chris borrelli

Chicago Tribune features writer. Militant Rhode Islander. Northwestern/Harvard/Syracuse. Nieman fellow. DM for tips here. email: [email protected]

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The author, who lives in Wheaton, has a new challenge now that “Remarkably Bright Creatures” is a Netflix movie starring Sally Field: Escaping its popularity long enough to write a second novel. https://t.co/CLTACDry3n

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Shelby Van Pelt wrote the octopus book ‘Bright Creatures,’ and it keeps pulling her back https://t.co/1XEV1mHQw7

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Shelby Van Pelt wrote the octopus book ‘Bright Creatures,’ and it keeps pulling her back https://t.co/rN5J1rwUmR

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My piece on Zayd Ayers Dohrn and the moral blind spots of his parents (leaders of the Weather Underground) https://t.co/8LIDDJRme0

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“Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young” is Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s remarkable memoir confronting his parents, Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground. https://t.co/bkv01tIzBQ

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My piece on Zayd Ayers Dohrn and the moral blind spots of his parents (leaders of the Weather Underground) https://t.co/8LIDDJRme0

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Whatever happened to the revolution? Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s new memoir confronts his notorious Chicago parents. https://t.co/CrjIyEgH4t

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If you’re like me, you’re K-pop curious. You know what K-pop is and you’ve heard some K-pop but you’re still uncertain if you like K-pop because you’re old and haven’t cared about the Top 40 since that time you taped Men at Work… https://t.co/XRno7AoVZ2

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Review: There is an undeniable winding down to Bob Dylan’s performances these days, not genuine decline — he’s made some of his most interesting music in the past 30 years — but more like an ongoing reckoning with legacy and age. https://t.co/fIKrd6XQ5i

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The artists of TWICE are unpretentious, pleasant, harmless and are prone to unexpected bursts of infectious energy. https://t.co/E6OXCy2TVB

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Do you speak geek? Translating the many languages of C2E2. https://t.co/ASioJvEhY6

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Bob Dylan turns 85 this spring, just before Memorial Day. I went to see him Monday night in Waukegan, at the Genesee Theatre, itself approaching 100 years next winter. Nobody’s getting younger. Everyone’s retracing their steps. Dylan, being… https://t.co/dYJhyKAFTO

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Review: Bob Dylan was at the Genesee Theatre, singing songs with ghosts https://t.co/Mc3shO86k2

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It’s difficult to say what’s more surprising:

That one of the leading surgeons in Chicago from 1900-1940s was named Victor Frankenstein, or that after Victor Frankenstein was born in Chicago in 1869, his parents still named him Victor Frankenstein.

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I wrote about the Stationery Underground, the growing army of fans of all things paper, pen and journal - who gathered recently at the Chicago Stationery Festival

https://t.co/n3F2j4nF1O

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I wrote about the Stationery Underground, the growing army of fans of all things paper, pen and journal - who gathered recently at the Chicago Stationery Festival

https://t.co/n3F2j4nF1O

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I didn't know, until reading this fun piece by @borrelli, that there was such a thing as a Chicago Stationery Festival. "This is like a Comic-Con, for people who like to write letters and have strong opinions on pens.” These sound like my people! https://t.co/CtcoYDahXK

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When Frankenstein was a Chicagoan, or why Mary Shelley’s creation will never die

https://t.co/YlOrg4FeCH