Books & Readings
10 months
ago
How Eve Ewing Deconstructed a CPS Tragedy
The sociologist and poet publishes a postmortem on the 2013 public school closings.
11 months
ago
A New Book Festival Is Coming to Bridgeport
It’s run by two of Chicago’s most esteemed booksellers, and it debuts this weekend.
11 months
ago
Jessica Hopper Recalls When Rent Was $250 in Wicker Park
The music critic’s new memoir Night Moves documents her years as a developing writer in mid-aughts Chicago.
11 months
ago
Rebecca Makkai Will Change the Way You See Boystown
The author of The Great Believers on the AIDS epidemic and Chicago’s “Lost Generation.”
1 year
ago
Kim Brooks Is an Unhelicopter Mom
The author discusses Small Animals, “a parenting book for people who would never read a parenting book.”
1 year
ago
The Chicago Poetry Block Party Is a Can’t-Miss Literary Event
Poets Nate Marshall and Eve Ewing tease details of the bash, happening Saturday in Austin.
1 year
ago
A New Press. For Old Books. In the Digital Age. Seriously.
The publication kicks off its newly minted press with Henry Blake Fuller’s The Cliff-Dwellers.
1 year
ago
10 New Books for Your Summer Reading List
Break out the hammock and relax with a book about the craft beer revolution, Rebecca Makkai’s Boystown novel, Kim Brooks’s non-fiction examination of parenthood and fear in America, and more.
1 year
ago
Meet Chicago’s First National Youth Poet Laureate
“I cried,” says the Columbia College sophomore. “And then I gave a really bad speech.”
1 year
ago
