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Stephan Benzkofer

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Stephan Benzkofer is the owner of Benzkofer Communications, helping organizations big and small tell their stories. Benzkofer left the Chicago Tribune in 2015 after nearly 20 years writing and editing. He wrote the "10 things" series with colleague Mark Jacob and also edited Chicago Flashback, a history feature that connected current events with historic headlines. ...more

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The Human Division by John Scalzi
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I'm enjoying how the author shakes things up with each installment in this series, for example, changing point of view, main characters, story structure, and tone. In the fifth installment, we get closely linked short stories that read like episodes ...more
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I'm enjoying how the author shakes things up with each installment in this series, for example, changing point of view, main characters, story structure, and tone. In the fifth installment, we get closely linked short stories that read like episodes ...more
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The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
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The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
"This is a book where ambiguity and a lack of grounding in logic makes it ripe for discussion, if not for unqualified praise. Is it an allegory about fascism or authoritarianism? Is it about the creative process or destruction the artists undergoes. W" Read more of this review »
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Stoner by John  Williams
"One of the most unassuming classics I've read. A great book that doesn't lend itself to a summary in any way that captures it's heft. It's a novel tracing the life of an unremarkable (?) English professor from his first literary epiphany to his death" Read more of this review »
Mary Gresley and an Editor's Tales by Anthony Trollope
"I've only read a dozen or so of Trollope's short stories, but I think I prefer his writing on a larger canvas. The stories are sometimes schlocky and sometimes grim, and grim is overrepresented in this collection. One of these stories (The Spotted Do" Read more of this review »
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Angel Down by Daniel Kraus
Angel Down
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Angel Down is a fever dream of a novel with a brilliant premise: an angel gets shot down in No Man's Land between the German and American trenches in WWI France. U.S. Private Cyril Bagger is ordered to go over the top with four other misfits and clea ...more
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace is a brilliant, infuriating novel. At its best, it is the classic that you should read next year*; at its most confounding, it remains one of the finest books ever written. Leo Tolstoy the Author tosses around insights into the human co ...more
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