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"[The Osage language] is something that has been in my bones and my blood for decades. I’m so happy to have been able to get it all down on the page."
Elisa Shoenberger's interview with Elise Paschen on "Blood Wolf Moon” (@redhenpress.bsky.social) is out now.
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Elisa Shoenberger's interview with Elise Paschen on "Blood Wolf Moon” (@redhenpress.bsky.social) is out now.
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Osage Family History in Elise Paschen’s Poetry Collection "Blood Wolf Moon" - Chicago Review of Books
We all know what historical fiction is. It’s fiction taking place in a period in the past like Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall or Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring. But what do you call poems that...
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December 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"[The Osage language] is something that has been in my bones and my blood for decades. I’m so happy to have been able to get it all down on the page."
Elisa Shoenberger's interview with Elise Paschen on "Blood Wolf Moon” (@redhenpress.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/15/o...
Elisa Shoenberger's interview with Elise Paschen on "Blood Wolf Moon” (@redhenpress.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/15/o...
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In POETRY, Rob Macaisa Colgate for HARDLY CREATURES (@tinhouse.bsky.social)!!!
December 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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It only makes sense that the best city in the world has the best community of writers
We had such a fabulous time at the CHIRBys last night... And if there’s one thing we agree on, it’s that Chicago has the BEST literary community in the country!!!
@tvayyyy.bsky.social @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social @samiraahmed.bsky.social @eveewing.bsky.social @mbwwelch.bsky.social
@tvayyyy.bsky.social @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social @samiraahmed.bsky.social @eveewing.bsky.social @mbwwelch.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
It only makes sense that the best city in the world has the best community of writers
We had such a fabulous time at the CHIRBys last night... And if there’s one thing we agree on, it’s that Chicago has the BEST literary community in the country!!!
@tvayyyy.bsky.social @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social @samiraahmed.bsky.social @eveewing.bsky.social @mbwwelch.bsky.social
@tvayyyy.bsky.social @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social @samiraahmed.bsky.social @eveewing.bsky.social @mbwwelch.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
We had such a fabulous time at the CHIRBys last night... And if there’s one thing we agree on, it’s that Chicago has the BEST literary community in the country!!!
@tvayyyy.bsky.social @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social @samiraahmed.bsky.social @eveewing.bsky.social @mbwwelch.bsky.social
@tvayyyy.bsky.social @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social @samiraahmed.bsky.social @eveewing.bsky.social @mbwwelch.bsky.social
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Stunned and honored to have received the 10th Annual Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction. The CHIRBys are a special event, a truly Chicago moment.Thank you @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social and all the readers, writers, judges, supporters, and members of this extraordinary community.
December 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Stunned and honored to have received the 10th Annual Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction. The CHIRBys are a special event, a truly Chicago moment.Thank you @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social and all the readers, writers, judges, supporters, and members of this extraordinary community.
"I feel that my job is to honor the archive as closely as possible."
Ryan Asmussen's interview with @akasomeguy.bsky.social on "His Toy, His Dream, His Rest” (@fsgbooks.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/12/e...
Ryan Asmussen's interview with @akasomeguy.bsky.social on "His Toy, His Dream, His Rest” (@fsgbooks.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/12/e...
Epical American: John Berryman and his Dream Songs – An Interview with Shane McCrae - Chicago Review of Books
An interview with Shane McCrae about editing a new collection of John Berryman's poetry, "Only Sing."
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December 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"I feel that my job is to honor the archive as closely as possible."
Ryan Asmussen's interview with @akasomeguy.bsky.social on "His Toy, His Dream, His Rest” (@fsgbooks.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/12/e...
Ryan Asmussen's interview with @akasomeguy.bsky.social on "His Toy, His Dream, His Rest” (@fsgbooks.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/12/e...
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December 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This is your ONE WEEK warning. Pub Crawl Early Bird Registration ends next Wednesday 12/17 at midnight. Save $50 for the next week on the ORIGINAL online month-long publishing intensive.
Register now, and learn, pitch, publish with us! buff.ly/RB4SuzP
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Congratulations to tonight's 2025 Chicago Review of Books Award winners!
December 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Congratulations to tonight's 2025 Chicago Review of Books Award winners!
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This speech was 🔥🔥🔥🔥, I hope the whole thing becomes available!
