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Home » Kathleen Rooney

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Posted inArts & Culture

Kathleen Rooney’s love letter to pigeons

by Taylor Moore August 3, 2020August 18, 2021

The historical novel Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey gives the misunderstood creatures their due.

Posted inArts & Culture

25 local books to stock your shelves

by Reader staff July 21, 2020August 18, 2021

Add these new reads by and about Chicagoans to your list.

Posted inArts & Culture

Submarine kangaroos and space pirate birthday parties

by Justin C. Staley March 2, 2020August 18, 2021

An afternoon with Poems While You Wait

Posted inBlogs

Readers and writers rally to rescue Volumes Bookcafe

by Madeline Happold February 10, 2018August 18, 2021

The owners of the Wicker Park bookstore asked their friends to help them stay open.

Posted inArts & Culture

How a DePaul English professor became an art-history sleuth

by Janet Potter September 2, 2016August 18, 2021

Kathleen Rooney wondered why she couldn’t find an English translation of Magritte’s writings, so she figured out how to release one on her own.

Posted inArts & Culture

The politics of fiction in O, Democracy!

by Laura Pearson April 15, 2014August 18, 2021

Kathleen Rooney’s debut novel is rooted in her disillusioning experience as an aide to a senator from Illinois.

Posted inArts & Culture

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