Patrick T. Reardon

The process of writing is like hacking through a dense jungle with a machete, getting lost and having to double back. Twigs catch in your hair and scratch your face....

There are traitors in our midst, guys. Closer than our best friends, closer than our children, closer than our spouses--as close as close can be. The betrayers are our bodies....

Robert Remini, The House in Conflict. (402), 10-11 a.m. Nov. 4, The Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St. The retired history professor from the University of Illinois at Chicago brings...

On Tuesday, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the giant Chicago philanthropy, is to announce this year's batch of "exceptionally creative" people who will receive $500,000 over five...

This week, Daniel Socolow made The Calls out of the Blue. As is his custom, he first suggested the person on the other end sit down or pull off the...

Joseph Alexander, a 65-year-old architect, agrees with Tempo that the Roberto's building at 214 S. State St. is one of the ugliest in the Loop. But he has a soft...

MORNING Father's Day, and, for this fantasy, let's say the world-traveling, nearly 21-year-old son has found a way back for the weekend from Australia. Dad makes pancakes, bacon and cut-up...

In the season finale of "Lost," the character Desmond says he carries around Charles Dickens' "Our Mutual Friend" because he wants that to be the last book he reads before...

Judging from the throngs who turned out on two picture-perfect days over the weekend for the 2006 baiduhai Printers Row Book Fair, Chicago must be the undisputed books capital...

Friday is the first of the Sox-Cubs games this season, symbolizing the greater North Side vs. South Side rivalry. But lost in the hype devoted to that divide are other...