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Gary Lawrence is a Rockford native who uses familiar sights and people in his fiction. In Baffled and Other Stories, Lawrence takes us to the "On the…
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Poet Susan Azar Porterfield remembers meeting a Syrian family in Beirut. She was visiting Lebanon during a period of peace, in 2003.The Syrians were brand…
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Rock 'n roll author Joe Bonomo has written books about AC/DC, Jerry Lee Lewis and The Fleshtones. His latest book, however, is a collection of essays…
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"If you're from a small town," Chris Fink says, "one of the things that's required of you is that you have an opinion about that town."Fink's debut novel,…
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Kyle L. White has lived in Sycamore, Ill., since 1991 but he grew up in Stevens Point, Wis. His humorous stories and illustrations, inspired by the Dairy…
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AC/DC was better with Bon Scott? For many AC/DC fans, those are fightin' words.After all, the band released the best-selling hard rock album of all time,…
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Amy Newman has published more than 200 poems. She is also a Presidential Research Professor at Northern Illinois University. Her alter ego, "Amy Newman,"…