Chad Berry’s new edited collection, The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance, was profiled by Robert Loerzel in the August 7-13, 2008, issue of Time Out Chicago. […]
Category: reviews
“Rachel in the World” endorsed by B&N Notable Reader
Sandra Tsing Loh includes Jane Bernstein’s Rachel in the World in her Notable Reader roundup for Barnes & Noble Review. “One of the most extraordinary, awful, funny, candid, heart-rending, brave books about […]
“Sex Goes to School” at The Smart Set
Jessa Crispin, editor of Bookslut.com, includes Susan K. Freeman’s Sex Goes to School: Girls and Sex Education before the 1960s in her latest piece for The Smart Set. “It’s hard […]
The Wire lauds “John Cage”
UK’s The Wire magazine, modern music’s arbiter of good taste, recently reviewed John Cage, David Nicholl’s “very fine book” in our American Composers series. “To the casual cultural onlooker, John Cage is […]
The Jewish Press reviews “Unwanted Beauty”
Writing for The Jewish Press, Menachem Wecker reviews Brett Ashley Kaplan’s Unwanted Beauty: Aesthetic Pleasure in Holocaust Representation in conjunction with Joyce Ellen Weinstein’s art exhibition opening at the Florida Holocaust Museum. […]
Popmatters reviews “Follow Your Heart”
Joe Evans and Christopher Brooks’s Follow Your Heart received an 8 out of 10 from Popmatters. “The life of Joe Evans is intriguingly scattershot and full of cameos from celebrities […]
The Times Literary Supplement reviews two new Dreiser volumes
The May 30, 2008, issue of The Times Literary Supplement includes a joint review of Theodore Dreiser’s A Picture and a Criticism of Life: New Letters, Volume 1 edited by Donald Pizer, […]
“A Stranger Among Us” literary events, and another good review
OV Books has a week of literary events lined up in Chicago to celebrate the publication of Stacy Bierlein’s new anthology A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision […]
“Follow Your Heart” reviewed in the Washington Times
William F. Gavin reviews the Joe Evans autobiography Follow Your Heart for the The Washington Times. “For every Armstrong or Ellington or Charlie Parker, there were countless musicians, their names […]
“Working Girl Blues” reviewed in Nashville’s City Paper
Ron Wynn gives Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens a quick read in the City Paper. “Working Girl Blues puts the spotlight on a magnificent performer whose […]
Utne Reader reviews “A Stranger Among Us”
The May-June 2008 issue of Utne Reader includes an enthusiastic review of Stacy Bierlein’s edited collection of short stories, A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection. “This anthology […]
Poetry Foundation features Colleen McElroy
Colleen McElroy’s new poetry collection Sleeping with the Moon is featured at PoetryFoundation.org. “She will happily give the MFAs a headache with her unfashionably clear statements and heartbroken admissions and the bold […]