Pita Inn: A Suburban Pitstop With Show-Stopping Pita
When you grow up in the suburbs, there aren’t a lot of places to go. You may have earned your license after painfully sitting through hours after hours of driver’s […]
Celebrating Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks Thursday May 4th at The Poetry Foundation
“We Real Cool” By Gwendolyn Brooks The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel. We real cool. We Left School. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing gin. We […]
Chicago Literature’s Impact on You and Me at Volumes Bookcafe
Chicagoans are passionate fans. They like their hotdogs ketchup-less, beer craft, and if history tells us anything, their books soul wrenching. Often not talked about, Chicago has a rich history […]
Chicago’s Eight Best Baguettes
What constitutes a good baguette? Physically: crusty exterior, soft interior. Internally: flour, salt, yeast, and water. Simplicity is key. Yet, to separate the best from the great, there has to […]
Bookclub Pick: 47th Street Black, a Look into Chicago’s Painful Past
Mookie and J.C., two black boys from the South Side of Chicago, find the body of a notorious gangster in an alley. It’s the 1960s, and while heroin hasn’t yet […]
Review: Goat Days Will Leave You in a Daze
Najeeb’s childhood dream was to become a goatherd. His dream comes true, but in the form a nightmare. Benyamin’s Goat Days follows the twisted turns of Najeeb’s life. First published in […]
Review: Todd May’s A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe
Commuting from the suburbs into the city each day leaves a lot of time to think, read, and if I really want to torture the people around me, call friends […]
Review: Street Art and Gentrification are the Focus of Streetopia
Erick Lyle’s Streetopia hits shelves this month. The book is a collection of works from 24 San Francisco artists and writers associated with the “New Mission School” street art movement. […]
Open Books: Used Bookstore Benefits Community
Open Books‘ two stores in the West Loop and Pilsen are brightly decorated, and the shelves are filled with prose, poetry, and everything in between. You can find anything from […]