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Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 21, 2019
Court Theatre’s adaptation of The Adventures of Augie March joyfully embraces every moment

The men may kick and scream, but it’s the women who lead.
- By Kerry Reid
- Tags: Theater Review, The Adventures of Augie March, Court Theatre, Saul Bellow, David Auburn, Charles Newell, Patrick Mulvey, John Judd, Vivian Gornick, Marilyn Dodds Frank, Aurora Real de Asua, Chaon Cross, Luigi Sottile, John Culbert, Manual Cinema

Blogs, Bleader Jan 5, 2015
The Adventures of Augie March vs. I Sailed with Magellan: Greatest Chicago Book Tournament, round one

In a contest between work by two Chicago masters, our judge decides that one is great while the other is a great cure for insomnia.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Greatest Chicago Book, Books, Arts, Saul Bellow, Adventures of Augie March, Stuart Dybek, I Sailed With Magellan

Blogs, Bleader Jul 16, 2013
The Third Coast—turning a bunch of stuff that happened into drama

Thomas Dyja's history of Chicago finds the story line in 30 years of city life.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Books, Arts, Media, News, Chicago, Thomas Dyja, The Third Coast, Mies van der Rohe, Henry Darger, Mahalia Jackson, Paul Sills, Burr Tillstrom, Emmett Till, Claudia Cassidy, Julian Levi, Albert Cardinal Mayer, Rachel Shteir, Nelson Algren, Louis Sullivan, Richard J. Daley, Saul Bellow, Ray Kroch, Hugh Hefner, Robert Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, Gwendolyn Brooks, the Mecca, Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chess Records, Leonard and Phil Chess, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Harry Callahan

Blogs, Bleader Apr 22, 2013
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.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Books, Arts, Media, News, Rachel Shteir, New York Times Book Review, The Third Coast: Where Chicago Built the American Dream, Thomas Dyja, Golden: How Rod Blagojevich Talked Himself Out of the Governor’s Office and Into Prison, Jeff Coen, John Chase, You Were Never in Chicago, Neil Steinberg, Ben Hecht, Compass Players, Rod Blagojevich, Saul Bellow, James Atlas, Tablet, Rahm Emanuel

Blogs, Bleader Feb 21, 2013
Eating and schvitzing at the reborn Division Street Russian Baths

The Russian banya is back.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Division Street Baths, Red Square, Red Square Lounge, Saul Bellow, Nelson Algren, banya, schvits, Neil Steinberg, Saul Bellow, Nelson Algren, Russian food

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Sep 12, 2012
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
- By Noah Berlatsky
- Tags: Lit Feature, fall arts, bookstores, academica, Spencer Turbine Company, Jack Cella, University of Chicago, Jasmine Kwong, Megan Doherty, Saul Bellow, Seminary Co-op Bookstore

Blogs, Bleader Aug 2, 2012
On staying put

There's no place like home
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Neighborhoods, Moving Week, Moving Week, Saul Bellow, Augie March, Chicago neighborhoods, Evanston, CTA, el trains, Evergreen Plaza, Back of the Yards, Variations on a Theme

Blogs, Bleader Jan 5, 2012
Rahm swears off swearing for 2012

Mayor Emanuel is giving up cursing, impeachable sources say
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Flotsam and Jetsam, Resolution Week, Politics, Clout City, Variations on a Theme, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago mayor, New Year's resolutions, profanity, swearing, Buenos Aires, Samson, New York Times, David Brooks, Augie March, Saul Bellow, Depression, Wilmette, Porsche, New Trier, aldermen, city council, Chicago budget, Ed Burke, remap

Arts & Culture, Book Review Oct 27, 2011
Martin Amis confronts Saul Bellow's Chicago

The British novelist discusses the ‘loud, brilliant, and mean’ city of his literary hero
- By J.C. Gabel
- Tags: Book Review, Saul Bellow, Martin Amis, American writers, Brooklyn, Isabel Fonseca, Harold Washington Library, John Barron, Chicago Sun-Times, The Adventures of Augie March

Blogs, Bleader Sep 8, 2011
Augie March-inspired flash fiction contest

Submit your 750-word version of the Great American Novel to a flash fiction writing contest.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Books, Flash Fiction Writing Contest, One Book, One Chicago, Stuart Dybek, MacArthur Foundation, writing, flash fiction, Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, Chicago Public Library

Blogs, Bleader Aug 17, 2011
Chicago Public Library announces this fall's One Book, One Chicago selection

The Chicago Public Library's pick for its 2011 Fall citywide reading program is Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Books, Chicago Public Library, One Book One Chicago, Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, Steve Bogira, Courtroom 302

Blogs, Bleader Oct 6, 2010
Our Best, Brightest, and Snazziest

Chicago prepares to honor its greatest writers—and dress their heirs.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Style, Media, Lit & Lectures, News Bites, Books, Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, Northeastern Illinois University, Saul Bellow, Nelson Algren, Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lorraine Hansberry, Studs Terkel, Art Shay, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Elysabeth Alfano, Fear No Art Chicago

