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Telling tales at Columbia’s Story Week

December 23, 2018 at 4:46 p.m.

Randall Albers still gets emotional when recalling a cherished memory from Story Week, the festival of writers he founded 17 years ago. In 2000, Hubert Selby Jr., author of "Last...

Elizabeth Blackwell's "While Beauty Slept" reinvents the classic "Sleeping Beauty."

Elizabeth Blackwell on ‘While Beauty Slept’

May 9, 2019 at 4:23 p.m.

Like the heroine in her new novel, Elizabeth Blackwell is not the sort of person about whom stories are told. A veteran freelance writer, she is usually the one telling...

Elizabeth Blackwell on ‘While Beauty Slept’

December 23, 2018 at 4:34 p.m.

Like the heroine in her new novel, Elizabeth Blackwell is not the sort of person about whom stories are told. A veteran freelance writer, she is usually the one telling...

Author offers peek at early Spielberg work

May 9, 2019 at 4:21 p.m.

In reflecting on the kingdom he created, Walt Disney once said, "It all started with a mouse." For filmmaker Steven Spielberg, it all started with a truck. That is the...

Author offers peek at early Spielberg work

December 23, 2018 at 4:16 p.m.

In reflecting on the kingdom he created, Walt Disney once said, "It all started with a mouse." For filmmaker Steven Spielberg, it all started with a truck. That is the...

Forest Park has four major cemeteries, including the Forest Home Cemetery. The lives of the people buried in them were the inspiration for the Historical Society of Forest Park's "The Des Plaines River Anthology," a collection of poetry.

Des Plaines River Anthology collects Forest Park history

May 9, 2019 at 4:19 p.m.

In coming up with a fundraising project to benefit the Forest Park Historical Society last year, Augie Aleksy did not have to look far for inspiration: just about 6 feet...

Des Plaines River Anthology collects Forest Park history

December 23, 2018 at 3:47 p.m.

In coming up with a fundraising project to benefit the Forest Park Historical Society last year, Augie Aleksy did not have to look far for inspiration: just about 6 feet...

As she explains in her book "Body Geographic," Barrie Jean Borich has a tattoo on her back that merges the skylines of Chicago and Minneapolis, Minn. Borich lived in Minneapolis for three decades but has returned to Chicago, where she was born, to teach at DePaul University.

Following her inner compass

June 18, 2018 at 10:22 a.m.

Even with the best of maps, you may never know where you're going until you get there. When Barrie Jean Borich came to the end of writing her most recent...

Academy Chicago Publishers, which was recently bought by Chicago Review Press, was founded in 1975 by Jordan and Anita Miller.

Chicago Review Press acquires Academy Chicago Publishers

June 17, 2018 at 5:13 p.m.

On the occasion of its 40 years in publishing, Chicago Review Press recently bought itself an anniversary present: Academy Chicago Publishers, one of the city's oldest independent publishers. The acquisition,...

Actor Alfred Molina at the opening night curtain call for "Fiddler on the Roof" in New York City in 2004.

Review: ‘Wonder of Wonders,’ by Alisa Solomon

May 9, 2019 at 4:14 p.m.

A cultural history of "Fiddler on the Roof": As Tevye the milkman might say, sounds crazy, no? It might have seemed that way at first to author Alisa Solomon, a...

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