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Neil Steinberg is a news columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times, blogs at everygoddamnday.com, and wrote "Every Goddamn Day," for the University of Chicago Press.

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Neil Steinberg is a daily news columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he has been on staff since 1987. He has also written for Rolling Stone, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, The New York Times Sunday Magazine and many other publications. The author of seven books, his latest, "You Were Never in Chicago," is being published this fall by the University of Chicago Press.

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Illinois is America’s pumpkin capital; here's why

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A pumpkin seed weighs about 1/100th of an ounce, when planted in April. By late September, through an unappreciated conspiracy of miracles: the balm of time, the embrace of Midwest weather, the kiss of rich soil and the careful application of husbandry — fertilizer spread, pests thwarted — managed by Illinois farmers, some who have been at this for generations, that little oval the size of a fingernail can increase in size 18,000 times, into a 12-pound pumpkin, ready for picking.
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Polish poet turns words of Holocaust victims, perpetrators into shards of 'memory activism' Original

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during the war we laid out bodies like wood but after the war we laid out wood in the forest like bodies freshly felled. Grzegorz Kwiatkowski is not Jewish, but reads his poetry like an Orthodox Jew praying, bending at the waist, rocking forward and back.
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Illinois is the Land of Lincoln, the Prairie State and… America’s Pumpkin Capital. Here's why.

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A pumpkin seed weighs about 1/100th of an ounce, when planted in April. By late September, through an unappreciated conspiracy of miracles: the balm of time, the embrace of Midwest weather, the kiss of rich soil and the careful application of husbandry — fertilizer spread, pests thwarted — managed by Illinois farmers, some who have been at this for generations, that little oval the size of a fingernail can increase in size 18,000 times, into a 12-pound pumpkin, ready for picking.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Columnist/entertainment editor at The Barrington Courier-Review

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes.

How is social media changing news?

Distributing news source content in a general, instantaneous manner. Makes it much, much easier to find people to talk about any subject.