Friday, January 29th, 2010
When a writer takes inspiration from something like the Donner Party, that ill-fated gold rush-era westward trek that was blockaded by a snowstormed...
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The Associated Press reports that J.D. Salinger has died at age 91. If you weren't sure that he was still living, then Salinger was effective at...
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Prose. Poems. A Novel. Jamie Iredell Orange Alert Press $14 Any time I read a book that experiments with form I’m both excited and skeptical: Is...
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You've probably seen issues of The Common Review in literary dens in Chicago. Though it's distributed in over 300 bookstores nationwide, The Review's...
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The Great Books Foundation wants to get you talking books. In the past few years, the Chicago-based nonprofit educational organization has raised its...
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The Chicago Tribune's book section, Printers Row, is hosting a cocktail reception "to celebrate the continued success and support of the...
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The 2nd Hand, a broadsheet and literary menagerie founded in Chicago, has launched a regular reading series at Quimby's. The venerable indie stalwart...
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It’s been a breakout year since Nami Mun’s debut novel, Miles Form Nowhere, was released at the onset of 2009. Since then, she was one of...
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The performance reading series that hosted a legendary literary smackdown at The Metro to cap its inaugural year is gearing up for its second-annual...
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