Books Set in the Cold for You to Read this Winter – Chicago Review of Books

Books Set in the Cold for You to Read this Winter – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] “Huge, dizzying, clumps and clusters of snow falling through the air, patches of white against an iron-gray sky, snow that touches your tongue with cold and winter, that kisses your face with its hesitant touch before freezing you to death. Twelve cotton-candy inches of snow, creating a fairytale world, making everything unrecognizably beautiful…” In … Read more

On Andrew Ewell’s “Set for Life” – Chicago Review of Books

On Andrew Ewell’s “Set for Life” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In Andrew Ewell’s debut novel, Set for Life, our unnamed narrator is a tenure-less creative writing professor at a middling college in upstate New York. He’s been riding the coattails of his wife/colleague/benefactor’s literary success for years and, as he approaches 40, he has yet to make good on his own writerly promise in … Read more