John Blades

On one of the coldest days of January, Denise DeClue and Tim Kazurinsky could watch the snow pile up outside their office window and thank their lucky stars that they...

For Reginald Gibbons, co-director of TriQuarterly Books, the news that Linda McCarriston`s poetry collection, ''Eva-Mary,'' had been nominated for a National Book Award came as a ''horrible blessing . ....

With America`s entry into the war, U.S. military leaders and their British counterparts began planning an invasion of the European mainland, which Hilter had dominated since the evacuation of the...

Like Camelot, Damon Runyon`s Broadway is a mythical place, mostly remembered for the 1950 musical comedy ''Guys and Dolls,'' and a handful of `30s and `40s movies (''Little Miss Marker,''...

If they hope to be popular with their playmates, small children have to give them a shoulder to cry on. According to a bulletin from the Capable Kid Report, the...

A small but aggressive Chicago publisher thought it had hit the literary big leagues by acquiring the rights to previously uncollected works of Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Cheever. But the...

With 2,500 new taped books expected on the market this year, the audio-only ''bookstore'' is obviously an idea whose time has come. The arrival of Words in Motion in Chicago...

Among Hollywood`s Philip Marlowes, Humphrey Bogart may be the best remembered for ''The Big Sleep'' (1946). But in Robert Parker`s book, Bogart was far from the best. As Parker points...

By narrowing the territory to ''imaginative'' literature (fiction, poetry and drama, as opposed to history, biography, philosophy and economics) we were able to come up with a manageable roster of...

Among the raging bulls of American literature, Ernest Hemingway doesn`t command all the scholarly attention these days. While assembling an edition of James Jones` letters, George Hendrick, an English professor...