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Rick Kogan: “Puddin’ is as beautiful, moving and stunning a book as I can remember reading, and it’s unique.”

During his weekly radio show on WGN on Sunday, January 22, Chicago journalism legend Rick Kogan had high praise for Patrick T. Reardon’s Puddin’: The Autobiography of a Baby, a Memoir in Prose Poems (Third World Press): “I have never read a book like Puddin’, and I’ve read tens of thousands of them….It is unique. …

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Hallowed ground

Which is this nation's most hallowed ground? The phrase has been used to describe the Gettysburg battlefield, Arlington National Cemetery and Ground Zero. I write about this question in an op-ed piece in today's Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0909-hallowed-20110909,0,7298628.story

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