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William Gass on the Fascism of the Heart
2+ hour, 19+ min ago (35+ words) Newcity Lit Books, poetry, comics and the literary world of Chicago by Annette Le Pique | April 9, 2026 "The Tunnel" By William Gass Dalkey Archive Press, 675 pages...
Ben Lerner's "Transcription" Remembers Where Recordings Miss
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (186+ words) Books, poetry, comics and the literary world of Chicago by Amanda Norton | April 6, 2026 Ben Lerner's newest novel, "Transcription," begins with a kind of metaphysics, filtered through the eyes of the narrator's ten-year-old daughter, Eva, who suggests to her father that…...
The Great Lakes Feel Intimate and Expansive in New "On an Inland Sea" Collection
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (763+ words) Books, poetry, comics and the literary world of Chicago by Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch | April 2, 2026 My mother prides herself on knowing the direction of Lake Michigan. When she visits me in Chicago, wherever we are in the city'despite her self-admittedly bad…...
Author Kirsten King on "A Good Person
1+ week, 3+ day ago (663+ words) Books, poetry, comics and the literary world of Chicago by Sadaf Ferdowsi | March 30, 2026 While the book's plotting and pacing make it an easy read, there's an underlying commentary that's not so simple. Social media connects her while it isolates her,…...
Bill Hillmann Is Fightin" in the Ring and on the Page
4+ week, 2+ hour ago (173+ words) Books, poetry, comics and the literary world of Chicago by Jordan Mc Clements | March 12, 2026 What inspired this novel, "White Flight? As someone who is a student of Cus D'Amato and Mike Tyson and also a student of Don De Grazia…...
Elizabeth Zaleski Tallies Life's Disappointments in "The Trouble with Loving Poets
1+ mon, 2+ hour ago (388+ words) Newcity Lit One instructive flourish happens relatively deep into Elizabeth Zaleski's debut collection, "The Trouble with Loving Poets and Other Essays on Failure." After confessing a bomb-throwing take on dogs in one essay, she provides a confession of a different…...
Timothy J. Hillegonds' Memoir Revisits Addiction, Ambition and a Complicated Rescue
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (209+ words) Books, poetry, comics and the literary world of Chicago by Donald G. Evans | March 5, 2026 "I could feel how badly I wanted to be a part of Dempsey's world, but maybe even more than that, I could feel how badly I no…...
Not Heart-To-Heart, More Like Spleen-to-Spleen: Sara Levine Discusses "The Hitch
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (110+ words) Books, poetry, comics and the literary world of Chicago by Eileen Favorite | February 12, 2026 What makes "The Hitch" a great read is that Rose's offensiveness is so deranged. And hilarious. This unlikable narrator has a scorching wit and a (sort of)…...
Tracy Clark's "Edge" Finds Humanity Inside a Tough Chicago Detective Story
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (301+ words) Books, poetry, comics and the literary world of Chicago by Mary Wisniewski | February 5, 2026 In Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest," young Cecily asks her governess, Miss Prism, whether the novel she'd written had a happy ending. "The good ended…...
"To Kill a Cook" Mounts a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Restaurant Scene
2+ mon, 2+ hour ago (99+ words) Books, poetry, comics and the literary world of Chicago by Kate Burns | February 9, 2026 Akers regales us with a rollercoaster build, and his debaucherous, zinger-laced reveal made me miss the unsurveilled unpredictability of the days before cell phones and social media....