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nicolagriffith · 2 years

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Two interviews and a review

Back from #OILF to find two new interviews and a fantastic long and juicy review of Spear, which explains why the book is a "heady and healing draught."

I’m back from a lovely week on Orcas island (if ever you get the chance to visit the Orcas Island LitFest you should) to find two new interviews and an absolutely stunning review of Spear. Podcasts One is with Locus. It’s my third interview with the magazine and this time I was talking to Gary Wolfe and Liza Trombi while attending ICFA in Orlando. Locus interviews are interesting in that they…

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#ancillary review #beyond the trope #chicago review of books #coode street #historical novel review #intermultiversal #interviews #locus #new york times book review #OILF #ploughshares #podcast #reviews #salon futura #Spear #strange horizons #turn the page #x-ray vision

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ianmacallen · 1 year

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At Chicago Review of Books, I looked at Katherine Heiny's new short story collection, "Games and Rituals."

#Book review #Katherine Heiny #Games and Rituals #Chicago Review of Books

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whilereadingandwalking · 6 months

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Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz is a simply superb book about the city of Chicago, about its character, its essence. He talks about the lives and stories of many of the people he’s come to know over the years, across the city, and in doing so, captures a city. His writing skill is truly unparalleled—I’ll come back to this one again and again. A love letter to this place and all its contradictions.

#never a city so real #alex kotlowitz #bookworm #nonfiction #chicago #my book reviews

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garadinervi · 2 years

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Seiichi Niikuni, rain, The «Chicago Review», Volume 19, No. 4, 'Anthology of Concretism', Edited by Eugene Wildman, Chicago, IL, September 1967 (pdf here) [Monoskop]

#graphic design #art #poetry #concrete poetry #visual poetry #visual writing #book #magazine #chicago review #seiichi niikuni #eugene wildman #monoskop #1960s

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anthonyopal · 7 months

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“Since I’m throwing down fantasies, I’ll say my dream for these worthy artifacts is that they would be given as surprise parting gifts to friends who are about to head out to the airport.”

Read the full review by Anthony Madrid, “On Anthony Opal’s Chapbook Series of Translations from the Japanese,” at Fence Digital’s Constant Critic.

#poetry #poems and poetry #haiku #review #anthony madrid #anthony opal #translation #english #japanese #small press #fence #chicago #chapbooks #books #the economy press

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willwriteforboots · 11 months

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Book Review: "Consumed" by J.R. Ward

Between finding out I’m going to be an aunt again (yay!), Mother’s Day celebrations, and traveling to a destination wedding in the mountains of Virginia, I haven’t had much in the way of free weekends. my personal life has been a little crazy However, I’m finally getting my review of the fifteenth book of my reading challenge. We’re tackling another firefighter-themed read with the romantic…

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#book challenge #book review #bookish #books #books I love #Chicago Fire #Consumed #firefighter romance #firefighters #J.R. Ward #reader #reading #reading challenge #Recommended Reads #review #romance books

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authorunpublished · 1 year

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Book Review: The Chicago Guide To Copyediting Fiction

Title: The Chicago Guide To Copyediting Fiction Author: Amy J. Schneider Genre: Nonfiction, Editing, Writing Rating: 5 Stars Description/Synopsis: Although The Chicago Manual of Style is widely used by writers and editors of all stripes, it is primarily concerned with nonfiction, a fact long lamented by the fiction community. In this long-awaited book from the publisher of the Manual, Amy J.…

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#amy j. schneider #author #authorunpublished #book #chicago #copyediting #editing #fiction #guide #nonfiction #review #unpublished #writing

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carlocarrasco · 1 year

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A Look Back at Backlash #3 (1994)

Disclaimer: This is my original work with details sourced from reading the comic book and doing personal research. Anyone who wants to use this article, in part or in whole, needs to secure first my permission and agree to cite me as the source and author. Let it be known that any unauthorized use of this article will constrain the author to pursue the remedies under R.A. No. 8293, the Revised…

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o-the-mts · 10 days

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Book Review: Nature's Metropolis by William Cronon

