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“I Had to Have a Different America:” An Interview with Catherine Lacey about “Biography of X” – Chicago Review of Books

“I Had to Have a Different America:” An Interview with Catherine Lacey about “Biography of X” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMarch 22, 2023 by Shayne Terry
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Open Catherine Lacey’s Biography of X and you will find a fictional book called Biography of X—though its writer, CM Lucca, admits early on that … Read More

Examining the Creative Process in “American Mermaid” – Chicago Review of Books

Examining the Creative Process in “American Mermaid” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMarch 21, 2023 by Ian MacAllen
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A decade ago, the success of wizard books and vampire franchises had caused something of a stir in literary New York. Culture writers Lindsay Weber … Read More

The Moral Sacrifices of Love in “Tell Her Everything” – Chicago Review of Books

The Moral Sacrifices of Love in “Tell Her Everything” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMarch 20, 2023 by Farooq Chaudhry
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By most accounts, one is considered a wild success if he grows up in poverty in a rural village in India and then overcomes the … Read More

A Conversation with Aram Mrjoian – Chicago Review of Books

A Conversation with Aram Mrjoian – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMarch 17, 2023 by Michael Welch
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Anthologies are simultaneously one of the most important venues for literature and an almost impossible task to create. Readers expect to be enlightened on multiple … Read More

On Editorial Imposter Syndrome – Chicago Review of Books

On Editorial Imposter Syndrome – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMarch 17, 2023 by Aram Mrjoian
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In the earliest days of publishing my writing, before I had really figured out who I was as an artist, when I was willing to … Read More

An Interview with Laura Adamczyk – Chicago Review of Books

An Interview with Laura Adamczyk – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMarch 15, 2023 by Meredith Boe
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We all have a story we tell about our lives. There is a certain power we harness in storytelling that lets us be whoever we … Read More

Trauma, Memory, and Innocence in Künstlers in Paradise – Chicago Review of Books

Trauma, Memory, and Innocence in Künstlers in Paradise – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMarch 14, 2023 by Grace Linden
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Salomea Künstler, known as Mamie and all of eleven, has just arrived in California with her parents and grandfather when Cathleen Schine’s Künstlers in Paradise … Read More

A Conversation with Patricia Smith About “Unshuttered” – Chicago Review of Books

A Conversation with Patricia Smith About “Unshuttered” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMarch 13, 2023 by Mandana Chaffa
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A list of Patricia Smith’s achievements in poetry could take up much of this interview. A poet, playwright, essayist, educator and mentor, she’s deservedly won … Read More

Blurring Relationship Boundaries in “Thirst for Salt” – Chicago Review of Books

Blurring Relationship Boundaries in “Thirst for Salt” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMarch 10, 2023 by Michael Knapp
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Our unnamed narrator meets Jude, a local antique dealer and washed-up actor, while on vacation with her mother in an isolated Australian coastal town. Jude … Read More

Three Generations of Witches and Female Power in “Weyward” – Chicago Review of Books

Three Generations of Witches and Female Power in “Weyward” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMarch 9, 2023 by Sara Webster
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Perhaps there are no more famous witches than Shakespeare’s three “weyward” wenches. The crookedness of the Bard’s (and Britain’s) witches represented a cultural fear of … Read More

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