Books, poetry, comics and the literary world of Chicago
Unrighteous indignation and an inability to hear himself mark every page of this book, which at times sounds less like a memoir than one of those rambling farewell messages discovered too late on the mass shooter’s computer.
This Nelson Algren Award-winning author’s thrilling debut novel about killing, disease and racism is both eager and skeptical of the concept of redemption and provides an excellent interrogation of it.
Half pictorial guide to many cities’ transit systems, half history of how these cities have grown or fallen to their present networks, the book is a story of twentieth-century America, the rise and fall of the trains and their replacement by cars.
One last month for diverse voices and serious work before the holidays take over.
Bring an essayistic style to the short story form, author Garnett Kilberg Cohen presents twelve delightful stories in the collection “Cravings” as an ever-vital form of discovery on the “rare moments we live.”
This urban colossus, with the highest retail rents in the land, is chock-full of one-of-a-kind mom-and-pop shops, many of which are generations old. This husband-and-wife duo of professional architectural and interior photographers have now published three different books on the subject of the mom-and-pop.
This new book by Chicago playwright Crider is the kind that drops you into the Middle Ages like a stone into a lake. But “Kells” is not just about the past. It’s about the life-giving power of art, created despite all the world’s dangers.
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