Julia Sweeney has appeared on vaunted stages in California and New York, including Saturday Night Live. But her next gig is in Evanston at the cozy SPACE stage, starting October 15 at 4 p.m. This television and movie actress is working on material for a new book currently titled “If It’s Not One Thing, It’s […]
Is your book club putting together its reading list for the next few months? Here are 5 new releases that are guaranteed to keep you talking, well after the wine is gone. “The Leftovers” by Tom Perrotta What if The Rapture goes wrong? After all, you’re a pretty decent person, right? What if, one day, […]
Highland Park native David Friend always wanted to write a book about the role of photography in a given week, but he never anticipated an event as horrific as 9/11. It was the most widely viewed breaking-news event in human history, experienced on TV alone by an estimated 2 billion people—a third of the human […]
Highland Park native Joanne Gordon is easy to find—just head to your local Starbucks, where you’ll see her picture inside the book jacket of the best-seller “Onward.”
Enjoy this excerpt from the new novel by Evanston mom, Tracy Egan, based on her one-woman play, “Who’s Driving the Bus?” This scene is called, “Meet the Teacher.” “Who’s Driving the Bus? My Year as a Kindergarten Mom” is available at most local bookstores. MEETING THE TEACHER “Mrs. Slaughter, So nice to meet you I’m […]
In a celeb-crazed society, it’s easy to lose sight of our priorities. California lawyer Lisa Bloom, CBS News legal consultant and former host of her own TruTV show, recently authored “Think,” pushing women to take time out of their busy lives to put things in perspective. “I noticed as a TV legal analyst, I’m increasingly called […]
It’s the book lover’s siren call—gentle waves lapping at the beach’s edge.
Ann Patchett’s newest book is “State of Wonder,” about a pharmaceutical researcher, Marina Singh, who must travel to the Amazon jungle after a colleague’s mysterious death. When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I knew when I was 5 years old. It’s the one true thing about me that I’ve always known […]
Local mom and writer, Trish Cook, will be at The Book Stall on Thursday, June 16 at 7 p.m. for a reading and signing of her book, “Notes from the Blender.”
Diane Falanga, author of “P.S. I Hate It Here!: Kids’ Letters From Camp,” is busy at work collecting camp letters for her second book: “P.S. I STILL Hate It Here.”
