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Tag: books
Walking in a holi-daze
Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
Mapping out a reader’s delight
Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
The Chicago Independent Bookstore Map
Chicago has been frequently touted as a writer’s town; a place where writers can work on their craft and thrive. Of course writers are nothing without an audience to read them, and the bevy of bookstores in Chicagoland is one indication that we’re also a reader’s town—not just a place where people make books, but […]
The Beauty of Your Face isn’t afraid to get ugly
In Sahar Mustafah’s debut novel, The Beauty of Your Face, a terrorist attack opens a window on the story of a Palestinian American family in Chicago.
We’ve brought together twenty of Leor Galil’s best music features from the past ten years in one book
Best of Chicago Reader, Volume 1
Covert
On being a mother, the apocalypse of the interior life, and sheltering in place on the other side of Lake Michigan.
Eye 94 opens readers’ ears
Lumpen hosts the only terrestrial radio show in the midwest devoted to books and authors.
Making All Black Lives Matter: Barbara Ransby talks politics and protesting in 2018
At a book talk Tuesday at the SEIU Healthcare headquarters in Pilsen, Barbara Ransby discussed her book Making All Black Lives Matter.
Andrew Smith throws Jungle Green’s homemade songs at a bigger wall—will they stick?
Chicago singer-songwriter Andrew Smith has promoted Jungle Green’s homemade songs mostly by sending them to people who reply to flyers he’s taped to lampposts. Fortunately he’s also made some well-connected fans.
Books we can’t wait to read in 2018
Bill Clinton has written a thriller about a missing president! And nearly 100 other ways to escape the oncoming shit show.