Speak Out! recent blogs
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Last Thoughts.... Why is Sundance So Important!?
By Ilene Marder 02/22/11
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By Ilene Marder 02/01/11
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By Ilene Marder 01/29/11
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THE BRONX IS OUT IN FORCE AT SUNDANCE!
By Ilene Marder 01/26/11
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By Ilene Marder 01/25/11
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By Ilene Marder 01/24/11
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The Most Important Film at Sundance?
By Ilene Marder 01/23/11
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Up too EARLY but gotta get tickets
By Ilene Marder 01/22/11
Books
Book Review: The Ticking Is The Bomb
Pauline Uchmanowicz reviews “The Ticking Is The Bomb” by Nick Flynn.
Book Review: Watching Gideon and The Lock Artist: A ThrillerAnne Pyburn reviews Stephen H. Foreman’s “Watching Gideon” and Steve Hamilton’s “The Lock Artist: A Thriller.” | 
Short Takes: February 2010Six outstanding local authors offer fresh takes on everything | 
Walking ManJoshua Ferris’s first novel, “Then We Came to the End” (Little, Brown, 2007), is a laugh-out-loud dissection of early 21st-century cubicle culture at a Chicago advertising agency where rounds of layoffs are wreaking havoc on the psyches of the staff. | 
In The FleshJulie Powell doesn’t mince words. Her second memoir Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession (Little Brown, 2009) is a startling follow-up to the bestselling Julie and Julia, which inspired one of the summer’s most effervescent films. |