- Blogs, Bleader, May 24, 2013
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Your summer reading: The River of No Return by Bee Ridgway
The River of No Return is fun and suspenseful and awesome.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 24, 2013
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Chicago River, the symphony, and the book that inspired it
The Chicago River, a new jazz symphony by Orbert Davis, was inspired by The Lost Panoramas, a book that documents the reversal of the Chicago River.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 22, 2013
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Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby is not the first movie to insult F. Scott Fitzgerald
Revisiting Frank Borzage's Three Comrades, the only film on which F. Scott Fitzgerald received screenwriting credit
- Blogs, Bleader, May 17, 2013
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Marcus Samuelsson's Yes, Chef—reviewed
A review of the celebrity chef's new memoir.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 16, 2013
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New study shows that a woman's reading material reflects her willingness to put out
MissTravel.com lets you know which girls in the airport are most likely to put out, based on their reading material!
- Blogs, Bleader, May 12, 2013
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Still thinking about Lookingglass Theatre's Still Alice—and about Alzheimer's
The play and the novel it's based on grapple with the disease honestly, as does a recent account in free verse.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 10, 2013
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Distant Intimacy: An object lesson in knowing when to quit
A great essayist and screenwriter embarrass themselves with a book of their correspondence.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 8, 2013
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If you don't know what Faulkner said about the past, you haven't been paying attention
The author's thoughts on the past live on as a meme.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 3, 2013
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Alex Espinoza talks about Latino actors in old Hollywood and The Five Acts of Diego León
A new book tells the story of a Mexican actor in Hollywood in the 1930s.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 26, 2013
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A review of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
Review of a new biography of Margaret Fuller, a Victorian woman amazingly ahead of her time
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 22, 2013
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Not quite Detroit—Chicago as described by a New York Times book critic
Rachel Shteir's review of three Chicago books is a little over the top.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 19, 2013
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A review of The Interestings, the latest book from Meg Wolitzer
The author will read at Women & Children First on Sunday, April 21.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 19, 2013
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Lumpen cofounder Leslie Stella on the record about her latest book, Permanent Record
Leslie Stella ventures into YA territory in her latest novel.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 17, 2013
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Thomas Dyja talks about The Third Coast and Chicago's glory years
The author discusses his new book about Chicago's postwar heyday.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 12, 2013
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Gilbert Hernandez talks about comics, childhood, and Marble Season
The graphic novelist appears at Quimby's on Thursday.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 11, 2013
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Fifty years ago: A basketball title and a school boycott for Chicago
In 1963, the Loyola Ramblers struck a blow for integration, while the Chicago Public Schools were preserving segregation.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 5, 2013
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A chat with Amy Stewart, The Drunken Botanist
The author discusses her new book, about the relationship between plants and booze.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 3, 2013
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Poetry nominated for National Magazine Award
Talking with senior editor Don Share about the magazine's success this year
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 2, 2013
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Hey world, meet the author of Baby Meets World—tonight
Nicholas Day, Slate blogger and author of the brand-new Baby Meets World, appears tonight at 57th Street Books.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 1, 2013
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Concerning those movies that exist only in spectators' imaginations
Imagining a nonexistent movie classic starring Peter Sellers
