“Hangman” Takes the Reader on a Fascinating Journey Home – Chicago Review of Books

“Hangman” Takes the Reader on a Fascinating Journey Home – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] One morning, you receive a call and are told to board a flight. Your bags are already packed, a car has been sent to pick you up. When you’re hungry, you find food has been packed for you as well. It tastes like nothing. Perhaps someone is dead. This is how the narrator of … Read more

Laird Hunt Takes This World Sentence by Sentence – Chicago Review of Books

Laird Hunt Takes This World Sentence by Sentence – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] A friend explains that the world is divided into paragraph and sentence writers. A paragraph writer is like a brick mason, working with consistent materials and focused on maintaining a clean line as a wall unfolds. Building a stone wall, a sentence writer in contrast begins with a pile of rocks—clots of material formed … Read more

See the epic cover of Margot Mertz Takes It Down!

See the epic cover of Margot Mertz Takes It Down!

[ad_1] See the epic cover of Margot Mertz Takes It Down by Carrie McCrossen and Ian McWethy. Veronica Mars meets Moxie in this hilarious and biting YA contemporary novel following Margot Mertz, a girl who runs an internet cleanup business and embarks on a quest to take down a revenge-porn site targeting the girls in her school. Scroll down … Read more

Hot Takes and Splintered Identities in “Fake Accounts” – Chicago Review of Books

Hot Takes and Splintered Identities in “Fake Accounts” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts is one of the most buzzed-about debuts of this year. The premise is intriguing: On the eve of Trump’s inauguration, a blogger finds out that her boyfriend is secretly a conspiracy theorist. She decides to dump him rather than confront him right away. The secret knowledge that Felix, her boyfriend, … Read more