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Frank Sennett

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  • Executive Editor, Connect, Stacker
Chicago
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SHADOW STATE, Best New Novel by a Chicagoan-@Chicago_Reader. Exec Editor, Connect @Stacker, @SNHU MFA adjunct Past: @CrainsChicago @TimeOutChicago @MTV @Newcity
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Proud Boys Convictions May Counter Extremist Law Enforcement Infiltration

Proud Boys Convictions May Counter Extremist Law Enforcement Infiltration

Newsweek — The lack of a formal domestic terror designation demonstrably hinders efforts to remove individuals affiliated with such groups from law enforcement.
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5 Crime Novels That Deepen Our Understanding of Collective Trauma

5 Crime Novels That Deepen Our Understanding of Collective Trauma

CrimeReads — Set in the aftermath of national tragedy, these books help readers contextualize societal wounds even as they explore compelling mysteries
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Behind Groupon's $6 Billion Brushoff of Google

Behind Groupon's $6 Billion Brushoff of Google

Wall Street Journal — An excerpt from Frank Sennett's book Groupon's Biggest Deal Ever details the drama behind Groupon's rejection of a $6 billion acquisition offer from Google.
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Can Michael Jordan rebound?

Can Michael Jordan rebound?

timeoutchicago.com — Michael Jordan has gone cold...
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Boost girls' interest in science and technology to the next stage

Boost girls' interest in science and technology to the next stage

Curriculum Review — An interview with astronaut Sally Ride
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The latest revival of Sondheim's Company is a gender revelation

The latest revival of Sondheim's Company is a gender revelation

chicagocultureauthority.com — In the summer of 2016, when director Marianne Elliott first workshopped the revival of Company she and Stephen Sondheim were updating with a woman in the role of Bobby (now Bobbie), she emailed the composer and lyricist to note that the cameraman loved the show but thought it was a new work. When Elliott explained it was an update of a 1970 musical that featured a male protagonist, he replied, “Bobbie a man? But how could that work?” Yes. Exactly.
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Exit interview: Mayor Daley

Exit interview: Mayor Daley

timeoutchicago.com — On the eve of his retirement, Richard M. Daley talks about segregation, parking meters and losing the handgun-legalization battle.
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Stalking Charles Willeford's Elusive Grimhaven

Stalking Charles Willeford's Elusive Grimhaven

Booklist — You won’t find Charles Willeford’s lost Hoke Moseley novel, Grimhaven, through the corner bookshop, Amazon, Alibris, or even eBay. But you might be able to read it at your local library—so long as you live in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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The Death of Matt Helm?

The Death of Matt Helm?

Booklist — Over the course of his 42-year, 27-book career, shadowy U.S. government assassin Matt Helm has been drugged, shot, beaten, stabbed, rammed off roads, targeted by explosives, tortured with a soldering iron, doused with acid, injected with bubonic plague, and slipped more Mickeys than Minnie Mouse.
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Hit Man: Lawrence Block's Third Act

Hit Man: Lawrence Block's Third Act

Booklist — When you’ve published more than 100 novels spanning five major series characters over the course of 55 years, you’re entitled to think long and hard about hanging it up. If retirement’s good enough for Philip Roth, why not you? Yet when Lawrence Block tells me, regarding potential future book projects, “I think I may have run out,” I feel the urge to protest.
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Don’t discount Groupon’s legacy too deeply

Don’t discount Groupon’s legacy too deeply

Crain's Chicago Business — Groupon’s 2010 decision not to sell the Chicago-based online-deal company to Google for $5.75 billion will go down as one of the biggest blown calls in the history of e-commerce, right up there with Blockbuster declining to buy Netflix for $50 million...
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