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Comic Relief: A Review of Samantha Irby’s wow, no thank you.

Samantha Irby's third essay collection offers comic relief for all her readers, not just middle aged women who assert their awkward hipness.

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Lit Top 5: May 2020

Author talks and readings for May.

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What Kind of Dark: An Interview with Krista Franklin

As a visual artist, poet and teaching artist, Ohio native Krista Franklin has made her mark on the city of Chicago and beyond.

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Wells Rings Resonant Over One Hundred Years Later: A Review of the New...

With the recent naming of Ida B. Wells Street in Chicago, it is a welcome time to see a second edition of Wells' autobiography.

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A Gothic Debut: A Review of Sam Weller’s Dark Black

Debut is a weird word. It feels wrong to use the word on the work of a winner of numerous awards and is most famous for his work related to Ray Bradbury.

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On the Streets of Chicago: A Conversation with Tracy Clark about her...

"Cass thinks like a cop, walks like a cop… She is legitimate."

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The Conversation: Novelist Joe Meno Discusses his Nonfiction Debut Between...

Meno's new book offers a journalistic rendering of the story of two Ghanaian refugees through their impossible paths to asylum.

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A Place of Safety: A Review of Rita Woods’ Remembrance

Remembrance is a story of the remarkable strength, determination and magic involved in the survival of black women under the conditions of slavery.

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Without Pretense or Throne: A Review of Peter Kahn’s Little Kings

Kahn has carved out his place as a beloved educator in the Chicago area by mentoring and teaching young poets.

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Six Feet Tall: Sara Paretsky Talks Love and Other Crimes

Writing in a time when women mystery writers were not common, Paretsky created Sisters in Crime, a worldwide organization to support women crime writers.

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Witnessing a LatiNEXT Moment: A Review of The BreakBeat Poets Volume. 4:...

This volume comes at a time when we are all searching for new words, grappling with the realization that English doesn’t feel good enough to express or even explain.

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Writer of the Moment 2020: Maya Schenwar

Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law's "Prison By Any Other Name" questions the inefficacies of the scant alternatives of prisons.

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Lit 50: Who Really Books In Chicago 2020

This year, we focus on writers who contribute to the growing body of American letters and critical thought across genres.

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One Recommendation: August 2020

In lieu of the regularly scheduled events we are sharing six books due for August 2020 release.

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A Jolt in the Gut: An Interview with Xandria Phillips

Xandria Phillips is a poet, educator, visual artist and an extremely generous mentor.

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Losing a Mother: A Review of Natasha Trethewey’s Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s...

After Natasha Trethewey's widely celebrated poetry collections and her first nonfiction book "Beyond Katrina," "Memorial Drive" documents that difficult terrain of losing her mother, who was brutally...

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Lit Top 5: September 2020

Readings and discussions to kickoff the fall season.

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An Abiding Seriousness: A Review of American Gun: A Poem by 100 Chicagoans

This collection is as much an experiment in communal response as it is a poem.

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Opening Into The World: An Interview with Rachel Swearingen

Rachel Swearingen's debut short story collection "How to Walk on Water" is a slim collection of nine stories that approaches its characters with a matter of fact sensibility. Swearingen, a professor at...

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A Chicago Detective Story : A Review of Danny Gardner’s Ace Boon Coon

"Ace Boon Coon," Danny Gardner’s second book in "The Tales of Elliot Caprice" series, is a detective novel is set in 1950s Chicagoland, containing all the elements of a satisfying noir. 

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