 Here's an unorthodox suggestion: Try to read Haruki Murakami's "1Q84" in as close to a single sitting as you can. It won't be easy — the novel clocks in at 926 pages and is often densely allusive, if readable throughout.  | Scintillating prose — the second time around On the fifth floor of the Chicago Tribune Tower is a square windowless room accessed by a single door. This room is called, with a regrettable lack of imagination, the Book Room. |  | Low-rent Chicago lawyers get in over their heads Do we need any more evidence than the last 20 years' worth of best-seller lists of the huge human longing — specifically, the huge American human longing — for entertaining and sustained fictional narrative? In other words, for popular novels? |  | Literature at Chicago Live! Chicago poet and educator Kevin Coval performs an excerpt from his new poetry collection, "L-vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems." | |  | |
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