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Home » Spring Books

Tag: Spring Books

Posted inBlogs

Reviews of self-published books: Coming Out Can Be Murder

by Sam Worley April 9, 2012August 19, 2021

A review of Renee James’s Coming Out Can Be Murder

Posted inBlogs

It’s springtime for books on the Bleader

by Tal Rosenberg April 9, 2012August 19, 2021

This week’s Variations on a Theme: our annual Spring Books Issue

Illustration by Johnny Sampson, inspired by the late, great American illustrator Boris Artzybasheff's Machinalia series.
Posted inArts & Culture

Spring Books 2012: What’s a publisher to do?

by Reader staff April 5, 2012August 19, 2021

For the 2012 edition of spring books, the Reader explores modern bookmaking

Posted inArts & Culture

In their words: Rian Murphy, head of staff and sales, Drag City

by Kevin Warwick April 5, 2012August 19, 2021

Rian Murphy of Drag City on publishing books that are right for your imprint

Posted inArts & Culture

In their words: Mike Levine, acquisitions editor, Northwestern University Press

by Julia Thiel April 5, 2012August 19, 2021

Mike Levine of Northwestern University Press on how to deliver books to readers

Posted inArts & Culture

In their words: Doug Seibold, founder, Agate Publishing

by Elly Fishman April 5, 2012August 19, 2021

Doug Seibold, founder of Agate Publishing, on how it’s good to be a small publisher

Posted inArts & Culture

In their words: James O’Neill, Senior VP, marketing strategy, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

by Deanna Isaacs April 5, 2012August 19, 2021

James O’ Neill, Senior VP of marketing strategy at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, on how technology changes educational publishing

Posted inArts & Culture

In their words: Victor David Giron, publisher, editor in chief, publicist, and accountant, Curbside Splendor

by Jerome Ludwig April 5, 2012August 19, 2021

Victor David Giron of Curbside Splendor on the art of and behind book-making

Luis Alberto Urrea
Posted inArts & Culture

Finding Thomas McGuane

by Luis Alberto Urrea April 21, 2011August 19, 2021

Luis Alberto Urrea discovered a master in beat-up paperbacks.

Bayo Ojikutu
Posted inArts & Culture

The Bop-Bop-Bop and Be of Ball

by Bayo Ojikutu April 21, 2011August 19, 2021

John Edgar Wideman showed Bayo Ojikutu where the silences are.

Joe Meno
Posted inArts & Culture

Vonnegut’s Disciple

by Joe Meno April 21, 2011August 19, 2021

Slaughterhouse-Five gave Joe Meno a path to The Great Perhaps.

Achy Obejas
Posted inArts & Culture

Tag-along Apprentice

by Achy Obejas April 21, 2011August 19, 2021

Chicago poet David Hernández had a beat and Achy Obejas could dance to it.

Gina Frangello
Posted inArts & Culture

A Chelsea of One’s Own

by Gina Frangello April 21, 2011August 19, 2021

Patti Smith’s Just Kids helped Gina Frangello remember the instant symbiosis of young artists.

Posted inArts & Culture

Spring Books: Homages

by Tony Adler April 21, 2011August 19, 2021

Five Chicago novelists on the books and writers that inspired them.

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