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Sailor rescued after boat capsizes BY ADRIENNE FAWCETT
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ake Bluff resident David Barkhausen was walking along the bluff at Sunrise Park this past Sunday when he saw with binoculars what he thought was a capsized sailboat far out on choppy Lake Michigan. He called the Lake Bluff Police Department’s nonemergency number, which resulted in a rush of police and fire personnel from Lake Bluff, Knollwood, Lake Forest and the U.S. Coast Guard. It also resulted in the rescue of a distressed sailor. Crews from Lake Bluff and Knollwood took off in a rescue boat from Lake Bluff ’s beach, while Lake Forest paramedics headed out from the Forest Park Beach harbor in their boat. Continued on PG 13
IN HER BOOK
Fascinating characters abound in Rebecca Makkai’s collection of short stories Library and on Sept. 10 at 7 p.m. at Northbrook Public Library. ake Bluff native and Lake Gregg Shapiro: Rebecca, if you Forest resident Rebecca don’t mind, I’d like to begin by Makkai is a North Shore talking about the Music For treasure. Wartime cover, which is reminisHer debut novel The Borrower cent of a bygone era. I know that and her second novel The Hundred- authors aren’t usually involved in Year House not only earned her the book cover process, but I was critical praise and awards but also wondering what you think of it. a dedicated following of readers Rebecca Makkai: I love it! I who love her talent for telling know plenty of authors who have marvelous stories. no say-so in their book jackets. I’m That aptitude is once again on fortunate that my agent and I display, this time in a short story basically have veto power on the collection titled Music For Wartime cover. My editor is amazing, and (Viking). The 17 stories, including she lets us gives a lot of input into one as short as little more than a things like what artists we’re page, feature an assortment of choosing. My first two books had creative and fascinating characters hand-drawn covers, and we worked — musicians and composers, pho- with the artist on that. tographers and other visual artists, For Music For Wartime, it’s hard circus people and reality TV people for a story collection because — all of whom are survivors in one there’s not one central image that you can necessarily latch onto the way or another. Makkai will read on Aug. 12 at way that for The Hundred-Year 10:30 a.m. at Highland Park Public House they could put a house on BY GREGG SHAPIRO
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Author Rebecca Makkai
the cover. They sent us some proposals that were cool. There was one with a bird’s talons swooping down. Nothing was quite right. They were getting sort of close and then suddenly, out of nowhere, they sent us this (image that became the cover). It was so bold and graphic and cool. The font, I felt, was sort of a throwback, like you said, to an earlier era. It almost feels
What should be done about vacant houses? BY JULIE KEMP PICK
home on Barberry Road in Highland ired of being “held hostage,” Park. “We need to put the pressure on David Schuster said he wants to change the law about vacant banks so that a house cannot remain houses like the one next door to his vacant for over a certain amount of
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like a reissue of Kafka or something. GS: Can you please say something about determining the order of the stories in a collection such as Music For Wartime? RM: I thought of it in terms of putting together an album. Of course, no one listens to whole albums anymore. But back when we did…
time without a penalty,” said Schuster. He described how water bills used to pile up on the front lawn of the vacant house. Wild animals and insects made themselves at home there. The Highland Park native has resided in town for more than 50 years and is an award-winning reporter for WSCR-AM/670 (The Score). At a Highland Park City Council meeting, Schuster suggested that the vacant
GS: …actually, all the kids are listening to vinyl these days. RM: [Laughs] Great! The way a musical artist put together an album — they were trying to tell a story with the order as well as with each song. There’s a lot to the order of this collection. It starts with the story “The Singing Continued on PG 12
property be put on the market for a “low-ball price,” like a foreclosed property in the neighborhood. “In essence this house is holding our community hostage, because it is run down. My house has been on the market for four or five months and I didn’t get one nibble,” he said. “Now I can’t tell you 100 percent that it was because of the abandoned house next Continued on PG 13
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