What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
Tag: novels
Posted inBlogs
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.
Posted inBest of Chicago
Best New Book by a Former Chicago Golden Gloves Champ
When he describes an ass whoopin’, you know he knows what he’s talking about.
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Your summer reading: The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
Susan Jane Gilman’s new novel is good company on long, stinky el rides.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Impending death is not necessarily a negative development
In getting a new liver, I consider myself fortunate in one small respect in addition to the obvious big one.
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.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Book of Unknown Americans features a pair of powerhouse immigrant oral histories
Cristina Henríquez crafts a powerhouse pair of immigrant oral histories in her novel The Book of Unknown Americans.
Posted inArts & Culture
The politics of fiction in O, Democracy!
Kathleen Rooney’s debut novel is rooted in her disillusioning experience as an aide to a senator from Illinois.
Posted inArts & Culture
What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival 2013
What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival: Robots, pigs, Bambi, and more
Posted inArts & Culture
The Reader’s guide to the Printers Row Lit Fest
Reader critics’ picks: Judy Blume, Art Spiegelman, D.T. Max, Haki Madhubuti, and more
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Susan Nussbaum’s next act
Celebrated playwright and disability rights activist Susan Nussbaum adds a novel, Good Kings Bad Kings, to her body of work.
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The art of disability on display at Bodies of Work
The Bodies of Work Festival puts people with disabilities on the stage, on the screen, behind the mike, and in the audience.
Posted inArts & Culture
From Averill to Zeus: A local lit roundup
From Averill to Zeus: A local lit roundup
Posted inArts & Culture
Who’s to blame for violence against Native women?
In The Round House, Louise Erdrich assigns easy blame for a tough problem.