Wednesday, June 17, 2020
By Donald G. Evans
Joe Meno quietly, relentless produces literature of dazzling variety and ferocity. Big, important novels. Serial comic strips. Anthologies. Pop culture explorations. Experimental stories. Plays. Even a musical. He often—I’m not kidding, often—gets compared to the likes of William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy, sometimes he even winds up in the same breath as Toni Morrison. Joe Meno started publishing at a high…
Thursday, May 28, 2020
By Donald G. Evans
When you hear the phrase, “How the sausage is made,” it’s usually in the vicinity of another phrase: “You don’t want to know.” The insinuation is that it’s messy, unsanitary, and the organs that get ground together would appall us.
With books, it’s the opposite: we do, exactly, want to know. Jim Garner is spearheading Inside For Indies, a video…
Friday, May 1, 2020
Literary prizes mean something only when they come from a place of absolute integrity. The Pulitzer Prize started to mean something 70 years ago today when Gwendolyn Brooks became the first Black author to capture the prize. This was 1950 and the collection was Annie Allen. It catapulted Brooks into the upper stratospheres of important poets and helped…
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
By Donald G. Evans
It’s HARD to make a living selling books. The behemoth companies like Amazon do what they do based on volume, millions and millions and millions of little profits that add up to a lot. It’s a nameless, faceless, bottom-line approach that results, for us, in cheaper books but almost nothing else.
Luckily, Chicago doesn’t need Amazon. We have The Book…
Friday, April 24, 2020
Herman “Hache” (H.G.) Carrillo lived and worked throughout the eighties and nineties in Chicago. His multiply-awarded, thematically ambitious and linguistically inventive novel Loosing My Espanish, published in 2004 (Pantheon Books), is pinioned in a Chicago Cuban-American community. His years of AIDS activism in our city (a disease to which he lost his beloved partner that was also a subject of…
Thursday, April 16, 2020
The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s 2019 class is now official, and Gene Wolfe, Frank London Brown, Carlos Cortez, and Jeannette Howard Foster have been selected to join the ranks of our city’s finest writers. This will be the 10th CLHOF class. The induction ceremony is set to take place at City Lit Theater on Thursday,…
Thursday, April 2, 2020
By Allison Manley
The Chicago literary community thrives on its independent bookstores. At independent bookstores, you can attend readings and events featuring Chicago authors as well as authors from around the world. You can meet other book lovers and make lifelong friends. You can discover your new favorite books.
If you’re like us and you want to support these institutions despite our homebound…
Monday, March 23, 2020
By Donald G. Evans
Chicago’s literary community stands as one of the most productive and supportive in the entire world, and they prove it each and every day, including and maybe most importantly during times of crisis. Here is quick rundown of a few initiatives I’ve stumbled across as I join you all in a period of staying productive while staying put. Send me…
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
What: CLHOF's 5th Annual Induction Ceremony
When: Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014, 7–9 p.m.
Where: Roosevelt University's Ganz Hall, 430 S. Michigan Ave., 7th Floor
How: Register to Ensure Your Seating
Thursday, April 3, 2014
The official list is now complete: a total of 42 authors, including 12 first-timers, will be considered for induction later this year. Top candidates for the Class of 2014 include Edgar Lee Masters, Shel
Shel Silverstein
Silverstein and David Hernandez, all of whom were named on three separate ballots. Margaret Anderson and Floyd Dell were named on two ballots each. Other candidates, such as Edgar…
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