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...printing process is speedy and impressive. The copier rapidly spits out a thick stack of pages, which the machine then clamps, rotates, and binds with hot glue into a card-stock jacket. Two blades, regrettably obscured from view, thresh off the book’s edges until it is cut to size. Finally, the finished product is deposited, like a bottle of soda from a vending machine, into a compartment near the bottom. Apart from their unadorned covers, the books look and feel indistinguishable from those on the shelves...

Author: By Charlie E. Riggs | Title: Dream of a Universal Bookstore | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...surprise, only a bare few onlookers actually seemed interested in buying something made by the machine. The male graduate student ordered a Spanish-language book on aesthetic theory; I bought a Victorian novel. It felt warm in my hands—literally hot off the press. Most people, however, were content to “ooh” and “aah” and feel as if they had witnessed a bit of print history...

Author: By Charlie E. Riggs | Title: Dream of a Universal Bookstore | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...that we saw a few years ago. The other trend is, if you follow unemployment patterns, you're seeing pretty significant increases in foreclosure in places that have been hit hard by unemployment. So Fayetteville, Ark., and Boise, Idaho, and Portland, Ore. - places that have not traditionally been foreclosure hot spots have all seen foreclosure activity go up pretty significantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: The Outlook for Home Foreclosures | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...author of about 50 plays, many of them produced at respected Second City theaters like Steppenwolf and Chicago Dramatists, he still needed a day job--editing for a medical website--to help support himself, his wife and their 8-year-old daughter. Yet now he's a Broadway hot ticket. True, he has a couple of big movie stars to thank--Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman, who were somehow persuaded to star in his play A Steady Rain. But they're only helping affirm a hard truth for New York City's sometimes insular theater community: the Chicagoans are taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago Takes Center Stage in New York | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...years ago and is now on a national tour. Chicago theater's most celebrated export, David Mamet, will be represented on Broadway with two works this fall: a revival of his 1992 drama Oleanna and a new play, about black-white tensions at a law firm, titled Race. Meanwhile, hot Chicago director David Cromer--whose moving, teacup-size revival of Our Town is a megahit downtown--will tackle the work of that quintessential New York wiseacre, Neil Simon, directing revivals of his autobiographical plays Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago Takes Center Stage in New York | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

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