Growing up and living female in America is a perilous endeavor. There is the gropey swimming coach, the miscarriages, the catcalls as you ride your bike, the malicious male colleague, […]
Richard Engling is a Chicago theater guy—actor, director, artistic director. He’s taken his years of experience as the raw material for a trilogy of novels about life in Chicago storefront […]
General readers, beware! Tom Comitta’s new book Patchwork isn’t for you. Patchwork isn’t for someone who wants a novel that tells a story and has characters and settings and scenes. […]
As my household library shifts from Brown Bear and Pig the Pug into Harry Potter, Unicorn Academy, and various heavy tomes about dinosaurs, there is one constant that remains, books […]
On Saturday, August 9 and Sunday, August 10, Roscoe Village’s The Last Chapter Book Shop is celebrating Bookstore Romance Day. Amanda Anderson, the store’s owner and dedicated proponent for romance […]
When it came time to choose between literature and the law, Adam Kaz went with the written word. Now the writer, editor, and critic (and regular contributor to Third Coast […]
For much of Chicago’s history, its strident boosters with their overblown assertions of the city’s present and, even more, its future greatness have been a subject of ridicule. In 1952, […]
Elikki just broke a man’s wrist and she doesn’t regret it. What? He was being a creep and not backing down so the normally bubbly and lovely elf Elikki summoned […]
Ernie Banks and Minnie Minoso are the headliners in Don Zminda’s book Justice Batted Last: Ernie Banks, Minnie Minoso and the Unheralded Players Who Integrated Chicago’s Major League Teams. But […]
The Right Hand, the latest poetry collection by Christina Pugh, possesses abstraction dancing with tradition, faith with the mystical, form that examines line and white space with the material body. […]
Ulysses. The book Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company published in Paris in 1922. The book that was banned in the US and the UK. The book people either love or […]
Damian Serbu has often found inspiration in Chicagoland. Several characters in his Realm of the Vampire Council series, for instance, dwell in the Windy City itself. Self-described as an “author […]