An Interview with Jacqueline Crooks – Chicago Review of Books

An Interview with Jacqueline Crooks – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” If there’s any book pulsing with this truth, spoken by Bob Marley about the power of music, it is Jacqueline Crooks’s Fire Rush—a book which one can expect to be astonished by from its musicality, fierce passion, and powerful originality. When … Read more

a Conversation with Lisa Cupolo – Chicago Review of Books

a Conversation with Lisa Cupolo – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Lisa Cupolo’s debut book, Have Mercy on Us, won the W.S. Porter Prize for short story collections. The ten stories are a rich exploration of people continually seeking, wrestling, and walking the line of great tension in their relation to others, and also within themselves. There is an abiding sense of hope and mystery as … Read more

An Interview with Ramona Reeves on “It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories” – Chicago Review of Books

An Interview with Ramona Reeves on “It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In this heartfelt and bracing debut, Ramona Reeves renders the complex lives of the people of Mobile, Alabama, in all their pursuits and struggles. It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories presents a memorable account of a community through the intimate lens of their relationships, addictions, longings, and fears. Reeves excellently sets the … Read more

Confronting the Injustice in our Justice System in “They Can’t Take Your Name” – Chicago Review of Books

Confronting the Injustice in our Justice System in “They Can’t Take Your Name” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] It’s been thirty years since the Father’s Day Bank Massacre of 1991, a robbery at the United Bank Tower in Denver which ended in the murders of four bank guards. The prime suspect, a former cop, was acquitted at trial. Anyone familiar with the incident can easily trace the similar threads that Robert Justice … Read more