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Review: Bewitching Hollywood Flappers and Fairies in Kathleen Rooney’s From Dust to Stardust

At one point in Kathleen Rooney’s bewitching new novel From Dust to Stardust, the iconic Hollywood flapper Doreen O’Dare says…

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • September 29, 2023
  • Events, Fiction, Interviews, Lit, Live lit events

Toya Wolfe’s Last Summer on State Street Wins $25,000 Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award

Most readers are familiar with the more prestigious annual book prizes out there, among them the National Book Award, the…

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • July 12, 2023
  • Fiction, Lit

Review: Take a Seat at the Bar in Island City, by Laura Adamczyk

When was the last time you told a story to a stranger at a bar? Not an anecdote about your…

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • April 28, 2023
  • Lit, Nonfiction

Review: Anti-Racist and More, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop, by Felicia Rose Chavez

The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom by Felicia Rose Chavez Haymarket Books, 216 pages, $14.97 Chicago’s…

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • April 7, 2022
  • Design, Lit, Nonfiction, Photography

Book Review: Push Butt, Receive Bacon, Hand Dryers, by Samuel Ryde

Hand Dryers By Samuel Ryde Unicorn Publishing Group Distributed by the University of Chicago Press Books In the appropriately senseless…

  • Dan Kelly
  • January 18, 2021
  • 1 Comment
  • Lit

Call for Chicago Lit Writers, Reviewers, and Subjects!

If you’re interested in covering the Chicago and Midwest lit scenes, and want to promote local authors, booksellers, or publishers,…

  • Dan Kelly
  • July 6, 2020
  • 2 Comments
  • Lit, Reviews, Uncategorized

Book Review: South Side Chick Lit, Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West

Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West Park Row Books, 312 pages, $27.99 In the closing pages of Catherine Adel…

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • June 16, 2020
  • Comics and Graphic Novels, Fiction, Lit, Reviews, Uncategorized

Book Review: Gritty, Oppressive, but Not Ugly Enough, “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair Gets the Graphic Novel Treatment

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, adapted and illustrated by Kristina Gehrmann, translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger Ten Speed Press, 384 pages,…

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • April 7, 2020
  • Events, Fiction, Interviews, Lists, Lit, Live lit events, Poetry, Reviews

A Literary Look Back at 2019

The Third Coast Review Lit Department had a very full year, with new writers Patrick T. Reardon, Terry Galvan, and…

  • Dan Kelly
  • December 30, 2019
  • Lit, Music, Reviews

“I Wanna Go on with That Next One Myself”: Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson

Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson By Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow Chicago Review Press…

  • Dan Kelly
  • July 18, 2019
  • 7 Comments
  • Lit, Reviews

Book Review:“The Beauty of Inclusion,” Chicago Treasure by Larry Broutman, Rich Green, and John Rabias

Chicago Treasure by Larry Broutman, Rich Green, and John Rabias Lake Claremont Press Is Chicago a fairy-tale city? Wait a…

  • Dan Kelly
  • May 1, 2019
  • 1 Comment
  • Lit, Reviews

Steve Wiley’s Grown-up Chicago Fairytale Lacks a Happy Ending

Steve Wiley, Fairytale Chicago,

New York is a city of legends. Los Angeles is a town of myths. In The Fairytale Chicago of Francesca…

  • Guest Author
  • August 8, 2017
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