New York-based writer L.A. Chandlar is the author of The Silver Gun and the just-published The Gold Pawn, the first two books in her Art Deco Mystery series. I spoke with her by […]
I wish I could describe Edward McClelland in legendary terms—it would be so damned apropos. I’d tell you he’s as tall as a redwood, as strong as a herd of wild […]
Cemeteries remind us this is a city of change in multiple ways. Not just the impermanence and fragility of life, but in the ways the landscape of the city shifts with growth. […]
Gift-giving season is upon us, and with it the existential dread that comes with finding the perfect present. In our modern age of two-day shipping, free returns, and constant stream of transactions, […]
Ever scribbled a substitution in the margins of a cookbook? That page is technically now a manuscript, which is the main ingredient of a culinary history. Culinary history focuses on how food […]
Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties is a brilliant collection that makes you forget normal short stories. The most experimental story in her debut–at least in terms of form–is the […]
Two Countries: US Daughters & Sons of Immigrant Parents is a new anthology published by Red Hen Press. We sat down with the editor of the collection Tina Schumann to discover what […]
Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road in what is often described as a three-week burst of creativity. He typed furiously (100 words a minute) on his Underwood portable typewriter and the output […]
Chicago’s American Writers Museum is launching two new program series this fall among their range of public programming relating to all forms of American writing. Tuesday First Books highlights the first books of […]
