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Review: Out of the Basement Describes the Birth of the Punk Scene in Rockford

Out of the Basement: From Cheap Trick to DIY Punk in Rockford, Illinois, 1973-2005 is an autobiographical look at how the punk music scene started in David Ensminger’s hometown of Rockford, […]

  • Kate Scott
  • January 30, 2017
    • Lit , Live lit events , Reviews

    Review: James Tadd Adcox, Repetition James Tadd Adcox, Repetition

    James Tadd Adcox’s new novella is available in paperback and ebook on Cobalt Press. He will be reading at the Sunday Salon at the Riverview Tavern (1958 W Roscoe) on Sunday January […]

  • Andrew Hertzberg
  • January 26, 2017
    • Lit , Reviews

    Review: Donika Kelly’s Bestiary Confronts Monstrous Humanity

    As soon as we enter Donika Kelly’s Bestiary through its first poem, “Out West”, we undergo a transformation.  Under Kelly’s invitation to “rely… on the thrumming wilderness of self,” we expand […]

  • Ariel Clark-Semyck
  • January 13, 2017
    • Fiction , Lit , Reviews

    Review: Goat Days Will Leave You in a Daze

    Najeeb’s childhood dream was to become a goatherd. His dream comes true, but in the form a nightmare. Benyamin’s Goat Days follows the twisted turns of Najeeb’s life. First published in […]

  • Sherry Zhong
  • January 12, 2017
    • Lit , Reviews

    Barry Gifford’s New York, 1960 Is a Tender Remembrance

    “I was about to speak to her/ but hesitated when I realized/ she was browsing through/ the Self-Help section,” writes Barry Gifford in his poem “In a Used Bookstore.” Appearing […]

  • Emma Terhaar
  • January 3, 2017
    • Lit , Music , Reviews

    Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout Is a Heartbreaking Trans Memoir

    Standing onstage, Laura Jane Grace is the embodiment of a punk rocker. Part Joan Jett, part Debbie Harry, Grace commands her pop-punk band Against Me! with ease and a crooked smile. […]

  • Kate Scott
  • December 19, 2016
    • Fiction , Lit , Reviews

    Review:Illusions of Magic: Love and intrigue in 1933 Chicago

    Illusions of Magic: Love and Intrigue in 1933 Chicago resurrects three little-known aspects of history: the 1933 assassination attempt on Franklin D. Roosevelt that killed Chicago mayor Anton Cermak, the […]

  • Guest Author
  • December 16, 2016
    • Lit , Reviews

    Review: Ron Faiola’s Wisconsin Supper Clubs Another Round

    Ron Faiola is no stranger to supper clubs, especially those scattered throughout our neighbor state to the north. Wisconsin Supper Clubs: Another Round is his second glossy coffee-table book focusing on […]

  • James Orbesen
  • December 14, 2016
    • Lit , Reviews

    Book Review: Kevin Smokler’s Brat Pack America

    Movies are a global business. This is something close to an axiom given how Hollywood iconography has swaddled the globe. Audiences from Berlin to (formerly) Bombay became acquainted with silver […]

  • James Orbesen
  • December 12, 2016
    • Lit , Reviews

    Review: Embracing Regional Dialects in Ted McClelland’s How to Speak Midwestern

    Ted McClelland will be doing a reading and signing for the launch of How to Speak Midwestern at the Book Cellar (4736 N. Lincoln) at 7pm tonight, Thursday, December 1. A […]

  • Andrew Hertzberg
  • December 1, 2016
    • Lit , Reviews

    Nelson Algren Biography Explores the Writer’s Struggles with Life and Craft

    Nelson Algren was a star in Chicago’s bright literary firmament, but his light dimmed in the years after he won the 1950 National Book Award for The Man With the […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • November 30, 2016
    • Lists , Lit , Reviews

    15 Years of Haymarket Books

    The results of last week’s presidential election stirred different feelings in many people: confusion, despair, melancholy, detachment, anger. I’ve seen more people on my social media feeds posting politically related […]

  • Andrew Hertzberg
  • November 16, 2016
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