Lit Top 5: October 2018
A handful of the many great events going on in October.
Crafting Pain into Poetry: Emily Jungmin Yoon discusses “A Cruelty Special to Our Species”
How to live and move forward with the pain of stories about Korean “comfort women” and other violence.
From Normal to Chicago: A Review of “Island in the City” by Micah McCrary
A young African-American man examines what it means to be black and middle class in an era where the class divide among blacks is ever-widening.
This is Chicago: A Review of “Black Queer Hoe” by Britteney Black Rose Kapri and “Citizen Illegal” by José Olivarez
Debut collections from Chicago voices.
The Poet and the Memoirist: Jessica Hopper and Jacob Saenz Look Ahead
Memoirist Jessica Hopper and poet Jacob Saenz discuss their new books and what they look forward to in fall.
Can’t-Miss Fall Literary Events with Chicago Writers
Lit events to look forward to as the leaves change and the temperatures drop.
Lit Top 5: September 2018
Poetry, fiction and workshops.
Safe With You: A Review of “The Wildlands” by Abby Geni
Geni is a masterful storyteller.
Be Less Afraid: Kim Brooks talks about “Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear”
The greatest cost of fear is the way it blots out everything it touches and drowns out the joys of parenthood.
Waiting for the Apocalypse: Ling Ma Discusses “Severance”
A satire about precarity, family, memory and survival.
