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News Thu Jul 16 2009
Bookmarks
- The Tribune reviews local author Billy Lombardo's How to Hold a Woman, calling it "beautifully written, replete with small, perfect details of family life in the wake of tragedy."
- The Independent takes a look at Steven J. Zipperstein's Rosenfeld's Lives, a study on the Chicago native, New York intellectual and close friend of Saul Bellow, Isaac Rosenfeld, who died at 38 and only published one novel.
- Is Aleksandar Hemon the new Vladimir Nabokov? Open Letters Monthly thinks not, but finds plenty enough to love about Hemon's prose as it is. Over at Pop Matters, Hemon answers 20 Questions.
- The Second Pass points us to a 1955 interview with Nelson Algren in the Paris Review.
- Barack Obama's books have been barred from a prison in Colorado as they are "potentially detrimental to national security."
- Did you know Ernest Hemingway tried his hand at being a KGB spy? The new book Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America reveals all.
- Time Out Chicago recounts the recent Shel Silverstein celebration in Millennium Park and remembers some favorite poems.
- The Guardian gives Ray Bradbury some love in their "Brief Survey of the Short Story" series.
- Claire Zulkey shamelessly promotes some new titles by local authors who happen to be her friends (and herself).
