Lit Critic's Choice Archives

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Oct 14, 2014
Lit and rock merge at Curbside Splendor's Words + Music

The indie imprint celebrates the release of new books—and its first cassingle—at the Empty Bottle.
- By Megan Thielking
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Words + Music #6, Empty Bottle, Curbside Splendor, Victor David Giron, U. of I. at Urbana-Champaign, Tim Kinsella, Brian Costello, Kill Manual, Susan Lanier, The Game We Play, James Tadd Adcox, Does Not Love, Western Illinois University, Erika T. Wurth, Crazy Horse's Girlfriend, Cassandra Troyan, Joe Meno, Office Girl, Jim Ruland, Forest of Fortune, Fashion Brigade, the Peekaboos, Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, Elia Einhorn

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Jul 21, 2014
The Newberry Book Fair turns 30

Book fair manager Dan Crawford discusses three decades of donations.
- By Jake Malooley
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Newberry Library, Newberry Book Fair, Dan Crawford, Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, Albert Schweitzer, Desmond Tutu, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Sara Paretsky, Roger Ebert

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Jul 7, 2014
Recommended
Shop local during Chicago Independent Bookstore Day

Indie booksellers band together to offer discounts, giveaways, and author appearances on July 12.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Chicago Independent Bookstore Day, Book Cellar, Lincoln Square, Sandmeyer's Bookstore, Printer's Row, Women & Children First, Andersonville, Seminary Co-op, 57th Street Books, Hyde Park, Paula Haney, Hoosier Mama Pie Company, Open Books, River North, Lilli Carre, Stefan Moorehead, Unabridged Bookstore, Lakeview, City Lit Books, Logan Square, Powell's, University Village, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Jun 23, 2014
Recommended
Printers Ball makes a case for ink and paper

Ignore your iPhone screen and check out some screen printing at the tenth annual event.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Hubbard Street Lofts, Printers Ball, Hubbard Street Loftd, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Apr 20, 2014
Recommended
The Encyclopedia Show turns a final page

The live-lit staple ends its five-year run.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, The Encyclopedia Show, Stage 773, Shanny Jean Maney, Robbie Q. Telfer, live lit, Michael Jordan, Alan Turing, Mesopotamia, Greece, Egypt, Wyoming, WBEZ, Chicago Amplified, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Jun 26, 2013
Recommended
Workshopping with Irvine Welsh

The Trainspotting and Skagboys author joins Don De Grazia for a staged reading of their script in progress.
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Irvine Welsh, Skagboys, Trainspotting, Theater Wit, October, Printers Row Lit Fest, Filth, White Sox, Blackhawks, Public House Theatre, Put 'Em Up, Second City, John Cates, Pat McKenna, Don De Grazia, The Public House Theatre, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice May 23, 2013
Recommended
Queer histories in the making

Anthropologist Esther Newton turns the focus on herself; performance artist Holly Hughes looks at censorship with a unique familiarity.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Esther Newton, Holly Hughes, Cherry Grove, Fire Island, University of Michigan, My Butch Career, New York, John Frohnmeyer, National Endowment for the Arts, Karen Finley, Too Much Sky, Karen Finley, Supreme Court, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Nov 10, 2011
Rock art, suitable for framing

Thanks to Clay Hayes's Gig Posters, Volume 2, you don't have to steal your home decor anymore
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Mar 17, 2011
Recommended
Patton Oswalt, Author

Comedian Patton Oswalt can now call himself an author.
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Patton Oswalt, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Mar 3, 2011
Recommended
Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas

The two discuss their new memoir, Life, on the Line
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Grant Achatz, Nick Kokonas, memoir, Alinea, Life on the Line, Harold Washington Library Center, review, book review, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Feb 24, 2011
Cris Mazza
- By Kathie Bergquist
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Cris Mazza, Hyde Park Art Center, literary event

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Feb 17, 2011
Recommended
Greg Borzo

Already the author of a pictorial history of the Chicago el and a look at the city's "hidden treasures," Greg Borzo turns his attention to cycling in the useful new guide Where to Bike Chicago.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Greg Borzo, Bicycling, Chicago, Book Cellar, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Jul 2, 2009
Recommended
Elizabeth Brackett
- By Mick Dumke
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Apr 26, 2007
William R. Drennan
- By Harold Henderson

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Jul 20, 2006
John McNally
- By Jerome Ludwig

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Mar 30, 2006
Chris Abani

Mark Athitakis reviews Chris Abani's novella Becoming Abigail, the follow-up to the Nigerian-born writer's breakthrough novel, GraceLand.
- By Mark Athitakis
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Chris Abani, Mark Athitakis, GraceLand, Becoming Abigail, Lagos

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Sep 2, 2004
Alex Kotlowitz
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Alex Kotlowitz, Oak Park, Journalist, Book Stall at Chestnut Court

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Jun 17, 2004
Alain de Botton
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Literature, Philosophy, History, Romance, Society, Writer, London, Psychology, Self-Help

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Jan 29, 2004
Aleksander Hemon
- By Martha Bayne
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Aleksandar Hemon, Novel, Refugee, Bosnia, Chicago

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Sep 25, 2003
Al Franken
- By Brian Nemtusak
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Journalism, Politics, Entertainment, Conservative, Book Reading

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Apr 3, 2003
Adam Voith
- By Susannah Felts
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Novel, Reading, Music, Stand-up Comedy

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Aug 26, 1999
Alberto Mizrahi and Chorale Mystique
- By Ted Shen
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Alberto Mizrahi, Chorale Mystique, Jewish, Chants, Religion, Synagogue, Ravinia

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice May 7, 1998
Alan Klasky Never Loved Me
- By Jack Helbig
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Nena St. Louis, Love, Romance, Storytelling

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Jan 16, 1997
A Terrible Beauty is Born: An Evening of New Irish Literature
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Frank McCourt, Malachy McCourt, Chicago, A Couple of Blaguards, Limerick, Ireland, Brothers

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Oct 3, 1991
A Room of One's Own
- By Jack Helbig
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Virginia Woolf, Feminism, Cambridge Women's College, Eileen Atkins, Performance, Lecture

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The indie imprint celebrates the release of new books—and its first cassingle—at the Empty Bottle.

Book fair manager Dan Crawford discusses three decades of donations.

Indie booksellers band together to offer discounts, giveaways, and author appearances on July 12.

Ignore your iPhone screen and check out some screen printing at the tenth annual event.

The live-lit staple ends its five-year run.

The Trainspotting and Skagboys author joins Don De Grazia for a staged reading of their script in progress.

Anthropologist Esther Newton turns the focus on herself; performance artist Holly Hughes looks at censorship with a unique familiarity.

Thanks to Clay Hayes's Gig Posters, Volume 2, you don't have to steal your home decor anymore

Comedian Patton Oswalt can now call himself an author.

The two discuss their new memoir, Life, on the Line

Already the author of a pictorial history of the Chicago el and a look at the city's "hidden treasures," Greg Borzo turns his attention to cycling in the useful new guide Where to Bike Chicago.

Mark Athitakis reviews Chris Abani's novella Becoming Abigail, the follow-up to the Nigerian-born writer's breakthrough novel, GraceLand.

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