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 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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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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The Greatest Ever Chicago Book Tournament is down to the Final Four
Now it’s getting serious.
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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.