"We are going to continue to read. And we are going to continue to write. And we are going to win." --Samira Ahmed, accepting tonight's Adam Morgan Literary Leadership Award winner for her work with @authorsabb.bsky.social.
December 12, 2025 at 5:05 AM
This speech was 🔥🔥🔥🔥, I hope the whole thing becomes available!
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“We read books and we can imagine a world as how it should be.”
—Samira Ahmed
—Samira Ahmed
Congratulations to tonight's 2025 Chicago Review of Books Award winners!
December 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
“We read books and we can imagine a world as how it should be.”
—Samira Ahmed
—Samira Ahmed
We're so excited to announce the winners of the 2025 CHIRBy awards...🥁🥁🥁
December 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
We're so excited to announce the winners of the 2025 CHIRBy awards...🥁🥁🥁
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A great night at the CHIRBy Awards!
Thanks to my dates @raforall.bsky.social & my kiddo.
Congratulations to Ted on your Fiction Award win! A joy to share a category with you!
Chicago is the greatest literary city, with the best literary community, in the country.
@chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
Thanks to my dates @raforall.bsky.social & my kiddo.
Congratulations to Ted on your Fiction Award win! A joy to share a category with you!
Chicago is the greatest literary city, with the best literary community, in the country.
@chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
A great night at the CHIRBy Awards!
Thanks to my dates @raforall.bsky.social & my kiddo.
Congratulations to Ted on your Fiction Award win! A joy to share a category with you!
Chicago is the greatest literary city, with the best literary community, in the country.
@chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
Thanks to my dates @raforall.bsky.social & my kiddo.
Congratulations to Ted on your Fiction Award win! A joy to share a category with you!
Chicago is the greatest literary city, with the best literary community, in the country.
@chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
"The sort of book best used in a university course, or for academic research into anarchist movements."
Philip Janowski's review of “Johann Most: Life of a Radical” by Tom Goyens (@illinoispress.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/11/j...
Philip Janowski's review of “Johann Most: Life of a Radical” by Tom Goyens (@illinoispress.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/11/j...
The Autonomous Anarchist in “Johann Most: Life of a Radical” - Chicago Review of Books
Our review of Tom Goyens' new book, "Johann Most: Life of a Radical."
chireviewofbooks.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"The sort of book best used in a university course, or for academic research into anarchist movements."
Philip Janowski's review of “Johann Most: Life of a Radical” by Tom Goyens (@illinoispress.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/11/j...
Philip Janowski's review of “Johann Most: Life of a Radical” by Tom Goyens (@illinoispress.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/11/j...
"Her writing seems to see into this future, playing with the in-between, ambiguous, and fog."
Leah von Essen's review of “The Week of Colors” by Elena Garro, translated by Megan McDowell (@twolinespress.com) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/10/t...
Leah von Essen's review of “The Week of Colors” by Elena Garro, translated by Megan McDowell (@twolinespress.com) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/10/t...
Traitorous Magic in Garro's "The Week of Colors" - Chicago Review of Books
Elena Garro wrote among the milieu of Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Gabriel García Márquez. An early crucial figure in the then-burgeoning genre of magical realism, her works have gone u...
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December 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"Her writing seems to see into this future, playing with the in-between, ambiguous, and fog."
Leah von Essen's review of “The Week of Colors” by Elena Garro, translated by Megan McDowell (@twolinespress.com) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/10/t...
Leah von Essen's review of “The Week of Colors” by Elena Garro, translated by Megan McDowell (@twolinespress.com) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/10/t...
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"Margaret is in many ways emblematic of Chicago’s literary community today and what makes it wonderful."
Huge thanks to @mbwwelch.bsky.social for this full circle moment a few weeks before the 10-year anniversary of @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/09/e...
Huge thanks to @mbwwelch.bsky.social for this full circle moment a few weeks before the 10-year anniversary of @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/09/e...
"Emblematic of Chicago's Literary Community Today": Adam Morgan on Literary Pioneer Margaret C. Anderson - Chicago Review of Books
IIn Chicago, you can feel the weight of history everywhere. The architecture bears the marks of a great fire. The city meets at the intersection of an ancient glacial lake and a river that once flowed...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"Margaret is in many ways emblematic of Chicago’s literary community today and what makes it wonderful."
Huge thanks to @mbwwelch.bsky.social for this full circle moment a few weeks before the 10-year anniversary of @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/09/e...
