Windy (bookish) city
Back from the book festival in Chicago, where Dave and I got to talk books, meet great writers and stay in a lovely old historic hotel. (I also got barred from a party because I was wearing jeans, but I'll write that up for Native Intelligence later this week.)
Since this was my first-ever Chicago visit, I shot some tourist pix:
Book festival sets up:
The beautiful public library:
Fountain near Millenium Park:
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| WSJ reports that Citigroup executive are looking into the possibility of selling the financial giant or auctioning off pieces.
| The NYU professor has predicted with confounding accuracy that the markets will keep going down.
| Without referencing its recent layoff, the Ventura County Star's editor says the suburban LA paper is now "more streamlined and, in many ways, much more efficient."
| We stripped the Indians of their ponies, and now we're doing it to ourselves.
| When the sun looks like that, there's a big fire somewhere regardless of whether we see or smell smoke.
Lee Abrams, Tribune Company's chief innovation officer, doesn’t seem too impressed with the Los Angeles Times. That’s the feeling I got when he appeared at the Los Angeles Press Club.
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