- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Dec 19, 2012
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People Issue 2012:
Michael Robbins, the poet"I have a real aversion to poetry readings, even when I'm reading at them."
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Sep 12, 2012
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Our five best bets for fall books
Ray Bradbury, Chris Ware, and Fran Lebowitz round out the page-turning season
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Sep 12, 2012
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One to watch this fall: Seminary Co-op Bookstore has outlived the superstore assault
Leaving behind the longtime digs graced by Saul Bellow and the president of the Dominican Republic
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Aug 29, 2012
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A portrait of David Foster Wallace as a midwestern author
The first full biography of the late novelist fails to bring much subtlety to how the region influenced his art
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Apr 5, 2012
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Spring Books 2012:
What's a publisher to do?Never mind the medium. It's the story that matters.
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Apr 5, 2012
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In their words: Doug Seibold, founder, Agate Publishing
"The status quo is good for the big guys, but when it starts to break down, opportunity is created for small companies like mine. And fortune favors the bold."
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Apr 5, 2012
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In their words: James O'Neill, Senior VP, marketing strategy, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
"Instead of the teachers teaching everything for the first time in the classroom, they can now have the students use the app as a way to learn new concepts."
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Apr 5, 2012
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In their words: Victor David Giron, publisher, editor in chief, publicist, and accountant, Curbside Splendor
"Like all small presses, we lack any sort of significant marketing or distribution network. But we work like hell, and our goal is to make a beautiful-looking book."
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Apr 5, 2012
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In their words: Rian Murphy, head of staff and sales, Drag City
"The book business is just as on its knees as the record business. You measure success differently than you might have in the past."
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Apr 5, 2012
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In their words: Mike Levine, acquisitions editor, Northwestern University Press
"It's important for publishers to remember that they're not technology companies. Their business is finding good books that people will want to read."
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Dec 22, 2011
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Fred Sasaki, the poetry promoter
'It seemed to me the perfect scene of a literary fantasy'
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Dec 22, 2011
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Leopold 'Lee' Froehlich, the editor
'Print isn't going to die; it's going to change. Railroads aren't dead and radio's not dead—they just changed.'
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Sep 15, 2011
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Freezing moments in time
Artist, writer, and cabbie Dmitry Samarov has a new book
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Jul 13, 2011
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Once Upon a River author Bonnie Jo Campbell
The Michigan writer discusses her new novel.
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Jun 9, 2011
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Chicago’s comedy secret? Margaret Hicks says it’s fail again, fail better.
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Jun 2, 2011
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Freedom Rider Thomas Armstrong on segregation, progress, and the trauma of war
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, May 5, 2011
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The double message of Chester Brown's Paying for It
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Apr 21, 2011
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Spring Books: Homages
Five Chicago novelists on the books and writers that inspired them.
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Apr 21, 2011
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Finding Thomas McGuane
Luis Alberto Urrea discovered a master in beat-up paperbacks.
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Apr 21, 2011
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Vonnegut’s Disciple
Slaughterhouse-Five gave Joe Meno a path to The Great Perhaps.
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