“A writer of nonfiction discovers their own authority by telling. The good essays tell. They pronounce. They manifesto. They ask and wonder and feint and layer.” So proclaims author Sonya Huber, in a few-years-old article for LitHub, about unlearning long-accepted rules of writing. Huber puts these proclamations into action in her forthcoming essay collection, Love […]
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The Girls shows Chicago, warts and all
What can a book about three generations of unmarried women in Chicago, set between the Civil War and World War I, originally published over 100 years ago and now out in a new edition by Belt Publishing, have to say to a contemporary resident of our city? Quite a bit, as it turns out. Its […]
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Cookies keep you healthy, soup makes you sane
Two books about cooking and community from Belt Publishing
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There’s more to trauma than meets the eye in This City is Killing Me
Jonathan Foiles’s new book explores how systematic forces contribute to mental health issues in Chicago.
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Meet Resurrection Mary, the ghost of Archer Avenue
Chet’s Melody Lounge still pours a Bloody Mary for her every Sunday.
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What does it mean to be midwestern?
Belt Publishing releases two new books that examine the language of the middle of the country.