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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 West’s Saving Ruby King, two men and two women can […]

  • 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, $24.99 Kristina Gehrmann’s graphic novel version of Upton Sinclair’s 1906 […]

  • 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 Carr Harkrader joining us and sharing their impeccable insights. Reardon […]

  • 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 Robert Johnson is a definitive legend, though the dead-at-27 bluesman […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • July 18, 2019
    • 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 minute. I’ve asked that before. But it’s a question worth […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • May 1, 2019
    • 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 Finnegan, author Steve Wiley frames the city in a milieu […]

  • Guest Author
  • August 8, 2017
    • Art & Museums , Lit , Reviews

    Tony Fitzpatrick and the Secret Birds

    “At some point, we realize the horrible power we have over other living things. I think we reach a certain state of grace when we tire of extinguishing life, no […]

  • Andrew Hertzberg
  • July 22, 2016
    • Lit , Reviews

    Review: Disco Demolition Night by Dave Hoekstra

    The front page of the July 13, 1979, issue of the Chicago Sun-Times featured a photo of Sox fans storming the field. In the background, the scoreboard reads “please return to your […]

  • Robert O'Connor
  • June 14, 2016
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