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Bites: What Author S.L. Wisenberg Eats in a Day

S.L. Wisenberg’s The Adventures of Cancer Bitch came out this month in paperback from Tortoise Books to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the original release. Her hilarious tackling of serious […]

  • Caroline Huftalen
  • October 29, 2024
    • Events , Interviews , Lit , Live lit events , Poetry

    Chicago Is Lit: August Live Literature Events and Readings

    Poems While You Wait crafting original typewritten poetry-on-demand

    This month’s column explores another reason Chicago’s literary scene is “lit”: the wide variety of live literature events held in neighborhoods across the city. From conversations with award-winning authors to […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • August 3, 2024
    • Lit , Reviews

    Review: Iliana Regan’s Fieldwork Digs Down to the Root

    Iliana Regan is a Michelin-starred chef and owner of Milkweed Inn deep in the Hiawatha Forest. Regan’s memoir, Fieldwork, recently celebrated its paperback release. It couldn’t have come at a […]

  • Caroline Huftalen
  • June 24, 2024
    • Events , Fiction , Interviews , Lit

    Interview: Ananda Lima Launches Fiction Debut With Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

    Ananda Lima’s fiction debut, Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, launches at Women and Children First this Friday, June 21. Filled with double meanings, a very meta perspective, rebellions […]

  • Caroline Huftalen
  • June 20, 2024
    • Lit , Reviews

    Review: A Dazzling Debut—The Divorcées, by Rowan Beaird

    The Divorcees by Rowan Beaird

    No-fault divorces are currently legal in every US state, making it relatively easy to end an unhappy marriage. It may be hard to imagine how recently “irreconcilable differences” were not […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • May 8, 2024
    • Events , Interviews , Lit , Nonfiction

    Interview: Columnist Georgia Garvey on Her Greek Heritage and New Book, Everything Is Going to Be Okay (Until It’s Not)

    Cover of Everything Is Going to Be Okay (Until It's Not) by Georgia Garvey

    The phrase “it’s all Greek to me” is often used to refer to complicated things people cannot understand. Yet for award-winning columnist and former Chicago Tribune editor Georgia Garvey, her […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • January 17, 2024
    • Fiction , Interviews , Lit , Previews

    Interview: Kathleen Rooney on Silent Film Stars, Fairies, and Her New Book From Dust to Stardust

    I first encountered Chicago author Kathleen Rooney years ago at The Neo-Futurists’ funky New Year’s Eve bash, where her collective Poems While You Wait was delightfully typing up custom poetry […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • September 7, 2023
    • Fiction , Interviews , Lit

    Interview: Pigeon English: A Talk with Author Kathleen Rooney

    Chicago writer Kathleen Rooney recently released her latest novel, Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey. A fictional retelling of the true story of World War I’s “Lost Battalion” (though mostly regarding […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • October 13, 2020
    • Fiction , Lit , Reviews , Uncategorized

    Book Review: Relentless, Raw Outrage, Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore

    Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore Harper, 306 pages, $26.99 Elizabeth Wetmore’s Valentine, set in 1976 rural West Texas, is a novel of relentless and brutally raw outrage. A fury-filled howl of […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • July 30, 2020
    • Fiction , Lit

    Fresh Local Lit: “Tabernacle for Drinkers” from Iggy Aloysius’ Fishhead. Republic of Want

    Fishhead. Republic of Want is an experimental novel by Ignatius Valentine Aloysius. It’s a layered metafictional work in the style of Cervantes and Borges, where Fate (Destiny) is the story’s overarching narrator, […]

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  • October 4, 2016
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