Eig said he was home alone in Lakeview when he heard the announcement. “It’s kind of hard to top the year I just had.”
Chicago author Jonathan Eig wins Pulitzer Prize for his groundbreaking biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Category: Books
Danny Parkins and Ben Kaplan unlock the hidden NBA potential of D3 alumni in the new book ‘Pipeline to the Pros’
Is there a new unbeaten path to the top of the NBA? That’s the question Ben Kaplan and Danny Parkins raise in their book “Pipeline to the Pros.”
Biblioracle: Joe Dunthorne’s 2018 novel “The Adulterants” wonderfully blends humor and pathos
Joe Dunthorne’s “The Adulterants,” set in 2011, is the story of Ray Morris, a young married man with a pregnant spouse.
Chicago area’s independent bookstores see revival
The book industry as a whole, once viewed as on the verge of collapse, has largely bounced back since the COVID-19 pandemic, with hundreds of new members in the American Booksellers Association.
Remembering Jay Robert Nash, a prolific writer with a huge personality
He wrote dozens of books and spun countless tales, many of them in Chicago taverns and some of them true. He died on April 22 at age 86.
Biblioracle: Netflix’s ‘Ripley’ does justice to Patricia Highsmith’s book
I started the new Netflix series “Ripley” as a decided skeptic. The show’s source material, “The Talented Mr. Ripley” by Patricia Highsmith, is one of my desert island books. The novel is a sui generis portrayal of a character without apparent conscience, but whom we nonetheless feel great attachment to. Other writers have been trying […]
What to do around Chicago: Trace Adkins, C2E2 and a bookstore crawl
Also this weekend, Frankie Beverly at the United Center, Mike Birbiglia in the Loop and a 25th Annual Poetry Fest.
Biblioracle: What is happiness? A slim new book from Adam Gopnik has an answer
When I saw the title, the song “Happiness” from the musical “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” popped into my head.
Growing idea: Libraries repurpose card catalogs for garden seed exchanges
Area libraries, including those in Homewood, Park Forest and Blue Island, are repurposing old card catalog cabinets to house flower and vegetable seeds, encouraging people to donate their leftovers and others to try new varieties.
Times change, but City News Cafe stays the course as the place with thousands of magazines
The store often attracts customers from nearby states such as Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa.