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Chicago Faces An Affordable Housing Crisis. Has Brandon Johnson Delivered On Development Promises?
14 May 2024 12:52 GMT
CHICAGO — From the campaign trail to City Hall, Brandon Johnson championed Bring Chicago Home, a proposed tax hike on high-end property sales to fund homelessness initiatives, as the plan Chicago needed.
The defeat of the referendum in March’s election was …
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Add these books with gripping tales to your reading list"
25 Apr 2024 10:33 GMT
… morbid curiosity.
The following books are gripping tales that offer … is a gripping Swedish novel where journalist Mikael Blomkvist … Fun & Profit by Lawrence Block isn't your typical … career as an acclaimed mystery author.
Aspiring writers interested in …
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Don Winslow Explains Why He's Trading Crime Novels for Never-Trump Activism
11 Apr 2024 19:20 GMT
… increasingly legendary crime fiction author Don Winslow announced the … 39;ve sold 300 million books.”
Despite this career pivot … fiction greats: Raymond Chandler, Lawrence Block, the god Elmore Leonard. … novel, A Cool Breeze on the Underground, was published …
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The long good-bye: 10 questions for Don Winslow on his final novel, 'City in Ruins'
08 Apr 2024 17:45 GMT
… nature — something you, as an author, wishes was?
Interesting question. I … is Lawrence Block. He’s in his mid-80s and still writing novels … . Not too long ago he published a book that millions …
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Reading, Reading, Reading
11 May 2024 20:05 GMT
… Black people. His first novel, Planes, was published in 2022. I e … context or perspective about a book that they might not already … trick. I recently got into Lawrence Block. His main character, the private …
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Year in review: Favorite author interviews of 2023
31 Dec 2023 18:40 GMT
… talent to children’s booksChris Woodyard
Another person I … her again for her latest novel “The Raging Storm.” … Something in that novel reminded me of a favorite … Lawrence Block
During 2023 I went on a tremendous Lawrence Block reading binge. The book …
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Favorite crime novels from 2023
24 Dec 2023 20:41 GMT
… Laura Lippman writes fiendishly clever books and this one is sure … as ‘The Troubles,” these novels are superb. McKinty stopped writing … is a bookend in a way to a novel he wrote … of Matthew Scudder” by Lawrence Block
Lawrence Block is now 85 years old …
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Book Nook: 'The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder' by Lawrence Block
08 Jul 2023 15:31 GMT
… . Being out on author tours for new books can be an exhausting … I spoke to my first author back in 1994.
I have … a half dozen interviews with Lawrence Block and he has become one … sheer pleasure of it.
The Book Nook on WYSO is presented …
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Lawrence Block is an exquisite craftsman
27 Nov 2022 23:46 GMT
Posted:
November 27, 2022
Book Review
By Derryll White
Block … – what would I do?
Lawrence Block is an exquisite craftsman with … a try.
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Excerpts from the novel:
TRAFFICKING – “Either case, the … .
– Derryll White once wrote books but now chooses to read …
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Book Nook: 'The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown' by Lawrence Block
27 Nov 2022 15:10 GMT
… probably published his last novel. Thankfully, he keeps changing his mind.
Lawrence Block has published … over 200 books …