The Right Way to Meet in Real Life
July 26, 2017 – from Chicago Reader
Two interviews, one by and one about Megan Stielstra, were featured in the Chicago Reader in late July.
2017 News
July
June
Novel of Grief and Politics in West Papua
June 13, 2017
English Ph.D. Candidate Bonnie Etherington's debut novel, The Earth Cries Out, offers a rare glimpse into grief and politics in West Papua.
Nationalists take a beating in Britain — and could be in decline here
June 9, 2017
Chris Lane's invited op-ed in the Chicago Sun-Times considers the meaning and consequences of the June 8th, 2017 British general election (read more)
May
2017 Lit 50
May 25, 2017
Rachel Webster was one of the authors included in NewCity's 2017 Lit 50, the list of "Who Really Books In Chicago"
February
"Lose Yourself in Paul Bowles's 1959 Morocco Tapes"
February 9, 2017 – from KCRW for the Curious
On the 2016 season opener for The Organist, an arts and culture podcast from McSweeney's and KCRW, Brian Edwards discusses Paul Bowles’s little known recordings of Moroccan folk music, recently released as a box set. Bowles, the author of the 1949 novel "The Sheltering Sky,” died in 1999 in Morocco where he’d lived for a half century. Edwards is working on a new book on Bowles, whom he knew in Tangier in the 1990s.