Tip of the Week
Elizabeth Hand and Matthew Sharpe
The one-two punch of Hand and Sharpe reading from their respective works should make for a fine evening of literary muscle
(2008-05-06)
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A New Kind of Body Farm
Mary Roach shifts from death to sex
Mary Roach’s 2003 book, "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Cadavers," left an unexpected mark on me, a recurring creep-out I have, midday, at least once a week
(2008-04-22)
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Comics Review
Chicago Splendor
Harvey Pekar’s now-legendary series "American Splendor" is back for a second run on the DC Vertigo line
(2008-04-15)
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Poetry Review
Your Enemies, Closer
"Some poems and pictures will live on," he wrote in his 2000 memoir, "Another Beauty": "But who will revive the moments and hours?" This has been the task Zagajewski set himself as a poet. "Eternal Enemies," his latest collection to be translated into English by Slavic language scholar Clare Cavanaugh, shows he is still one of the best in the world at it
(2008-04-08)
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Shelf Life
Judging Books Between the Covers
Publishers in North America churned out more than 200,000 books last year. That means in the time it takes you to read this piece, two or three new books will be published. If you pause in the middle to refill your coffee mug, another book will come off the presses. Go outside to let your dog pee and—look out!—one more book has been born
(2008-04-01)
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Fiction Review
Star Light, Star Bright
The worst thing about sequels is how so many borrow upon the brilliance of what came before without repaying the debt. So let me get this out of the way. Tony Earley’s new novel, "The Blue Star," is a very fine book, full of moments of humor and tenderness, prose so glassine you almost forget it is there. But it is a very different novel to "Jim the Boy," Earley’s 2001 novel about a 9-year-old growing up in 1930s in the shade of three kindly uncles, his widowed mother and the hills of North Carolina
(2008-03-25)
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Venn and the Art of Internet Blogging
Author Jessica Hagy gets her work "Indexed"
Some people say she’s genius, that she’s got something really special. "Maybe a gene?" asks Stephen Dubner, one of the authors of the bestseller, "Freakonomics." Most of her readers ponder how it is Jessica Hagy visually links ideas together in Venn diagrams, and other types of charts, in such a clever way
(2008-03-11)
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Tip of the Week
Richard Price
Price discusses his newest work, “Lush Life"
(2008-03-05)
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Tip of the Week
Neal Pollack
Some cringed at the idea of the author of "Never Mind the Pollacks" penning a parenting book, but it turned out "Alternadad" wasn’t so bad after all—actually, it was kind of charming
(2008-02-19)
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Get Lit
An inquiry into the current state of writing and drinking in Chicago
Virginia Woolf famously said that all one needed to write is a room of one’s own. For some people, this may be true, but for others, all they need is a drink and a seat in a quiet pub, like Wilde Bar. At the new Lakeview bar and restaurant, there are two full-sized Victorian bars and numerous hefty wooden tables throughout, but the focal point is undeniably its massive library
(2008-02-12)
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