What Dave Eggers wishes he had known when he was young and cool
With his new novel "Contrapposto," Dave Eggers writes about being young, an art student and in love with art.
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David Sedaris on writing: AI doesn’t scare him but New Yorker copy editors do
David Sedaris realized he wanted to write for a living and read his stories to live audiences while he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of...
Evanston’s prolific horror novelist Daniel Kraus wins Pulitzer for fiction
He found out on Monday, like everyone else. The Pulitzer committee described "Angel Down" as “a breathless novel of World War I, a stylistic tour-de-force that blends such genres as...
Shelby Van Pelt wrote the octopus book ‘Bright Creatures,’ and it keeps pulling her back
The author, who lives in Wheaton, has a new challenge now that “Remarkably Bright Creatures" is a Netflix movie starring Sally Field: Escaping its popularity long enough to write a...
Whatever happened to the revolution? Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s new memoir confronts his notorious Chicago parents.
“Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young” is Zayd Ayers Dohrn's remarkable memoir confronting his parents, Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground.
Column: A K-pop newbie went to TWICE, and here are a few thoughts
About 90 million K-pop albums were sold last year but plenty of, ahem, older music fans are still unfamiliar. One of them went to the United Center on Monday night.
Review: Bob Dylan was at the Genesee Theatre, singing songs with ghosts
These days, his “Rough and Rowdy Ways" tour takes him to towns like Waukegan, where he favors theaters with a couple of thousand seats. His audiences know not to expect...
Do you speak geek? Translating the many languages of C2E2.
Learning the lingo behind all the different fan cultures can feel overwhelming at the annual comic expo. But as a dungeon master explained to me, "Once you learn the language,...
Make a note: Stationery is booming as we seek out more analog experiences
Stationerycore, as many call the culture, is having its moment, with devotees flocking to events such as the recent Chicago Stationery Festival in Ravenswood.
The Hideout is sold to a new owner, who pledges to keep it the same old Hideout
The new owner is Teri O’Brien, a former employee. She says she doesn’t plan to change a thing about the Hideout, which has long nurtured an eclectic mix of country...