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Sandburg rented the second floor apartment at 4646 North Hermitage from 1911 through 1914. Now the Carl Sandburg Home is an official Chicago Landmark.

At a recent reading in Chicago, Shalom Auslander confided in his audience that he had asked his publisher if he could skip the normal book tour Q & A, and just interview himself.The questions he gets are “often repetitive,” he lamented.

Twitter may seem like an annoying, hyperactive, self-important and cursory way to communicate, but you have to admit, it's addictive. And lately, it has become far more than a way to share your favorite VMA performance with 500 people at once (for the record: Beyonce baby bump!).

Printers Row Lit Fest is over and done but, please, think of it as just the tip of Chicago’s literary iceberg.