The Double Bind: Writing Historical Fiction As a Black Woman
Bethany Morrow explains why she “omitted whiteness” from her debut novel ‘MEM.’
Category: Features
The Best New Books of May 2018
If you don’t already have plans for May 8, save the date for a trip to the bookstore. No lessContinue Reading
How Do Poets Choose A Collection Opener?
Sarah Blake asked four poets about the first poems in their collections.
Chaun Webster’s Map of North Minneapolis
A review of ‘GeNtry!fication: or The Scene of the Crime’
Now Available: A New Edition of ‘The Cliff-Dwellers’
We launched a small press to bring classic Chicago literature back into print.
Celeste Ng Wants You to Buy A Lot of Books This Weekend
Saturday, April 28 is Independent Bookstore Day.
Exclusive Cover Reveal: Abby Geni’s ‘The Wildlands’
The Chicago author’s follow-up to ‘The Lightkeepers’ is out September 4.
Why Narrating My Memoir Was Even More Difficult Than Writing It
Hannah Howard on recording the audiobook for ‘Feast: True Love in and Out of the Kitchen.’
Denice Frohman on “A Woman’s Place”
With contributions from 41 poets, Women of Resistance: Poems of a New Feminism moves across race, age, gender identity, class, sexuality,Continue Reading
The Best New Books of April 2018
I always try to narrow these monthly lists down to a manageable number (10 is the sweet spot, in myContinue Reading
