What If Rene Magritte’s Dog(s) Could Write a Memoir?
Chicago’s own Kathleen Rooney on her hybrid novel, ‘The Listening Room.’
Category: Interviews
Jenny Odell Doesn’t Want Your Hot Take
A conversation with the author about “How to Do Nothing.”
Eliot Peper Imagines A Future Ruled By Social Media
Peper had a ‘hell of a lot of fun’ creating a ‘warning’ with ‘Borderless.’
Amelia Brunskill on the 5th Annual Chicago YA Book Festival
Amelia Brunskill’s debut novel, The Window, was published in 2018. The Window is the story of fifteen-year-old twin sisters, AnnaContinue Reading
Eva Hagberg Fisher on Lifesaving Friendships and the Art of Memoir
An interview with the author of ‘How To Be Loved.’
Halle Butler: “Sometimes It’s Good to Put Yourself Through the Wringer”
Her slim novel ‘The New Me’ is a cathartic look in the mirror.
At First, Etaf Rum’s Debut Novel “Felt Like a Very Shameful Thing to Do”
When I was in the middle of reading A Woman Is No Man, I had a conversation with a youngContinue Reading
After ‘Descent,’ Tim Johnston Wrote an Icy Midwestern Thriller
‘The Current’ is set in small-town Minnesota in the dead of winter.
Writing About the Beauty and Violence of Kashmir
A conversation with Feroz Rather, author of ‘The Night of Broken Glass.’
Before ‘The Library Book,’ Susan Orlean Thought She’d Never Write Another
“It was just too big of a commitment. It’s just too hard to write books.”
