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Printers Row Lit Fest headliners announced

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'A Man Called Ove' author Fredrik Backman, novelist Joyce Carol Oates to headline Printers Row Lit Fest

Thursday, May 3

Printers Row Lit Fest will bring authors, cultural icons and chefs to Chicago in June, including "Sopranos" star/novelist Michael Imperioli, Chance the Rapper collaborator Jamila Woods, and James Beard Award-winning chef Paul Kahan.

Golden State Killer case was cold for years. Oak Park native Michelle McNamara kept the story alive.

Family and friends remember Oak Park native and true crime author Michelle McNamara after news that a suspect in the Golden State Killer case has been arrested.

Chicagoan's book celebrating black girls' hair is a hit — 20 years after it was first published

Chicagoan Natasha Tarpley's children's book "I Love My Hair," about a black girl's many hairstyles, was a modest success in 1998. Twenty years later, it's an Amazon category best-seller.

How baseball will survive in the age of distraction

Jacoby fell in love with the game in her grandfather's bar in a blue-collar community just south of Chicago.

'Caddyshack': A comic masterpiece with 18 plot holes

"Golf loves a foursome," writes Chris Nashawaty in this gritty chronicle of the making of "Caddyshack." 

Elizabeth Patridge's compelling Vietnam history leads this week's roundup of young-adult lit

"We Are All That's Left" by Carrie Arcos and "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely are also featured in this week's young-adult literature roundup.

Zora Neale Hurston: 87 years after writing of 'The Last Black Cargo,' the book is being published

On May 8, HarperCollins will publish "Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo.'"

As a novelist, David Duchovny is no Sean Penn

His latest, "Miss Subways," is an old-fashioned romantic comedy that takes its title from the posters that featured attractive working women on New York subway cars for several decades starting in 1941.

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