A former employee speaks with the store’s proprietors, Ronda Pilon and Bob Roschke, about the shuttering of their long-standing bookstore.
Author Archives: Jerome Ludwig
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Brian Doyle’s Chicago is rose-tinted and hard to dislike
A novel set in early-80s Lakeview goes heavy on the Kodachrome.
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15 Chicago-set stories explore the darker side of humanity in Chicago Noir
Local author Joe Meno’s Chicago Noir: The Classics compiles stories from the likes of Stuart Dybek, Patricia Highsmith, and Nelson Algren—some more hard boiled than others.
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The essays in Tony Fitzpatrick’s Dime Stories are enlightening, funny as hell
In this collection of Newcity columns, the artist-poet-writer renders strong opinions in lovely, frank prose.
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Chicago: City on the Make vs. Boss: Greatest Chicago Book Tournament, round two
One of these literary heavyweights will have to defeat the other . . . by a nose.
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Sixteen fun facts about 16 cartoonists who changed the world
Local illustrator/designer Monte Beauchamp has two excellent new books out for devotees of comics and pulps.
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Naked Girls Reading Literary Honors Award winner Patty Templeton on her debut novel
The first-ever Naked Girls Reading Literary Honors Award winner presents her debut novel.
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Best New Book by a Former Chicago Golden Gloves Champ
When he describes an ass whoopin’, you know he knows what he’s talking about.
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In Bill Hillmann’s novel The Old Neighborhood, Edgewater is rife with violence and revenge
Bill Hillmann’s novel tells the story of a young man’s struggle to survive amid a world of gangs and racism.
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In Bedrock Faith, there’s more than one way to terrorize a neighborhood
Columbia College writing prof Eric Charles May’s debut novel is a suspenseful meditation on the good and evil inherent in everyone
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Renee Rosen’s Dollface captures Prohibition-era Chicago in all of its flappery, gangstery glory
And the author has multiple readings in the forthcoming days ahead.
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From countercultural childhood to creative writing instructor
Kelly Daniels’s memoir chronicles a life following a most unusual upbringing
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Chikaming Country Club at 100
A centennial history of the Lakeside, Michigan, country club