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Review: A Feel-Good Novel about Coping Together, Everybody Here Is Kin, by BettyJoyce Nash

BettyJoyce Nash will be at The Book Cellar at 4736 N Lincoln Ave. in Chicago at 7pm on Thursday, October 26, to discuss her new novel Everybody Here is Kin […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • October 25, 2023
    • Essays , Events , Fiction , Lit , Nonfiction , Poetry

    Shortlist Announced for 2023 Chicago Review of Books Awards

    The 2023 Chicago Review of Books Awards shortlist includes literary works ranging in subject matter from queer motherhood to belonging and migration, Chicago’s Black cowboy culture, and women’s overlooked heroism during World War II.

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • October 20, 2023
    • Chicago history , Events , Fiction , Interviews , Lit , Live lit events

    The Haunting of Hemingway House: Four Women Writers Make Hemingway’s Childhood Home a Clean, Well-Frighted Place

    Note: The event is sold out, but Ernest Hemingway’s Birthplace Museum continues to present tours and weekly events all year round. As the quintessential literary man’s man, it’s easy to […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • October 18, 2023
    • Chicago history , Chicago history , Fiction , Lit

    Review: A Sparkling, Gritty, and Compassionate Collection, Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home: Stories, by Ana Castillo

    The seven stories in Ana Castillo’s sparkling and new, yet gritty and compassionate collection Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home, share several common themes. Ghosts, for one, including a beautiful naked woman […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • October 17, 2023
    • Architecture , Beyond , Chicago history , Chicago history , Children's books , Comics and Graphic Novels , Fiction , Lit , Nonfiction , Poetry

    Essay: In Defense of “Unregulated” Little Free Libraries

    Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th) thinks the little free libraries along many Chicago sidewalks are bad—very bad. They are “unregulated”! And they’re “popular”! And many of them are planted in city soil! (Collective […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • October 12, 2023
    • Fiction , Lit , Reviews

    Review: Bewitching Hollywood Flappers and Fairies in Kathleen Rooney’s From Dust to Stardust

    At one point in Kathleen Rooney’s bewitching new novel From Dust to Stardust, the iconic Hollywood flapper Doreen O’Dare says to an interviewer, “What I’ve figured out is that the […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • September 29, 2023
    • Dialogs , Events , Fiction , Lit , Live lit events

    Dialogs: Zadie Smith’s New Historical Fiction The Fraud Plumbed at Chicago Humanities Festival Event

    Fiction is a “medium that must always allow itself…the possibility of expressing intimate and inconvenient truths,” acclaimed London-born author Zadie Smith once said. She recently stopped by Lincoln Park’s Francis […]

  • Karin McKie
  • September 28, 2023
    • Events , Fiction , Interviews , Lit , Live lit events

    Dialogs: Kathleen Rooney and Ignatius Aloysius Discuss Creation of Her New Novel at Writers Museum

    Chicago author Kathleen Rooney writes in many genres—fiction, non-fiction, essays, poetry—even Poems While You Wait. She has written several historical fiction novels in her own distinctive style. Heavily researched, novelized, written in […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • September 9, 2023
    • Fiction , Interviews , Lit , Previews

    Interview: Kathleen Rooney on Silent Film Stars, Fairies, and Her New Book From Dust to Stardust

    I first encountered Chicago author Kathleen Rooney years ago at The Neo-Futurists’ funky New Year’s Eve bash, where her collective Poems While You Wait was delightfully typing up custom poetry […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • September 7, 2023
    • Children's books , Fiction , Lit

    Review: Wonder and Joy and Questions, The Happy Prince & Other Tales, by Oscar Wilde

    It’s something of a surprise to be reminded that Oscar Wilde—the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and the subject of a scandalous 1895 trial over consensual homosexual acts—wrote […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • August 24, 2023
    • Fiction , Lit , Reviews

    Review: Julia Fine Weaves an Alluring Gothic Fairy Tale in Maddalena and the Dark

    Vividly set amongst the winding cobblestone streets and shadowy canals of 18th century Venice, Chicago writer Julia Fine’s Maddalena and the Dark is a wonderfully moody, gothic fairy tale about […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • August 14, 2023
    • Events , Fiction , Interviews , Lit , Live lit events

    Toya Wolfe’s Last Summer on State Street Wins $25,000 Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award

    Most readers are familiar with the more prestigious annual book prizes out there, among them the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the PEN America Literary Awards. A new […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • July 12, 2023
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