Author: William Cronon Title: Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West Publication Info: New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1991 Summary/Review: Nature’s Metropolis by William Cronon presents a comprehensive analysis of Chicago’s development during the 19th century, emphasizing its pivotal role as a Gateway City to the Great West. Cronon explores how Chicago’s strategic location at…

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#19th Century #Book Reviews #Books #Chicago #Ecology #History

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flaviathebibliophile · 27 days

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Forgotten Sisters by Cynthia Pelayo (ARC Review)

Title: Forgotten Sisters Author: Cynthia Pelayo Type: Fiction Genre: Adult, Horror, Urban Fantasy, Mystery Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: March 19, 2024 A complimentary physical copy of this book was kindly provided by Kaye Publicity, Inc. and Thomas & Mercer in exchange for an honest review. Sisters Anna and Jennie live in a historic bungalow on the Chicago River. They’re tethered to a…

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meltotheany · 2 months

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hello friends! i am actually writing this wrap up as my trip to chicago is wrapping up as well! truly, this month was a very good month! not only did i finally get all my yearly medical check ups done (after not doing them for many years because of the pandemic), but i was able to travel back to the east coast for the first time in a little while (also because of the pandemic >.< but anyways)! i am notoriously a bad reader while on vacations, but i was also a bad reader while traveling for this trip because i got a brand new episode of d20 (fantasy high junior year) each plane ride! but i was still able to read six things before i left at the end of the month! while putting this wrap up together i realized that i actually wrote full reviews for four of the six books i read in february! i know i’ve been saying this for over a year now, but i still don’t want to put pressure on myself with reviewing, but this makes me really happy and makes me think i could be truly getting back to where i want to be with book community things! ✨ ✨ The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden ⭐⭐⭐⭐ “It was so much easier to hate a man than a system: vast, inhuman, bloodstained.” i was able to have the opportunity to buddy read this with katherine arden (and a bunch of amazing booksellers and book content creators!) and the amount of research and respect and heart that she put into this novel is so very felt, but i really was lucky enough to experience that so much deeper. i was speechless at how much she knew and how much she dug deeper to learn so many personal stories of families during this time. it allowed me to have an even deeper level of empathy and just taught me so much in regard to understanding what life was really like during this time period all around the world. and i am still speechless that i was about to buddy read this book with one of my favorite authors of all time! ❤️ full review, with trigger and content warnings, on the blog HERE ✨ House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City, #3) by Sarah J. Maas ⭐⭐⭐1.) House of Earth and Blood ★★★2.) House of Sky and Breath ★★★ i had a good time reading this. I really loved lidia and ruhn’s storylines and they really made the entire book for me. I am also still so very in love with hypaxia, and the things i would do to get her pov. speaking of, I felt a little bored at some povs in hofas – mostly ithian and tharion (i am so sorry to these men, i love them and feel so much empathy for them, but it is true). and bryce’s pov made me feel a range of emotions, that’s for sure, but most of the time it wasn’t the best emotions. ultimately, i think there were too many povs in this book and sometimes the switching between them felt very jarring and unbalanced. i also feel like there was just so much going on, which valid, but instead of it being information that we started to learn in the first two books, it felt like sjm was kind of just throwing out every plot she could think up. and i think this all made the pacing of this book a bit weird feeling. but i did love that baldur’s gate unexpected cursed dot storyline a lot. ❤️ full review, with a spoiler section and trigger and content warnings, on the blog HERE ✨ Faebound (Faebound, #1) by Saara El-Arifi ⭐⭐⭐ this is such a hard book to rate and review, because i truly loved so much of it. the characters, the set up, the setting, the messages and themes, even the writing was so perfect for me. But the plot of this? oh, friends, i was just unable to be captivated by it. i really found myself a bit bored while reading, and while waiting for these things i loved to make a plot that i equally loved, but sadly it just never happened. this is a story about two elven sisters, one blessed with battle and one blessed with prophecy, and their journey discovering that the fae are real when they are banished from their elven homeland. we get to see the underground world of the fae, their bonded animal companions, a really cool tree of souls, and the different magic...

