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Commune With the City’s Dead In New Book About Chicago Cemeteries, Chicago Eternal

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 […]

  • Andrew Hertzberg
  • April 2, 2018
    • Lit

    Title 13: Good Game Plan, Faulty Execution

    Title 13, the debut novel of Michael A. Ferro, has all the trappings of an engaging conspiracy thriller. There are secret internal documents regarding the personal information of US citizens, […]

  • James Orbesen
  • February 15, 2018
    • Food , Lit , Reviews

    The Chicago Food Encyclopedia: The Best Gift for the Food Obsessed

    The gift-giving season is upon us. And if you are like me, you struggle to find the perfect gift for the person who seems to have everything. Happily, I have […]

  • Cynthia Kallile
  • November 10, 2017
    • Lit , Reviews

    Review: Windy City Blues Layers Love and Politics Over the Early Days of Chicago Electric Blues

    Note: Windy City Blues has been selected by Spertus Institute for its One Book One Community book of the year. Spertus has several events planned around Rosen’s book. If you […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • October 29, 2017
    • Fiction , Lit , Reviews

    Book Review: Mycology and its Mighty Ending

    Joan Wilking’s prose is breezy even though the material is heavy. Her first book Mycology is the winner of the 2016 Wild Onion Novella Prize bestowed by Chicago publisher Curbside Splendor. […]

  • Sherry Zhong
  • October 11, 2017
    • Lit , Reviews

    Review: Sarah Manguso’s 300 Arguments

    300 Arguments, Graywolf Press, Sarah Manguso

    Guest author Evan Bryson studied painting and writing in Indiana. He lives in Chicago and works in higher ed. Here he reflects on Sarah Manguso’s book 300 Arguments published by […]

  • Guest Author
  • May 16, 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: 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
    • 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
    • Fiction , Lit , Reviews

    Review: Brian Doyle’s Chicago— A 300 Page Love Letter

    About the reviewer: Susannah Pratt is a Chicago-based consultant by day, reader/writer by night, who is currently preparing for the forthcoming winter by stocking up on books. You can find […]

  • Guest Author
  • October 3, 2016
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