Huge thanks to @mbwwelch.bsky.social for this full circle moment a few weeks before the 10-year anniversary of @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/09/e...
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My first book pubs today, and among other things it is a love letter to Chicago — the city and the communities that have been a tenth muse for me.
Margaret C. Anderson's story is also, I hope, a reminder that good art requires taking big risks.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Dang...
Margaret C. Anderson's story is also, I hope, a reminder that good art requires taking big risks.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Dang...
December 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My first book pubs today, and among other things it is a love letter to Chicago — the city and the communities that have been a tenth muse for me.
Margaret C. Anderson's story is also, I hope, a reminder that good art requires taking big risks.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Dang...
Margaret C. Anderson's story is also, I hope, a reminder that good art requires taking big risks.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Dang...
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Happy pub day @adamm0rgan.bsky.social!
"Something valuable in her story is just to take more chances, take more risks, take big swings."
@mbwwelch.bsky.social's interview with @adamm0rgan.bsky.social on his new book "A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls” (@atriabooks.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/09/e...
@mbwwelch.bsky.social's interview with @adamm0rgan.bsky.social on his new book "A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls” (@atriabooks.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/09/e...
"Emblematic of Chicago's Literary Community Today": Adam Morgan on Literary Pioneer Margaret C. Anderson - Chicago Review of Books
IIn Chicago, you can feel the weight of history everywhere. The architecture bears the marks of a great fire. The city meets at the intersection of an ancient glacial lake and a river that once flowed...
chireviewofbooks.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Happy pub day @adamm0rgan.bsky.social!
"Something valuable in her story is just to take more chances, take more risks, take big swings."
@mbwwelch.bsky.social's interview with @adamm0rgan.bsky.social on his new book "A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls” (@atriabooks.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/09/e...
@mbwwelch.bsky.social's interview with @adamm0rgan.bsky.social on his new book "A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls” (@atriabooks.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/09/e...
"Emblematic of Chicago's Literary Community Today": Adam Morgan on Literary Pioneer Margaret C. Anderson - Chicago Review of Books
IIn Chicago, you can feel the weight of history everywhere. The architecture bears the marks of a great fire. The city meets at the intersection of an ancient glacial lake and a river that once flowed...
chireviewofbooks.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"Something valuable in her story is just to take more chances, take more risks, take big swings."
@mbwwelch.bsky.social's interview with @adamm0rgan.bsky.social on his new book "A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls” (@atriabooks.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/09/e...
@mbwwelch.bsky.social's interview with @adamm0rgan.bsky.social on his new book "A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls” (@atriabooks.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/09/e...
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Excited to be in the room when Literary Chicago cheers, hoots, and hollers to celebrate award winners...and our writing community. @mbwwelch.bsky.social wrote a beautiful piece on the 10th CHIRBy Awards!
A City Where Words Breathe: shorturl.at/hnljZ
@storystudiochicago.bsky.social #literarychi
A City Where Words Breathe: shorturl.at/hnljZ
@storystudiochicago.bsky.social #literarychi
A City Where Words Breathe: On Celebrating 10 Years of the CHIRBy Awards - Chicago Review of Books
I arrived late to my first Chicago Review of Books Awards in 2019. I was a new editor on the team then, nervous and uncertain about how early to arrive for the ceremony and lost between the awfully na...
chireviewofbooks.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Excited to be in the room when Literary Chicago cheers, hoots, and hollers to celebrate award winners...and our writing community. @mbwwelch.bsky.social wrote a beautiful piece on the 10th CHIRBy Awards!
A City Where Words Breathe: shorturl.at/hnljZ
@storystudiochicago.bsky.social #literarychi
A City Where Words Breathe: shorturl.at/hnljZ
@storystudiochicago.bsky.social #literarychi
"A once in a lifetime literary giant that you should try to read as much as you can."
Maddie Schultz's review of “House of Day, House of Night” by Olga Tokarczuk (@riverheadbooks.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/09/i...
Maddie Schultz's review of “House of Day, House of Night” by Olga Tokarczuk (@riverheadbooks.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/09/i...
In the "House of Day, House of Night", a Review on the Latest Tokarczuk - Chicago Review of Books
In dreary skies and through turbulent dreamscapes comes House of Day, House of Night, the latest English language addition of the iconic Olga Tokarczuk’s oeuvre. I selected this book to review to soot...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"A once in a lifetime literary giant that you should try to read as much as you can."
