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    Mar 16, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. Corporate book club welcomes authors

    <b>Our story</b>
    Our story We are all employees of Nicor Gas, based in Naperville. Our book club began in 1992 when a handful of employees decided to gather informally during lunch to discuss books. Our club has since expanded to 38 employees, including four retirees. We...

    Tags: Clubs and Associations, Thomas Edison, Nicor Incorporated, Employees, Economy, Business and Finance

    2. Apr 8, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Book review: 'The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens'

    The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens
    The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens Edited by Jenny Hartley Oxford University Press: 458 pp., $34.95 This is the bicentennial year of Charles Dickens' birth. We need no reminder of his eminence as novelist, but there are celebrations of his other...

    Tags: Hans Christian Andersen, John Forster, Charles Dickens, Genres, Authors

    3. Mar 20, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. Lifeline announces 2012-13 season, including 'The Woman in White'

    Lifeline Theatre will stage a new adaptation of "The Woman in White," the 1899 English ghost story by Wilkie Collins that previously became the main source of an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, as the opening production of its fall season. Robert Kauzlaric's...

    Tags: China, Arts and Culture, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Theater, Fiction

    4. Feb 10, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  4. Charles Dickens' 200th birthday: Ralph Fiennes helps set the stage

    Culture Monster
    Charles Dickens: Tuesday marks the bicentennial of Charles Dickens' birth. Britain's National Film Theatre is holding a retrospective, and a ceremony will be held at London's Westminster Abbey starring actor-director Ralph Fiennes, who, along with...
    5. Apr 9, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  5. A chat with Robin Ellis, the man who was Poldark

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    A few weeks back I wrote about "Poldark," a BBC series from the mid-1970s that had recently been released in a complete-set package on DVD (by Acorn Media), as a cure for "Downton Abbey" withdrawal. A tale of romance and class war, of tradition and...
    6. Feb 1, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  6. Recalling a Friend and a Great Librarian

    The Daily Mirror
    his is Elizabeth C. Franklin or Miss Franklin to those of us who worked for her. It wasn't until she loaned me her precious Film Index of 1941 with her name written inside that I learned she had once been......
    7. Dec 25, 2010 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  7. Chicagoland book club

    <b>Things to know about our club:</b> Women Who Read has been in existence for 14 years, beginning as a small group of co-workers who then brought along friends and neighbors. We're a diverse group, with careers ranging from artist to scientist, but our love of reading joins us. As far as our book choices, we try to include at least one classic and one nonfiction book each year. The rest are selected by consensus. Our monthly meeting location rotates between our homes, but we have two special meetings. One is during the summer, when we combine our discussion with a garden tour in one member's lovely yard. The other is in December, when we are treated to a special Christmas wonderland in a fabulously decorated home. The highlight is a wrapped book exchange, where we draw names and give books we wish someone would give us &#8212; or ones we've read and loved. Recently, Justine Vaughn, a key member and the hostess of our annual Christmas celebration, passed away after a battle with cancer.
    Things to know about our club: Women Who Read has been in existence for 14 years, beginning as a small group of co-workers who then brought along friends and neighbors. We're a diverse group, with careers ranging from artist to scientist, but our love...

    Tags: Amy Tan, Bars and Clubs, Anne Tyler, Clubs and Associations, Arts and Culture

    8. May 14, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  8. From the Vaults: 'Crimes at the Dark House' (1940)

    The Daily Mirror
    We have commenter Fibber McGee to thank for this week's movie. Also, I have a new boyfriend, and his name is Tod Slaughter! (Both of those are real names! Oh, OK... Tod's real first name was Norman...) I read Wilkie Collins' "The Woman in White" many...
    9. Jun 1, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. A riddle in three dimensions

    <b>Semi-spoiler alert: </b>Some of Kate Summerscale's conclusions in "The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher" are presented but not all.
    Semi-spoiler alert: Some of Kate Summerscale's conclusions in "The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher" are presented but not all. Modern detectives trace their lineage in world literature to Oedipus, whose search for his true identity has made him, to some...

    Tags: Murder, Crimes, Charles Dickens, Folklore and Mythology, Opera (genre)

    10. Dec 7, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. The Siren's Call: New narratives, old myths

    Myth is an extremely rich vein that writers have always mined. This year was no exception, as demonstrated by <b>Kate Summerscale's </b>splendid nonfiction study of a 19th century murder, <b>"The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher" </b>(Walker: 380 pp., $24.95).
    Myth is an extremely rich vein that writers have always mined. This year was no exception, as demonstrated by Kate Summerscale's splendid nonfiction study of a 19th century murder, "The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher" (Walker: 380 pp., $24.95). In 1860, the...

    Tags: Murder, Los Angeles, Crimes, Death, Folklore and Mythology

    11. Mar 1, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. 'Drood' by Dan Simmons and 'The Last Dickens' by Matthew Pearl

    So, Charles Dickens' great fragment, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," has been finished by a contemporary writer?
    So, Charles Dickens' great fragment, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," has been finished by a contemporary writer? That's what I thought, eyeing the titles of Dan Simmons' and Matthew Pearl's new novels. At last. The story of Dickens' final book is...

    Tags: Social Issues, Murder, Drug Trafficking, Charles Dickens, Crimes

    12. Oct 26, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Rediscovering early fictional America detective James Brampton

    It is a truth universally acknowledged that after Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious death in 1849, detective fiction did not make another splash on these shores until a pipe-smoking Englishman with remarkable powers of deduction became a transatlantic sensation. Certainly Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson inspired stateside copycats around the turn of the 20th century, such as Arthur B. Reeve's scientifically-minded sleuth Craig Kennedy, but mystery readers looking for immediate literary successors to Poe's dark tales of detection would have to resign themselves to a vacuum of time until Arthur Conan Doyle and Wilkie Collins' gothic-tinged detective novels showed up on the scene.
    It is a truth universally acknowledged that after Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious death in 1849, detective fiction did not make another splash on these shores until a pipe-smoking Englishman with remarkable powers of deduction became a transatlantic...

    Tags: Murder, Crimes, Death, Edgar Allan Poe, Assault

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