Epiphany and Enlightenment: Amina Gautier Discusses “The Loss of All Lost...
By Christine Sneed Fiction writer and former DePaul English Department faculty member Amina Gautier recently published her third book, “The Loss of All Lost Things,” winner of the Elixir Press Award in...
View ArticlePoetry Review: “Flammable Matter” by Jacob Victorine
RECOMMENDED In his first collection, Jacob Victorine writes devastating poems about humans burning. Winner of Elixir Press’ Editor’s Award, “Flammable Matter” memorializes victims—named and unnamed—of...
View ArticleAn Opportunity to Just Write: Cave Canem Fellow Puts “Poetry First, Always”
For Chicago poet Keith S. Wilson, receiving the Cave Canem fellowship allows him time to write about difficult subjects without distraction. “I’m working on a long piece considering the history of...
View ArticleUnder Chicago’s Shiny Facade: Natalie Moore Discusses “The South Side”
By Toni Nealie If you ride a bus from the Magnificent Mile south along Michigan Avenue, or take the Green Line west, a cityscape of glossy buildings and lush planters changes to one of boarded windows...
View ArticleLive Lit: Reading Under the Influence
Halfway into round three of trivia, a race had formed in the packed back room of Sheffield’s. Everyone in the audience technically had a point after they unanimously shouted an answer, but two in the...
View ArticleFiction Review: “Getting Right” by Gary D. Wilson
RECOMMENDED This family saga, Gary D. Wilson’s second novel, centers around three middle-aged siblings from Kansas. In “Getting Right,” the youngest, Connie, develops terminal lung cancer. She requests...
View ArticleThe Journey, the Perceptions and the Fakery of Nostalgia: Discussing “The...
By Amy Danzer This month, Newcity’s literary editor Toni Nealie releases her debut collection of lyrical essays, entitled “The Miles Between Me.” The essays investigate family mythologies from India...
View ArticleFiction Review: “Papi” by Rita Indiana, translated by Achy Obejas
RECOMMENDED Rita Indiana’s novel, “Papi,” translated by Achy Obejas, is entering the American literary scene at a ripe moment for fiction in translation. A famously cited statistic says that only three...
View ArticlePoetry Review: “Who’s Afraid of Helen of Troy” by David Lazar
RECOMMENDED If you are smart and you like to have a chuckle while you read, then please do yourself a favor and don’t read David Lazar’s clever new book “Who’s Afraid of Helen of Troy: An Essay on...
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