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.
4. Former Chicago Musician And Playboy Comic Illustrator Now Writing Children’s Books In Maine.
5. “Three years after the enthusiastic reception of her debut novel, The Borrower, Rebecca Makkai returns with The Hundred-Year House, an entertaining, ambitious saga of secrets, ghosts, and an old mansion,” S. Kirk Walsh writes for the Boston Globe.
“Setting her story on the sprawling estate of Laurelfield on Chicago’s North Shore, the author skillfully unfurls an intricate narrative – with an expansive cast of characters – which begins in 1990 and retraces to 1900.”
6. “The plot involves a select group of African Americans on the Southeast Side of Chicago who initiate the founding of Elysium.”
In Hegewisch?
7. Chicago Jazz Guru Joe Segal Writing A Memoir.
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Posted on July 16, 2014