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Home » memoirs

Tag: memoirs

Posted inArts & Culture

Essential reading for Pride Month

by KT Hawbaker May 30, 2019August 18, 2021

Five memoirs that made me the pansexual freak I am today

Posted inBlogs

In Blackout, Sarah Hepola shines a light on alcoholism

by Aimee Levitt June 29, 2015August 18, 2021

Her new memoir is honest and refreshingly free of self-pity.

Lathrop Homes, one of the country's first public housing developments and the second in Chicago, was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
Posted inNews & Politics

The fight to preserve a model public housing project

by Maya Dukmasova June 12, 2014August 18, 2021

Lathrop Homes has long been one of CHA’s most diverse and successful properties. But today it’s a shell of its former self.

Posted inArts & Culture

Megan Stielstra taps into the anxieties of early adulthood in Once I Was Cool

by Aimee Levitt April 28, 2014August 18, 2021

Megan Stielstra taps into the anxieties of early adulthood in Once I Was Cool, the Columbia College teacher’s new collection of personal essays.

175 at Jennie Richee. Everything Is Allright Though Storm Continues
Posted inArts & Culture

Henry Darger, in the realms of the possibly real

by Sam Worley September 18, 2013August 19, 2021

Henry Darger, in the realms of the possibly real

Brandon Baltzley is a chef who's been as consumed with creation as with destruction.
Posted inFood & Drink

Who does Brandon Baltzley think he is?

by Sarah Nardi June 6, 2013August 19, 2021

Who does chef-memoirist-addict Brandon Baltzley think he is?

Michael Hainey
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Son of the Sun-Times

by Michael Miner February 6, 2013August 18, 2021

In a new memoir, journalist Michael Hainey explores the mystery of his father’s death.

Posted inBlogs

Kanye West Knows How George W. Bush Feels

by Lauri Apple November 3, 2010August 19, 2021

Kanye West is beating George W. Bush in the personal maturity contest of life.

Posted inNews & Politics

Reading: Ronald Reagan Remembers!

by Mike McGrath January 17, 1991August 20, 2021

A 726-page trip down Selective Memory Lane. I’ve read it so you won’t have to.

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