Everyone’s a critic, and yet no one seems to know what a critic’s good for. Or at least this is how New York Times film critic A. O. Scott started off his […]
Sound Criticism in the Noise of Opinions: A. O. Scott Speaks at Seminary Coop
A Translation of Rita Indiana’s PAPI Is a Reading Experience
This month, University of Chicago Press released a translation of Papi, the best selling novel by Dominican writer, Rita Indiana. This is the first english translation of Indiana’s work. Papi is the […]
Asymptote Journal: A Five-Year Anniversary Celebration
Experimental Japanese translations. Interviews with National Book Award finalists. Mexican Twitter fiction. Ancient Babylonian texts and contemporary underground Uyghur poetry. These are just a few of the offerings from literary translation journal Asymptote. Asymptote has […]
Zoe Zolbrod’s Thought Provoking Memoir “The Telling” Out in May
I first heard Zoe Zolbrod read in a coffee shop in Logan Square a couple months ago. She was skinny, 40s-ish, and had arm tattoos and a mane of silver streaked dark […]
An Interview with Adam Morgan, founder of Chicago Review of Books
I recently had the opportunity to talk to book critic, author, and fellow Gapers Block alumnus, Adam Morgan, about his newly launched site, Chicago Review of Books. As a lit-loving localvore, few […]
Preview: Loyola University Chicago to Celebrate Carl Sandburg’s Chicago Poems
“Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, […]
The Chicago Review of Terrible Books: Kill the Clown
When I looked at the gathering again, almost all of the heads were turned toward me. Nearly two hundred pairs of eyes stared at me. The band stopped playing suddenly. I knew […]
R.O.W.E. Week 11: A Posting Hiatus
I’m Brianna Kratz, a Chicago poet and literature enthusiast. In 2016, I’m reading only women authors for my Read Only Women Experiment (R.O.W.E.). For weekly updates on challenges, conversations, and round-up lists […]
Poetry fest unleashes the political imaginations of Chicago’s youth
A select group of high school-aged Chicago lyricists will take the stage at Roosevelt University’s Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress Pkwy., Saturday for the finals of the 2016 Louder Than A Bomb […]
R.O.W.E. Week 10: Fifty Shades of Not Okay
I’m Brianna Kratz, a Chicago poet and literature enthusiast. In 2016, I’m reading only women authors for my Read Only Women Experiment (R.O.W.E.). For weekly updates on challenges, conversations, and round-up lists […]
R.O.W.E. Week 9: Let’s Get Down to Business!
I’m Brianna Kratz, a Chicago poet and literature enthusiast. In 2016, I’m reading only women authors for my Read Only Women Experiment (R.O.W.E.). For weekly updates on challenges, conversations, and round-up lists […]
UofC Professor Writes Memoir about Father’s View of Miscarriage
Daniel Raeburn, a creative writing professor at the University of Chicago, has recently written a memoir which will be released this month by W.W. Norton & Co. Entitled Vessels: A Love Story […]
