His debut collection of 12 stories is set among a wide variety of places and characters. “I love the idea that someone will discover it.”
Miles Harvey’s short stories in ‘Registry of Forgotten Objects’ travel from rural Indiana to a dystopian future
Category: Books
Biblioracle: 4 Chicago books on working for Labor Day, from Upton Sinclair to Studs Terkel
Chicago is intimately tied to the history of the labor movement and Labor Day. We suggest some Chicago-related books that remain relevant as we think about the past and the future of work.
Column: Taking another ride with Ken Kesey, Tom Wolfe and a bunch of Merry Pranksters in ‘Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test’
When revisiting books we’ve already read, we can uncover new things about the book and, perhaps, also new things about ourselves.
Biblioracle: ‘The Bookshop’ taught me something new about bookstores
Author Evan Friss tracks the history of books and how we sell them, from back in Ben Franklin’s day to the present.
Biblioracle: Halle Butler’s new novel ‘Banal Nightmare’ will trap you inside the millennial mind
Halle Butler is considered one of those writers who can most illuminate the lives and thoughts of her generation.
Biblioracle: Why don’t men read novels?
Novels are not instructive, but they are illustrative, and if you keep reading them, you’ll have a better understanding that there is no one way to live.
Francine Pascal, creator of beloved ‘Sweet Valley High’ books, dies at 92
Francine Pascal, a onetime soap opera writer whose “Sweet Valley High” novels and the ongoing adventures of twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield and other teens captivated millions of young readers, has died at age 92.
Edna O’Brien, Irish literary giant who wrote ‘The Country Girls,’ dies at 93
Edna O’Brien, Ireland’s literary pride and outlaw who scandalized her native land with her debut novel “The Country Girls” before gaining international acclaim as a storyteller and iconoclast that found her welcomed everywhere from Dublin to the White House, has died. She was 93.
Biblioracle: ‘The Wedding People’ is Alison Espach’s moving, funny latest, set at a coastal hotel
“The Wedding People” is a story of what it means to lift oneself out of one life and into another through acts of individual will and fellowship with others.
Prosecutor says the New Jersey man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie was trying to carry out a fatwa
A man who severely injured author Salman Rushdie in a frenzied knife attack in western New York was motivated by a Hezbollah leader’s endorsement of a fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death, prosecutors said Wednesday in announcing new terrorism charges.