Not many TV shows have four exclamation points in their titles, but for Tom Seymour’s web-based comic review series “Bif! Bam! Pow! Wow!” at OnNetworks.com, the punctuation is apt. Through quick five-to-eight-minute episodes, Seymour—who manages Lincoln Park’s Graham Crackers comic book store—enlightens his audiences on what’s underrated, what’s overrated and what they totally need to keep out of the “Iron Man” movie. “I suppose the bulk of it is me ranting about stuff, but we try to have at least one guest interview,” Seymour says, who has welcomed graphic novelist Jeffrey Brown and Marvel artist Scottie Young to the show. “It’s better than working in an office building for me personally,” he says of his job. “I couldn’t really see myself doing anything else. I’m not really qualified for anything else.”
We Can’t Delay Our Joy: An Interview with Roger Reeves About His New Book, “Dark Days: Fugitive Essays” Reeves has a shelf full of honors, but his new book, “Dark Days,” is not poetry, but essays. In rich and heady prose, Reeves mixes memoir, theory and literary criticism. His subjects range from an opera singer breaking a silence curfew by singing in the streets to the “hush harbors,” where enslaved people would steal away to pray.
Lit 50 2023: Who Really Books In Chicago Our role in the world seems increasingly ephemeral, which is why so many of us take refuge in the endurability of words on paper, whether in novels, poems, essays or biographies. And Chicago's role in the world of literature has never been stronger.
