Dialogs: Jill Lepore’s Book We the People Tells Us Why Our Constitution Needs an Overhaul
I like to think of Jill Lepore sitting down at her desk to plan her new book on the US Constitution. We don’t need just another history, she thinks. There […]
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 […]
Review: In the Carnival of Love: Monsters, Clowns, and the Holy Fool, by Satori
Review by Tori Rego. Since making their publishing debut in 2024, local independent arts magazine and press, Raging Opossum, has sought to distinguish itself through gathering emerging voices that share […]
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 […]
Dialogs: Young Readers and Lawn Lobsters—Kate McKinnon Discusses Secrets of the Purple Pearl at CHF
My afternoon at Illinois Tech’s Hermann Hall started off with a hearty welcome by speaker Kate McKinnon to young readers. She was sure to bring them into the realms of […]
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 […]
Interview: Poet Temperance Aghamohammadi and Her Debut Collection, Battalion Shaped Girl
Last fall, I had the pleasure of organizing a poetry reading with local poets on celebrating transformation, the unknown, and the changing of the seasons. It was then when I […]
Preview: Chicago Humanities Brings the Birria Home to Chicago
Although already sold out with a growing waitlist, two Chicago culinary icons, Chef Jesse Valenciana and Rick Bayless, will be in conversation Sunday, Sept. 21, at 11am at the National […]
Review: Let Us Re-Joyce: “Bloomsday in Chicago” Celebrates James Joyce’s Masterwork
Ulysses. The book Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company published in Paris in 1922. The book that was banned in the US and the UK. The book people either love or […]
Book Smarts: 57th Street Books: Stairs, Lore, and a Third Space
Book Smarts is a semi-regular feature in which Third Coast Review writers share their favorite Chicago-area bookstores. This month, Holly Smith explores Hyde Park’s 57th Street Books. Down the Stairs […]
Chicago Is Lit: Independent Bookstore Day and More Spring Events
For regular readers of this column, Saturday’s Independent Bookstore Day is likely as highly anticipated as the Super Bowl (if not more so). If you haven’t made your game day […]
Book Smarts: Secret World Books of Highland Park—Third Space for the North Shore
Capitalism abhors a creative gathering place—otherwise auto dealerships would put on poetry slams and hardware stores would host book clubs, wouldn’t they? While coffeehouses and restaurants often step up to […]