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New Books from Chicago Authors in 2026 Part II
What I Made For Dinner, Krys Malcolm Belc
“Trash! A Garbageman’s Story” Tells Readers to Throw Away Polite Fictions
“Craft is How You Survive the Writing of the Thing”: A Conversation with Joseph Osmundson about “Spawning Season”
Hemmed in On the South Side: A Conversation with Amani C. Morrison about “A Kitchenette to Fit Your Needs: Housing Chicago’s Great Migration”
12 Must-Read Books of June 2026
The New Chicago Renaissance: Ben Austen on Alex Kotlowitz’s “An American Summer”
Finding Solace in a “Kafkaesque” World
Form is Function in Emily LaBarge’s “Dog Days”
Exhaustive Research Gets Exhausting in “Girls®: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything”