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Home » Archives for Jerome Ludwig

Author Archives: Jerome Ludwig

Posted inArts & Culture

Remembering Wrigleyville’s Bookworks, which will close this fall

by Jerome Ludwig August 8, 2016August 18, 2021

A former employee speaks with the store’s proprietors, Ronda Pilon and Bob Roschke, about the shuttering of their long-standing bookstore.

Posted inArts & Culture

Brian Doyle’s Chicago is rose-tinted and hard to dislike

by Jerome Ludwig May 4, 2016August 18, 2021

A novel set in early-80s Lakeview goes heavy on the Kodachrome.

Posted inBlogs

15 Chicago-set stories explore the darker side of humanity in Chicago Noir

by Jerome Ludwig September 10, 2015August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inBlogs

The essays in Tony Fitzpatrick’s Dime Stories are enlightening, funny as hell

by Jerome Ludwig July 10, 2015August 18, 2021

In this collection of Newcity columns, the artist-poet-writer renders strong opinions in lovely, frank prose.

Posted inBlogs

Chicago: City on the Make vs. Boss: Greatest Chicago Book Tournament, round two

by Jerome Ludwig January 26, 2015August 18, 2021

One of these literary heavyweights will have to defeat the other . . . by a nose.

Posted inBlogs

Sixteen fun facts about 16 cartoonists who changed the world

by Jerome Ludwig November 21, 2014August 18, 2021

Local illustrator/designer Monte Beauchamp has two excellent new books out for devotees of comics and pulps.

Posted inBlogs

Naked Girls Reading Literary Honors Award winner Patty Templeton on her debut novel

by Jerome Ludwig July 14, 2014August 18, 2021

The first-ever Naked Girls Reading Literary Honors Award winner presents her debut novel.

Posted inBest of Chicago

Best New Book by a Former Chicago Golden Gloves Champ

by Jerome Ludwig June 25, 2014August 18, 2021

When he describes an ass whoopin’, you know he knows what he’s talking about.

Posted inBlogs

In Bill Hillmann’s novel The Old Neighborhood, Edgewater is rife with violence and revenge

by Jerome Ludwig April 17, 2014August 18, 2021

Bill Hillmann’s novel tells the story of a young man’s struggle to survive amid a world of gangs and racism.

Posted inBlogs

In Bedrock Faith, there’s more than one way to terrorize a neighborhood

by Jerome Ludwig March 20, 2014August 18, 2021

Columbia College writing prof Eric Charles May’s debut novel is a suspenseful meditation on the good and evil inherent in everyone

Posted inBlogs

Here’s to dogged Chicago detective work

by Jerome Ludwig March 17, 2014August 18, 2021

To catch a thief, two years after the crime

Posted inBlogs

Who is the Krampus?

by Jerome Ludwig December 4, 2013August 19, 2021

All hail the devil of Christmas.

Posted inBlogs

Renee Rosen’s Dollface captures Prohibition-era Chicago in all of its flappery, gangstery glory

by Jerome Ludwig November 6, 2013August 19, 2021

And the author has multiple readings in the forthcoming days ahead.

Posted inBlogs

From countercultural childhood to creative writing instructor

by Jerome Ludwig October 16, 2013August 19, 2021

Kelly Daniels’s memoir chronicles a life following a most unusual upbringing

Posted inBlogs

Chikaming Country Club at 100

by Jerome Ludwig September 24, 2013August 19, 2021

A centennial history of the Lakeside, Michigan, country club

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