Children’s ‘running of the bulls’ highlights Hemingway Birthday Weekend in Oak Park
Three days of readings, musical performances and 'running of the bulls' planned for the Hemingway...
Books
Biblioracle: Yiyun Li writes about life after her sons’ suicides in ‘Things in Nature Merely Grow’
"Things in Nature Merely Grow" is about what Yiyun Li calls life inside an “abyss,”...
Column: Where are the shows about regular people fighting back?
A heist to erase student loan debt is at the center of the novel "The...
Amelia Earhart soars back into the headlines in new book ‘The Aviator and the Showman’
“The Aviator and the Showman” by Laurie Gwen Shapiro is an exciting new book about...
Faces of freedom come alive through Black history storytelling effort
The Midwest Underground Railroad Network and Chicago Association of African American Storytellers are presenting freedom...
Biblioracle: Dana A. Williams tells the tale of the indomitable Toni Morrison in ‘Toni at Random’
With “Toni at Random,” Dana A. Williams has crafted a book that manages to satisfy...
After nearly a quarter century helping run the La Grange library, a chapter is ending for longtime trustee
La Grange Library Trustee Becky Spratford has decided that after 24 years, it’s time to...
Column: His books bring us stories from the quiltwork of America. His latest is ‘Coyotes and Stars’
Author Robert Wolf aims to create what he calls an “autobiography of America.”
Biblioracle: Remembering the writers Frederick Forsyth and Edmund White
There have been two recent deaths of writers who did very different things in their...
Column: The new book ‘Sick and Dirty’ examines the not-so-hidden queerness of classic Hollywood
In "Sick and Dirty," author Michael Koresky takes a clear-eyed look at golden age Hollywood's...