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Chicago Writer Barry Pearce Shares the 5 Books That Changed His Life

The lifelong Chicagoan was just named the Nelson Algren Award winner for 2019

Lou Reed Lyric Book To Feature Intros By Martin Scorsese, Laurie Anderson

The book will also be updated to include lyrics from "Lulu"

The 8 New Books You Should Be Reading This September

It's basically Christmas season for book lovers, with new titles from Malcolm Gladwell, Josh Gondelman and Patti Smith

The Best Movies, TV, Books and Music for September

Including the best movie prop auction ever, a new book by Malcolm Gladwell and the first slate of Oscar contenders

The Rise of the High-End Western

“Yellowstone” leads a group of works revitalizing the genre

Excerpt: The Story Behind Graham Greene's WWII "Spy Brothel"

A new book explores the real-life tales of famous writers who doubled as wartime operatives

The Foul-Mouthed Milwaukee Bartender That Connected Al Capone and Joseph McCarthy

Her newly-reissued memoir abounds with gangsters, whiskey and an unquenchable spirit

Inside the Crisis Facing College Newspapers

College newspapers wrestle with industry- and campus-specific issues

Two Tony Award Winners Hope to Bring “The Shining” to Broadway

A new stage adaptation of Stephen King’s celebrated novel is in the works

Amazon Is Selling Altered Versions of Orwell's '1984'

From bizarre yet harmless typos to unauthorized edits, Amazon's fake books are rewriting literary history

On the Growing Influence of Barack Obama, Literary Tastemaker

Readers everywhere rejoiced when the former president dropped his summer reading list last week

Where Great Surfing Meets Robinson Crusoe

Alejandro Selkirk Island, where epic waves and literary history meet

Digital Editions of J. D. Salinger’s Books Due Out This Week

The literary icon’s work had previously been unavailable as e-books

Inside the Weird World of Shakespeare Conspiracy Theories

Charlie Chaplin, Helen Keller and Supreme Court justices are all counted among those that don't believe the hype