Sara Paretsky on ‘Brush Back’
Since her debut in 1982's "Indemnity Only," the sharp-tongued sleuth V.I. Warshawski has been serving notice to Chicago's bad guys that they aren't going to get away with it. In...
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A visit to Harper Lee’s hometown of Monroeville, Ala.
Some 200 miles to the west, signs around Jackson, Miss., proudly direct tourists to the home of Eudora Welty. The house, now a museum, is a national historic landmark, a...
Rebecca Makkai on ‘Music for Wartime’
In an interview some years ago with Shenandoah magazine, the Chicago-area writer Rebecca Makkai was having trouble getting her mind around how a selection of her short stories — which...
Brian Grazer on ‘A Curious Mind’
Hollywood producer Brian Grazer is one curious guy. For more than 35 years, Grazer —whose credits include the films "Splash," "Apollo 13," "8 Mile," "American Gangster" and "A Beautiful Mind"...
Sally Mann on photography, ‘Hold Still’
With the publication of her third book of pictures, "Immediate Family" (Aperture, 1992), Sally Mann leapt from relative obscurity to a level of national celebrity that only a handful of...
Edward P. Jones on receiving the Harold Washington Literary Award
Although Edward P. Jones has produced only three books of fiction in his long career — the short story collections "Lost in the City" (1992) and "All Aunt Hagar's Children"...
Bob Saget on ‘Dirty Daddy’
Because of his role as a single dad on the long-running ABC sitcom "Full House" and his concurrent hosting of "America's Funniest Home Videos," Bob Saget seemed squeaky clean to...
Scott McEwen on ‘The Sniper and the Wolf’
In real life and in pop culture, the sniper is a figure of fascination and fear. Now, thanks to "American Sniper" — the wildly popular Clint Eastwood film that starred...
David McCullough on ‘The Wright Brothers’
Few days in history can rival Dec. 17, 1903, in terms of its profound effect on what came afterward. It was that day, at Kitty Hawk, N.C., that Wilbur and...
Scott Simon on ‘Unforgettable’
National Public Radio host Scott Simon turns a corner at the Art Institute of Chicago and there it is: "Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper, four lonely figures whiling away the wee...