Book Review: A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
I am always a little skeptical of the self-help genre. I don’t say this from a place of smugness (trust me — I’m not above receiving help) but just from the sheer fact that it …
Books
Book Review: Eat, Pray, Love By Elizabeth Gilbert
What do you do when the life you had planned falls to pieces? What do you do when the life you had always wanted — a spouse, a child, a home, a successful career — …
The Brilliance of A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini’s debut novel, has generated a near frenzy of international acclaim. It spawned a critically acclaimed movie and continues to dominate best-seller lists, five years after its release. So initially, it …
Hanging with Junot Díaz in Key West
Four months ago, before he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz was hanging out in my hotel room in Key West. There were …
Poet Sonia Sanchez Speaks Tonight
The radical movements of 1968 eventually collapsed beneath the weight of two competing forces; the politically radical and the socially radical. Some tried LSD, some tried SDS. Some turned to Eastern spirituality as a form …
Performance Poet Patrick Rosal Visits C-U Today
Play every note loud — especially the wrong ones. – Dizzy Gillespie Poet Patrick Rosal visits Author’s Corner at the Illini Union Bookstore today as a guest artist in the University of Illinois’s Carr Reading …
SAFE House Creative Writing Event Tonight at Espresso Royale
The Canaan Baptist Church is a fixture in Urbana. Take a leisurely stroll down Main Street on your way to Strawberry Fields or the Farmer’s Market, and you’ll see it on your left: a pleasantly …
The Real Oronte Churm Stands Up
Back in July 2005, on an otherwise forgettable Thursday morning, a writer by the name of Oronte Churm sprung onto the national literary scene. That day, he turned up as a new columnist on McSweeney’s …
Will Leitch Interview; Book Signing Today
Will Leitch, editor of the sports website Deadspin and former sports editor of the Daily Illini, will be appearing at the Illini Union today, Tuesday Feb. 12 at 4 p.m., to speak and sign copies …
Book Review: God Save The Fan
Although he often self-deprecatingly describes his occupation as “typing about sports,” Will Leitch has a better sense of perspective than most of his colleagues in American sports journalism. In the introduction to his new book, …