Newcity Chicago Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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National Cinema Day, plus: "The Creepshow: A Stephen King Film Festival"; ten remarkable films in "The Story of Film: A New Generation—A Film Series"; @thefilmsociety presents "Foolish Wives"; and a five-picture run for Pasolini begins with "Mamma Roma." https://t.co/ZVgGHK7Dbl

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In the tradition of Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio,”  these are linked tales of loving, dying and growing up. #NewcityLit @OvunqueSiamo https://t.co/lLIIl148yx

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In Chicago, "Lost Highway," at the @musicboxtheatre; Rob Christopher's glimpse of the life of Lynch's collaborator, "Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago"; and Eric Rohmer's "Le rayon vert" (The Green Ray) via @thefilmsociety. #NewcityFilm https://t.co/dBkMMBthuB

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"The Poet’s House" is a story immersed in the world of poetry and academia, a coming-of-age story shrouded in a mysterious, J.D. Salinger-like missing manuscript. It gets down to serious issues of self-discovery and legacy. #NewcityLit @AlgonquinBooks https://t.co/Ez8pSHzOs6

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In the tradition of Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio,”  these are linked tales of loving, dying and growing up. #NewcityLit @OvunqueSiamo https://t.co/lLIIl148yx

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The grand corpus left by filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder at the age of thirty-seven—over forty films and television projects, in a decade-and-a-half of cold fury—is the subject of Ian Penman’s short, sharp shock of "Fassbinder: Thousands Of Mirrors." https://t.co/OA2Il1eCk5

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Journalist Alden Wicker examines sustainability and fashion, raising awareness on issues related to the environment and the human cost of fast fashion. https://t.co/ZWA5vgv3ma

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An incisive, suitably atonal but pitch-perfect Chicago premiere of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning play that leads, relentlessly, to unexpected heights of humor and drama and to the depths of America’s race divides. https://t.co/X9xsQ9WAam

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When he was seventy-four years old, Capricorn author Norman Maclean published his first novel, "A River Runs Through It." It became a best-seller. https://t.co/dhW4Z2gVuh

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Lynn Nottage sets "Clyde’s," her ninety-minute, laugh-out-loud funny, poignant play, in a grimy truck stop diner somewhere near Reading, Pennsylvania. On stage at @GoodmanTheatre through October 9. #NewcityStage https://t.co/XSKixRWfY7