Books: Migration and Russell Banks’ “Lost Memory of Skin”
A shared prize set novelist Jonathan Franzen (“Freedomâ€) and biographer Isabel Wilkerson (“The Warmth of Other Sunsâ€) on the same stage last Sunday. http://www.chicagohumanities.org/ through Nov. 13th. (Thanks for the treat, Deborah.) Migration figures in both works. In “Freedom,†Patty leaves the East Coast for a kinder, gentler life in the Midwest. In “Warmth…†six million
(...)Books and Life: Reading Chicago and its Lake
In the months after summer’s heat, Chicago’s crisp sunny days pull me, and my dog, to the beach. There’s no one there! My North Avenue beach is banked by man-made dunes. Get yourself beyond those and the beach offers a wide swath of sand pebbled with crushed shells. Also washed-up wood slabs from wave-smashed piers,
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