Seminary Offsets Honors the Literary History of Chicago’s South Side with the Reissue of “Divine Days” – Chicago Review of Books

Seminary Offsets Honors the Literary History of Chicago’s South Side with the Reissue of “Divine Days” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] I am not so audacious as to claim there’s a single quality that weaves together all of us who love literature—readers, writers, booksellers, publishers, librarians, to name just a few. But whatever list of qualities we may come up with to describe everyone under the umbrella of books, high on that list would be … Read more

An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South” – Chicago Review of Books

An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The artist Winfred Rembert accomplished unbelievable things in his seventy-five years, and he was the first to admit how unbelievable they seemed. But he wants you to know what drove him from picking cotton at age nine to being a local basketball star to surviving a lynching, working chain gangs, and gaining renown as … Read more