When Sandra Cisneros talked about romance, writing, and faith over Zoom from her bright home in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, she discussed her own poetry but also referred to Peanuts. In the strip Lucy complains about not finding love while ignoring Snoopy’s embrace. Almost on cue, Cisneros then got a face lick from Nahui […]
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Sandra Cisneros comes home
In her new memoir, A House of My Own, the 60-year-old author recounts more than 30 years’ worth of personal stories about the places she’s lived and the writing they inspired.
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Sandra Cisneros lets her guard down in the memoir A House of My Own
Though The House on Mango Street is classified as fiction, it’s also a sideways glimpse into author Sandra Cisneros’s Chicago childhood. Cisneros based much of the book on her experiences growing up on Campbell Street in Humboldt Park. More than three decades after Mango Street was published, we get another look at Cisneros’s life in […]
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The five more stars at this year’s Fifth Star Awards include Sandra Cisneros, Steppenwolf, and old lion Stanley Tigerman
Produced by the city Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, this free program celebrating the city’s creativity is Chicago’s version of the Kennedy Center Awards. Like last year’s rousing inaugural event, it will honor five stalwarts of the local arts scene, selected by DCASE and members of the mayor’s Cultural Advisory Council. The 2015 […]
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Here are 28 books we can’t wait to read in 2015
New stuff to read from Sandra Cisneros, Harper Lee, Elizabeth Gilbert, Patti Smith, and more.
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What is the Greatest Ever Chicago Book?
Studs Terkel’s Working takes on Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns in the Reader tournament’s championship bout.
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Working vs. The House on Mango Street: Greatest Chicago Book Tournament, final four
Which of these two titles will advance to the final round?
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I Sailed With Magellan vs. The House on Mango Street: Greatest Chicago Book tournament, round two
The last bout of round two features two semiautobiographical story collections by two poets-turned-fiction-writers about growing up in changing Chicago neighborhoods.
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So what is a great Chicago book anyway?
Some more thoughts about greatness and Chicago-ness at our tournament’s halfway point.
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The House on Mango Street vs. The Book of My Lives: Greatest Chicago Book Tournament, round one
In the final bout of round one, our judge discovers her preconceptions of the two contenders are not entirely accurate.