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Plus: Drugpins And Supper Clubs
Over the transom.
1. Remembering David Hernandez.
Chicago’s unofficial poet laureate.
2. Northwestern history professor Garry Wills appeared on The Colbert Report to discuss his new book Why Priests? A Failed Tradition. Here’s a brief look:
Posted on February 26, 2013
Jamaica Kincaid vs. Roxane Gay
Over the transom.
1. Jamaica Kincaid.
“After a 10-year hiatus, Caribbean author Jamaica Kincaid, most known for At the Bottom of the River, is returning to the literary scene with last week’s release See Now Then and making a stop at Printers Row on Feb. 21 to speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning Tribune columnist Mary Schmich about the novel and Kincaid’s career. This will be the author s only Chicago appearance related to the release.”
Posted on February 14, 2013
A Visit To Paradise
From the YouTube channel of Selectively Mute this week:
“The wonderful Mike Scott was doing a bit of a book signing at Readings Bookstore in Carlton, Australia. He was reading antidotes from his new autobiography Adventures Of a Waterboy. In this video he talks about his experience visiting a gospel church in Chicago.”
Posted on February 13, 2013
Plus: On John Boehner’s Desk
Over the transom.
1. “Time is running out on the 2012 Great Chicago Book Sale.”
And I’m already writing 2013 on all my checks.
But seriously, check it out.
Books in every subject up to 80% off!
Many gift editions at deep discounts!
Sale must end February 28!
Posted on February 5, 2013
With Awesome Bonus Video
The Guild Literary Complex continues the eighth year of Palabra Pura with an evening of bilingual poetry titled “Whether in Chicago.”
Curated by Rafael Franco, this event asks us to consider what role, if any, weather plays, whether significantly or not, in writing and how that writing might weather the winds of literary exploration. The event will include poetry in Spanish, English, and Spanglish. Featured readers include Emily Rose Giddings and Alex Bonner.
Posted on February 1, 2013
