Black cartoonists from Chicago are featured in a new book and included in a new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
Tag: National Book Award
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With the arrival of US Artists, Chicago becomes home to still more ‘genius’ grants
The arts nonprofit, which awards dozens of $50,000 fellowships yearly, joins the MacArthur Foundation in what’s becoming a hub of the ‘prestige economy.’
Posted inArts & Culture
Patti Smith discusses art, remembrance, and detective shows
Before Patti Smith comes to town, she talks with the Reader about art, remembrance, and detective shows.
Posted inArts & Culture
John Darnielle masters unreality with Wolf in White Van
Mountain Goats singer John Darnielle’s first full-length novel, Wolf in White Van, deserves its place on the National Book Awards long list.
Posted inArts & Culture
Family secrets fill Julia Glass’s And the Dark Sacred Night
As a successor to the National Book Award-winning Three Junes, Julia Glass’s And the Dark Sacred Night is just good enough.
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Who’s to blame for violence against Native women?
In The Round House, Louise Erdrich assigns easy blame for a tough problem.
Posted inBlogs
On Robert Caro, LBJ, Clinton, editors, and deadlines
I have a personal reason for appreciating Robert Caro
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Patti Smith’s Memoir Nominated for a National Book Award
Smith got the nod in the nonfiction category for her recent book, Just Kids (Ecco), a remarkable memoir of her life in New York with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the late 60s and 70s. As Miles Raymer noted in a post last week, Smith will be in Chicago (her birthplace) on November 30 to speak […]
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Bonnie Jo Campbell at Story Week Festival of Writers
Bonnie Jo Campbell at Columbia College’s Story Week Festival of Writers
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Josha Ferris, The Unnamed
Joshua Ferris’s new book The Unnamed is a bit of a disappointment.
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Bonnie Jo Campbell, National Book Award finalist in fiction
Kalamazoo-based writer Bonnie Jo Campbell, subject of a Reader profile back in 2000, has been nominated for a National Book Award.
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Patricia Smith (remember her?) nominated for a National Book Award
Fallen journalist Patricia Smith is a National Book Award finalist for poetry.