog.
“This year, it will also be marked by the publication of a book that honors patriotism – and counts its costs – in a more somber way: Ashley Gilbertson’s Bedrooms of the Fallen. The book presents photographs of the bedrooms of forty soldiers – the number in a platoon-who died while serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. The bedrooms, preserved by the families as memorials in honor of their lost loved ones, are a stark, heartbreaking reminder of the real pain and loss that war brings. As NPR’s The Two-Way put it, ‘Never have empty bedrooms looked so full.'”
Here’s Gilbertson narrating some of his photos.
Posted on July 3, 2014
