Witnessing a LatiNEXT Moment: A Review of The BreakBeat Poets Volume. 4: LatiNext
This volume comes at a time when we are all searching for new words, grappling with the realization that English doesn’t feel good enough to express or even explain.
True Crime Stories: A Review of Harold Schechter’s Ripped From the Headlines!
Before the internet and cable television became popular, movies fed the public’s voyeuristic desire for true crime’s inside information and judicial resolution.
One Recommendation: July 2020
A short list of books speaking to readers who experience racism.
Six Feet Tall: Sara Paretsky Talks Love and Other Crimes
Writing in a time when women mystery writers were not common, Paretsky created Sisters in Crime, a worldwide organization to support women crime writers.
Without Pretense or Throne: A Review of Peter Kahn’s Little Kings
Kahn has carved out his place as a beloved educator in the Chicago area by mentoring and teaching young poets.
A Sense of Peace: A Review of Juditha Dowd’s Audubon’s Sparrow: A Biography-in-Poems
Juditha Dowd reimagines the love affair and marriage between Lucy Bakewell and ornithologist John James Audubon.
Churchill’s Darling Clementine: A Review of Marie Benedict’s Lady Clementine
The old saying that behind every great man stands a woman should be modified to say a determined, clever, ingenious woman.
A Place of Safety: A Review of Rita Woods’ Remembrance
Remembrance is a story of the remarkable strength, determination and magic involved in the survival of black women under the conditions of slavery.
The Conversation: Novelist Joe Meno Discusses his Nonfiction Debut Between Everything and Nothing
Meno’s new book offers a journalistic rendering of the story of two Ghanaian refugees through their impossible paths to asylum.
On the Streets of Chicago: A Conversation with Tracy Clark about her Award-Winning Cass Raines Series
“Cass thinks like a cop, walks like a cop… She is legitimate.”