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#Book Blog #Book Blogger #Book Review #Book Reviewer #chicago #february 2024 #magiccon #meltotheany #traveling #Wrap Up

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nicolagriffith · 2 years

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Spear adjective competition: Clue #15

Clue #15 in the guess-the-review-adjective competition for SPEAR prizes, this time a quote from a review in @ChicagoRevBooks by @JakeCasella. No purchase necessary! Open to anyone in the world! Rules and how to enter:

Here is the penultimate clue, Clue #15, in the One Adjective to Rule Them All competition. Words from “Cold Iron and Piercing Beauty in Spear,” from the Chicago Review of Books, by Jake Casella Brookins. The background illustration is taken from one of Spear‘s interior artworks by Rovina Cai. The final clue will be tomorrow; I’ll close the competition end-of-day Friday, and announce the winner/s…

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#adjective competition #chicago review of books #jake casella brookins #reviews #Spear

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ianmacallen · 1 year

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At the Chicago review of books, I looked at the post-apocalypse in Sarah K. Jackson's Not Alone where a storm of microplastics kills almost everyone.

#book #novel #book review #chicago review of books #environmental disaster #microplastics

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whilereadingandwalking · 1 year

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Flint Taylor's The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago is a historical chronicle of the decades it took to get any form of justice for torture survivors. For years, the Chicago Police Department used terror tactics and physical torture to get false confessions from men of color—I won't even call them suspects, since almost all of them were simply men of color profiled by the police—torturing more than 120 people. The worst of them was commander Jon Burge, but it was a culture and pervasive chain of violence, not to mention a cover-up, that involved people at every level of the police department and Chicago government, and is a shameful stain on Chicago history that needs to be well-known.

The book exposes the lengths to which people would rather be ignorant—the lengths they'll go to in order to preserve the system—to avoid confronting hard questions. How things suddenly become political and "editorial" the moment they implicate the system as a whole. How the judicial system tried to subvert and break down these trials at every turn, largely due to the ingrained biases of judges and to the concerted efforts of the government to cover-up as much as they could.

It is a thick, dense history of both the torture and primarily the legal process it took to expose it and break the police code of silence and government conspiracy of silence that dominated up to that point. Dense, but hard to put down. Horrific, and exposed me to a lot of history that I should know as a Chicagoan and progressive in Chicago.

My only complaint about the book is it dearly needs a timeline. I made one myself full of crucial names and dates, but it would have been a huge help. To organize his story, Taylor has to go back and forth in time sometimes—totally fine, but less confusing with a timeline present!

Content warnings for violence, torture, racism (systemic, language/slurs, violence), misogynoir, sexual assault

#flint taylor #history books #nonfiction books #the torture machine #chicago history #my book reviews

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garadinervi · 2 years

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Edwin Morgan, Archives, The «Chicago Review», Volume 19, No. 4, 'Anthology of Concretism', Edited by Eugene Wildman, Chicago, IL, September 1967 (pdf here) [Monoskop. The Edwin Morgan Archive at the Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh] [Bibl.: Gnomes (Akros Publications, 1968); Collected Poems (Carcanet Press, 1990)]

#graphic design #art #poetry #concrete poetry #visual poetry #typewriting #book #magazine #chicago review #edwin morgan #eugene wildman #edwin morgan archive #scottish poetry library #monoskop #akros publications #carcanet press #1960s #1990s

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chicagobeerpass · 4 months

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Chicago Beer Pass: 2023 Ends

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Welcome to the Chicago Beer Pass: Your ticket to all the great beer events happening in and around Chicago.

On this final episode of 2023, Brad Chmielewski and Nik White celebrate the end of the year with fresh cans of Fistmas from Revolution Brewing. Last year, the guys ended the year with Fistmas as well, and it's only fitting because Revolution Brewing might be one of those breweries the guys drink and talk about the most. As they crush a few cans, they talk about a few favorite memories of the year and share their experience at the final days of Metropolitan Brewing. Thanks to everyone for listening & watching this year; Brad and Nik are looking forward to another fun year in Illinois craft beer.

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