Blogs, Bleader Jan 7, 2010
Help Fund a Chicago Literary Hall of Fame

The Chicago Writers Association hosts Deck the Hall, a benefit for the proposed Chicago Literary Hall of Fame
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Books, Chicago Writers Association, Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, Don De Grazia, Bayo Ojikutu, Marcus Sakey, Sheffield's, Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, Theodore Dreiser, James T. Farrell, Mike Royko, Studs Terkel, Franklin Rosemont

Blogs, Bleader Apr 1, 2009
Nelson Algren

Remembering a conversation between Nelson Algren and the sap who bought his poker table.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: News, News Bites, Studs Terkel, Saul Bellow, Nelson Algren, David Peltz, Humboldt's Gift, A Walk on the Wild Side, Bettina Drew, Hurricane Carter, Nelson Algren: A Life on the Wild Side, The Devil's Stocking

Blogs, Bleader Oct 5, 2007
Exile on Bellow's street

Toni Preckwinkle puts the brakes on a street honoring Saul Bellow and raises some unpleasant questions about the author.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: News, Chicagoland, Toni Preckwinkle, Saul Bellow, Brent Staples

Arts & Culture, Travel Jun 17, 1999
Down Town

The thriving if sinful city of Cairo seemed destined for greatness. What went wrong?
- By Paul Turner
- Tags: Travel, Cairo, Illinois, Alexander County, Illinois, pronunciation of Illinois placenames, Mark Twain, Lloyd Bosecker, Robert Hunt, Charles Koen, Hattie Kendrick, race, riots, United Front, boycotts, Julian Bond, American Nazi Party, protests, Illinois Central Railroad, history, Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant, Fort Defiance, strategic importance of Cairo, Illinois, pronunciation of Cairo, migration, immigration, Safford Library, sculpture, Janet Scudder, George Grey Barnard, vigilantism, William "Froggy" James, lynching, hangings, martial law, crime, slot machines, violence, Jake Rubin, Urbandale, Illinois, Rocky Rothschild, gangsters, Bobby McAdoo, race riots, riverboat gambling, Metropolis, Illinois, CNN, Chicago Tribune, Cairo, Illinois in literature, Anthony Trollope, Saul Bellow, Jonathan Raban, Andrew H. Malcolm, Charles Dickens, New York Times Magazine, Hamburger Wagon, Carl Boyce, Cairo, Illinois businesses, Elmer Smith, Elmer Smith, Tamms Correctional Center, supermax prisons, Herbie "Duke" Washam, bars

News & Politics, Feature Mar 14, 1996
State of Grace

Saul Bellow's "Illinois Journey" Revisited
- By James Ballowe
- Tags: Feature, Saul Bellow, Illinois, travel, Holiday magazine, Galena, Illinois, Bonnie Geisert, Art Geisert, Nauvoo, Illinois, Cairo, Illinois, Shawneetown, Illinois, Shawnee National Forest, Gary DeNeal, Judy DeNeal, Springfield, Elizabethtow, Cave in Rock, Rush Limbaugh, Mormons, I-55, Estell Neff, Metropolis, Illinois, "Ramblin"' Rudy Phillips

News & Politics, Media May 26, 1994
Trial by Goudie, Part 2/Staples and Bellow, an Odd Couple/News Speak/The Bosnia Question
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, Hot Type, David Protess, Rob Warden, David Dowaliby, Cynthia Dowaliby, Helmut Carsten Hofer, ABC7 Chicago Suzanne Olds, Dean Olds, Chuck Goudie, Diann Burns, Brent Staples, Saul Bellow, New York Times, Hyde Park, Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, books, V.S. Naipaul, New Yorker, book reviews, Chicago Sun-Times, Sam McKeel, American Publishing, layoffs, Bosnia, dance

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The men may kick and scream, but it’s the women who lead.

In a contest between work by two Chicago masters, our judge decides that one is great while the other is a great cure for insomnia.

Thomas Dyja's history of Chicago finds the story line in 30 years of city life.

Rachel Shteir's review of three Chicago books is a little over the top.

The Russian banya is back.

Leaving behind the longtime digs graced by Saul Bellow and the president of the Dominican Republic

There's no place like home

Mayor Emanuel is giving up cursing, impeachable sources say

The British novelist discusses the ‘loud, brilliant, and mean’ city of his literary hero

Submit your 750-word version of the Great American Novel to a flash fiction writing contest.

The Chicago Public Library's pick for its 2011 Fall citywide reading program is Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March

Chicago prepares to honor its greatest writers—and dress their heirs.

The Chicago Writers Association hosts Deck the Hall, a benefit for the proposed Chicago Literary Hall of Fame

Remembering a conversation between Nelson Algren and the sap who bought his poker table.

Toni Preckwinkle puts the brakes on a street honoring Saul Bellow and raises some unpleasant questions about the author.

The thriving if sinful city of Cairo seemed destined for greatness. What went wrong?

Saul Bellow's "Illinois Journey" Revisited

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