Barnes &Noble.com Showcases Author Scott Turow At Bn.com Lounge Series.Entertainment/Feature Editors CHICAGO--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Feb. 10, 2000 &uot;Personal Injuries&uot; Author Scott Turow Reads At Jilly's Retro Club In Chicago On February 28th Barnes &Noble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) announced today that it continues its nationwide Lounge Series in Chicago with Scott Turow, author of Personal Injuries. The Barnes &Noble.com Lounge Series is a year-long program sponsored by American Express American Express (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as "AmEx" or "Amex", is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card and traveler's cheque businesses. , featuring popular authors appearing at popular city nightspots. The series is comprised of 20 events to be held throughout the year in major cities, including New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Boston, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Chicago and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . The Chicago event will be held Monday, February 28th at Jilly's Retro Club, 1007 North Rush, in downtown Chicago from 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. &uot;Authors and their books are the heart of Barnes &Noble.com,&uot; said Carl Rosendorf, senior vice president, Barnes &Noble.com. &uot;We're pleased to have one of the country's most respected writers of legal fiction participate in our Lounge Series. We are proud to join with American Express in bringing authors and readers closer together.&uot; Mr. Turow's first book, One L, about his first year as a student at Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (colloquially, Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard Law is considered one of the most prestigious law schools in the United States. , was published in 1977. Ten years later, his first novel, Presumed Innocent, became a best seller, rising to the top of The New York Times hardcover list, where it remained for two months and later became a blockbuster movie starring Harrison Ford. His subsequent novels include Burden of Proof (1990), Pleading Guilty (1993) and The Laws of Our Fathers (1996). Personal Injuries was released in October of 1999. Tickets for the Scott Turow event at Jilly's will be available to the general public through Ticketmaster for $10 each. For more information visit http://www.bn.com/lounge. The Lounge Series began in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. in January with the author of Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell. The series will continue on April 3rd in Los Angeles with Bret Easton Ellis Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author. He is considered to be one of the major Generation X authors[1] and was regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack,[2] , author of Glamorama as well as American Psycho, which will be a major motion picture. About Barnes &Noble.com Since launching its online business in May, 1997, Barnes &Noble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) has become one of the world's largest Web sites and the fourth largest e-commerce site, according to Media Metrix. 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