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Interview: Becky Siegel Spratford’s New Anthology Asks Horror Authors Why They Love Their Genre

Horror authors are often asked where they get all their wonderful, horrible ideas, but rarely why they get them. Librarian Becky Siegel Spratford wondered about this herself. Since 2007, she’s […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • October 30, 2025
    • Fiction , Lit , Reviews

    Review: Monsters Loom but Heart Prevails in Christina Henry’s Latest Release The Place Where They Buried Your Heart

    Christina Henry’s latest release, The Place Where They Buried Your Heart, is for more than just horror fans. It’s a story of redemption. The book is a David and Goliath […]

  • Caroline Huftalen
  • October 30, 2025
    • Dialogs , Events , Fiction , Lit , Live lit events

    Dialogs: Apers vs. Woo: Giano Cromley’s American Mythology Event at the Seminary Co-Op

    While author Giano Cromley currently lives on the Southside of Chicago and teaches as an English professor at Kennedy-King College, he was born in Montana and is a certified wildlife […]

  • Holly Smith
  • October 29, 2025
    • Dialogs , Events , Fiction , Lit , Live lit events , Writing

    Dialogs: Just an Emotion—Horror Writing and Religion at the American Writers Museum

    The American Writers Museum (AWM)’s exhibit American Prophets: Writers, Religion, and Culture will look “through the pages of American history to explore the influence of religion and spirituality on writers […]

  • Holly Smith
  • October 26, 2025
    • Chicago history , Children's books , Fiction , Lit , Suburbs and exurbs

    Review: Just Imagine: Leaf Town Forever, by Kathleen Rooney and Beth Rooney, Illustrated by Betsy Bowen

    The 8-year-old inside me perked up early in my reading of Leaf Town Forever when two friends are hired by Lucinda at the Treasure Shop to search for treasures, such […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • October 14, 2025
    • Children's books , Comics and Graphic Novels , Essays , Fiction , Lists , Lit , Nonfiction , Short Stories , Writing

    Banned Books Week: Writers Recall the “Forbidden” Books of Their Youth

    It’s Banned Books Week, and while it’s not a week to celebrate, per se, it’s one to faithfully observe. Those who would ban books offer different reasons for their desire […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • October 6, 2025
    • Chicago history , Children's books , Comics and Graphic Novels , Fantasy , Fiction , Front page , Interviews , Lists , Lit , Nonfiction

    Words of Survival: Chicago Bookstores Respond to COVID and Book Bans

    This is the third in our series of articles on The Art of Survival, in which we explore how small Chicago arts organizations are surviving post-COVID and weathering the anti-humanist and anti-diversity […]

  • Karin McKie
  • September 30, 2025
    • Fiction , Interviews , Lit , Live lit events

    Interview: Chapter and Multiverse: Christopher Hawkins’ I Contain Multitudes

    When I last spoke with author Christopher Hawkins, he was writing about monsters and a deadly rain that threatened to tear a house and family apart. More recently, Hawkins wrote […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • September 23, 2025
    • Fiction , Lit , Reviews , Stages

    Review: Comedy and Tragedy in Chicago’s Storefront Theater World—The Very Last Production of King Lear by Richard Engling

    Richard Engling is a Chicago theater guy—actor, director, artistic director. He’s taken his years of experience as the raw material for a trilogy of novels about life in Chicago storefront […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • August 25, 2025
    • Fiction , Lit , Reviews

    Review: Overblown and Overly Clever, Patchwork, by Tom Comitta

    General readers, beware! Tom Comitta’s new book Patchwork isn’t for you. Patchwork isn’t for someone who wants a novel that tells a story and has characters and settings and scenes. […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • August 14, 2025
    • Fiction , Lit , Romance

    Wide Open Doors: Bookstore Romance Day at The Last Chapter Book Shop

    On Saturday, August 9 and Sunday, August 10, Roscoe Village’s The Last Chapter Book Shop is celebrating Bookstore Romance Day. Amanda Anderson, the store’s owner and dedicated proponent for romance […]

  • Holly Smith
  • August 6, 2025
    • Fiction , Interviews , Lit , Nonfiction , Poetry , Short Stories , Writing , Zines

    Chicago Lit/Arts Zine The Ground Is Uneven Seeks Contributors

    When it came time to choose between literature and the law, Adam Kaz went with the written word. Now the writer, editor, and critic (and regular contributor to Third Coast […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • August 5, 2025
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