Today I launched my new Third Coast Review column, Chicago is Lit, about upcoming author/book events across the city! Featuring PRETTY by KB Brookins (7/2 at Women & Children First), HOMBRECITO by santiago jose sanchez (7/18 at Exile in Bookville) & more! #ChicagoIsLit #Books 🧵 Read it: thirdcoastreview.com/2024/06/28/chi…

“Your Early 20s Are the Demo Tape”: An Interview with Liz Riggs (Liz Riggs) About LO-FI (Riverhead Books) by Rowan Beaird chireviewofbooks.com/2024/07/15/lo-…

a monster unleashed by book publishing

Thank you Simon & Schuster / Atria Books / Primero Sueño for space to bring rich, complex and dark literary fiction from prominent Latin American authors to readers. Thanks to my editor Yezanira Venecia, my literary agent Lane Heymont & Tobias Lit team Ann Rose & Jacqui Lipton

Some really great books out in August!

Nerding out about books is my superpower. Check out Rachel León, Michael Welch and me on the new episode of The Chicago Writers Podcast -- "Best of 2024 (So Far!)" Thanks Dan Finnen for hosting! chicagowriterspodcast.libsyn.com/ep-55-best-of-…

We love talking our favorite books of the year so much we just couldn’t wait this time around!

Tim Walz: The Audacity of Ope

"Chicago, the beach, the sand, the lake, are all living characters in my books, just as they are concepts." Devyn Andrews interviews Danniel Borzutzky about his new poetry collection, "The Murmuring Grief of the Americas" (Coffee House Press) chireviewofbooks.com/2024/08/06/pai…

I’m so thrilled to see this news out in the world! Thank you so much to Kevin Wilson & the Salamander team for believing in this story ❤️

Congratulations to our EIC Michael Welch!

Congratulations, dearest Michael Welch!!

So happy with these amazing news! Congratulations to amazing Michael Welch on winining the Salamander prize, selected by Kevin Wilson !!!

MASSIVE congratulations to Chicago Review of Books editor-in-chief Michael Welch for winning the 2024 Salamander (Salamander) Fiction Contest for his story "Exit Strategies of a Great Squirrel Army." salamandermag.org/salamander-fic…

FYI — I’m starting a reading series. How will it go? I have no clue. I want to bring together a selection of authors from across genres, who I feel are rebellious, pushing boundaries, and are standing firm in who they are — to please no one. They are in service to the art.

"I think I’m always trying to reclaim something, through poetry—words from silences, silences from noise, loam from silt, memory from relics, reliquaries from ruins." Kenzie Allen 🌵 author of Cloud Missives Chicago Review of Books ! chireviewofbooks.com/2024/08/20/you…

PROGRAMMING ALERT! 😊 On Monday, August 26, Programs Director Sara Cutaia Mantzoros 🦕 and Instructor Dionna Griffin-Irons will appear in a segment on WGN's show Spotlight Chicago about our In A Year programs! Tune in (or set to record) between 1 and 2 pm CT!

Truly a stacked month of book releases

We're thrilled to welcome our new Daily Editor Greg Zimmerman to the team!

I’m working on the Great Lakes Anthology for Belt Publishing! I’m looking to assemble a comprehensive picture of living along the Great Lakes, from Duluth to Buffalo and small coastal towns to cities as large as Chicago. If you’re interested, let’s talk!