Maddie Schultz's review of “House of Day, House of Night” by Olga Tokarczuk (@riverheadbooks.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/09/i...
Maddie Schultz's review of “House of Day, House of Night” by Olga Tokarczuk (@riverheadbooks.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/09/i...
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My first book pubs tomorrow. Today I'm grateful for this thoughtful column on one of its themes — "the relevance of the enthusiasm of youth" in literature and art — by the Chicago artist Dmitry Samarov. zonamotel.substack.com/p/art-in-its...
COLUMN: Art in its Own Terms #7: A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls
On Adam Morgan's biography of Margaret Anderson and literary community in Chicago
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December 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
My first book pubs tomorrow. Today I'm grateful for this thoughtful column on one of its themes — "the relevance of the enthusiasm of youth" in literature and art — by the Chicago artist Dmitry Samarov. zonamotel.substack.com/p/art-in-its...
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I knew Adam as a student before he founded @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social and became one of the city's most committed literary citizens. His first book, on Margaret C. Anderson, continues that work, and I'm frankly thrilled to read it. Strikes me as a hell of a gift, too:
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December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I knew Adam as a student before he founded @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social and became one of the city's most committed literary citizens. His first book, on Margaret C. Anderson, continues that work, and I'm frankly thrilled to read it. Strikes me as a hell of a gift, too:
bookshop.org/p/books/a-da...
bookshop.org/p/books/a-da...
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If you weren't already looking forward to the CHIRBys this week, this incredible essay by @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social editor-in-chief @mbwwelch.bsky.social will certainly get you fired up -- not just for the awards, but all things Chicago writing!
buff.ly/93L3Slo
#hooraychicago!
buff.ly/93L3Slo
#hooraychicago!
A City Where Words Breathe: On Celebrating 10 Years of the CHIRBy Awards - Chicago Review of Books
I arrived late to my first Chicago Review of Books Awards in 2019. I was a new editor on the team then, nervous and uncertain about how early to arrive for the ceremony and lost between the awfully…
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December 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
If you weren't already looking forward to the CHIRBys this week, this incredible essay by @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social editor-in-chief @mbwwelch.bsky.social will certainly get you fired up -- not just for the awards, but all things Chicago writing!
buff.ly/93L3Slo
#hooraychicago!
buff.ly/93L3Slo
#hooraychicago!
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To celebrate the 10 years of the Chicago Review of Books Awards, I wrote about what the awards meant to me when I was trying to find my community after returning home
"More than anything, I craved community. I wanted to be a Chicagoan and a writer, but mostly a Chicago writer."
@mbwwelch.bsky.social's "A City Where Words Breathe," a lovely reflection on 10 years of the CHIRBys, is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/08/a...
@mbwwelch.bsky.social's "A City Where Words Breathe," a lovely reflection on 10 years of the CHIRBys, is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/08/a...
A City Where Words Breathe: On Celebrating 10 Years of the CHIRBy Awards - Chicago Review of Books
I arrived late to my first Chicago Review of Books Awards in 2019. I was a new editor on the team then, nervous and uncertain about how early to arrive for the ceremony and lost between the awfully na...
chireviewofbooks.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
To celebrate the 10 years of the Chicago Review of Books Awards, I wrote about what the awards meant to me when I was trying to find my community after returning home
"More than anything, I craved community. I wanted to be a Chicagoan and a writer, but mostly a Chicago writer."
@mbwwelch.bsky.social's "A City Where Words Breathe," a lovely reflection on 10 years of the CHIRBys, is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/08/a...
@mbwwelch.bsky.social's "A City Where Words Breathe," a lovely reflection on 10 years of the CHIRBys, is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/08/a...
A City Where Words Breathe: On Celebrating 10 Years of the CHIRBy Awards - Chicago Review of Books
I arrived late to my first Chicago Review of Books Awards in 2019. I was a new editor on the team then, nervous and uncertain about how early to arrive for the ceremony and lost between the awfully na...
chireviewofbooks.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"More than anything, I craved community. I wanted to be a Chicagoan and a writer, but mostly a Chicago writer."
@mbwwelch.bsky.social's "A City Where Words Breathe," a lovely reflection on 10 years of the CHIRBys, is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/08/a...
@mbwwelch.bsky.social's "A City Where Words Breathe," a lovely reflection on 10 years of the CHIRBys, is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/08/a...