If you like books, if you really like books — if you are the kind of person whose books overrun your house, whose book budget exceeds your food budget, the kind of person who can spend an afternoon or the whole weekend in a bookstore, the BookExpo America convention is something like paradise . . […]
Gale Walden
Gale Walden is an Urbana resident,
author of the poetry book Same Blue Chevy, and political correspondent for
the now-defunct Octopus.
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The big show
As I prepare to leave my hometown of Urbana for the Democratic National Convention, I notice that many, many people in our fair town seem to want George W. Bush out of office. A couple of streets are awash in yellow-and-black signs stating, “Regime Change Begins at Home.” And as far as I can tell, […]
