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📚 Bookseller: @roscoebooks.bsky.social 🛠️ Daily Editor: @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social ✍️ Marketing and communications: @storystudiochicago.bsky.social 📝 Book Reviewer: open.substack.com/pub/thenewdorkreviewofbooks Chicagoan. Marquette alum. Runner

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Greg Zimmerman @gregzimmerman.bsky.social · Jul 11

Right on time, here are my six favorite books of 2025...so far.

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The New Dork Review Best Books of 2025...So Far

Here are the six best books of the year so far, says me.

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Greg Zimmerman @gregzimmerman.bsky.social · 14h

Wild that the senile fascist who sent lawless Gestapo goons to kidnap his own citizens didn’t win a peace prize

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 17h

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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Greg Zimmerman @gregzimmerman.bsky.social · 16h

Like the red hat, advocating for AI is an easy way to tell that you’re my enemy.

So hey look, that is ONE thing AI makes easier!

Greg Zimmerman @gregzimmerman.bsky.social · 1d

She got her money’s worth. RIP

Loyola University Chicago @loyolachicago.bsky.social · 1d

Loyola University Chicago is greatly saddened to confirm the death of Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, BVM. This is a tremendous loss of someone who touched the lives of so many people. We appreciate everyone’s thoughts & prayers during this difficult time. For more information: https://bit.ly/4o7eIUk

Greg Zimmerman @gregzimmerman.bsky.social · 1d

How’s your day going? Mine? Well, my 80-year-old mother — who is very good health — just sent me a CAD mockup of her tombstone for “proofreading and approval.”

Greg Zimmerman @gregzimmerman.bsky.social · 1d

Could not agree more!

Greg Zimmerman @gregzimmerman.bsky.social · 1d

Book 60: Kaplan's Plot, by @jasondiamond.bsky.social

You won’t find a more Chicago-ey novel published this year. Highly recommended!

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Kaplan's Plot, by Jason Diamond: A Big-Shouldered Debut

Two Chicago novels in one!

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Greg Zimmerman @gregzimmerman.bsky.social · 1d

Her newsletter "Your Wild and Radiant Mind" is FANTASTIC anyway, so subscribe now -- be inspired AND help the immigrant community.

Greg Zimmerman @gregzimmerman.bsky.social · 1d

Oh this is such an inspiring and kind thing —- when you subscribe for a year to @sarahkokernot.bsky.social's Substack, she’s donating the whole subscription ($30) to the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

Here are the details: substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The World Is Alive And Has Many Things to Tell Us

Supporting Immigrants in Chicago + Finding spiritual resilience in the living world

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Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · Jul 22

Healthcare is a human right

Pass it on

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StoryStudio Chicago @storystudiochicago.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow night (10/9)! Writers on Writing with Sarah Ruhl and @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social happens in-person at the Newberry Library (or livestreamed) -- either way, it's FREE to attend. Grab your spot for this illuminating conversation.

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#writingcommunity

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Greg Zimmerman @gregzimmerman.bsky.social · 2d

Absolute 🔥🔥🔥

#fdt

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmed.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago I just love you so fucking much.

That's it. That's the post.

Goodnight friends. Stay safe.

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Greg Zimmerman @gregzimmerman.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Thomas Pynchon Day to all who celebrate!

Here's a post about SHADOW TICKET, with a very amateurish review of One Battle After Another...

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Thomas Pynchon Is Having A Moment. Let's Have One with Him

Our boy Tommy has gifted us one last crazy caper

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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 3d

"Pynchon delights in verbal acrobatics—from simple turns-of-phrases to full Jazz-age song parodies."

@gregzimmerman.bsky.social's review of “Shadow Ticket” by Thomas Pynchon (@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social) is out now.
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One Last Pynchonian Caper: On "Shadow Ticket" - Chicago Review of Books

Thomas Pynchon would prefer not to be introduced. Which is fine, because by now, on the occasion of the publication of his ninth novel, Shadow Ticket, the 88-year-old famously reclusive writer needs n...

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Greg Zimmerman @gregzimmerman.bsky.social · 3d

Thomas Pynchon Is Having A Moment. Let's Have One with Him

Our boy Tommy has gifted us one last crazy caper

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Greg Zimmerman @gregzimmerman.bsky.social · 4d

Haha. “Please don’t die. I’ll be in a lot of trouble.”

I’ve done some hot/humid races, but never that bad. Kudos to you!

Greg Zimmerman @gregzimmerman.bsky.social · 4d

Shout out to the old guy at the coworking space who is here almost every afternoon doing nothing but watching YouTube (or maybe TikTok) videos with sound full up on his phone.

Retirement seems nice. Zero effs given.

Greg Zimmerman @gregzimmerman.bsky.social · 4d

OH that's brutal! That would've been a DNS (did not start) for me I think lol. And yes of course it's always perfect conditions the next day.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 4d

PSA:

If reading wasn’t political, they wouldn’t be banning books.

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Chicago mag @chicagomag.com · 4d

The @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social announced its 2025 awards shortlist, which includes Tal Rosenberg's feature on the L in trouble

The L in Crisis

With ridership lagging and a fiscal reckoning looming, the L is in trouble. Here’s why our train is worth saving.

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Greg Zimmerman @gregzimmerman.bsky.social · 4d

Actually this isn’t too bad. Looks much better now than last week when it saying 78 and storms.

Greg Zimmerman @gregzimmerman.bsky.social · 4d

I really need to find myself a hobby that the payoff of four months of work isn't dependent on THE WEATHER ON ONE DAY. 😅😂😭

#chicagomarathon

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Greg Zimmerman @gregzimmerman.bsky.social · 5d

Yep. One Battle After Another is very good.

#moviereviews

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StoryStudio Chicago @storystudiochicago.bsky.social · 5d

We know it's Sunday, but make tomorrow a "Monday Funday!" 😎

Sign up for @bcdreyer.social's four-session, online class and learn about "America's Copy Editor's" capacious bag of copyediting tricks (like why "copy editor" is two words, but "copyediting" is one word 😅).

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A Copy Editor’s Guide: Four Lessons on the Art, Craft, and Refinement of Prose, with Benjamin Dreyer - StoryStudio Chicago

Benjamin Dreyer, retired copy chief of Random House and the author of the New York Times bestseller Dreyer’s English, will unpack his capacious bag of tricks, previously secret advice, and all-round…

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Greg Zimmerman @gregzimmerman.bsky.social · 5d

This week is Banned Books Week. One easy thing to do to help fight back is donate to Unite Against Book Bans.

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