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Feb 3, 2025

Rachel's Recommendations
Favorite 2024: What's Not Mine by Nora Decter
Non-2024 book: Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
2024 book no one read: Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn
Most anticipated 2025 by a Chicago author: Original Sins by Eve L. Ewing
Most anticipated by an author with a long gap since...


Jan 6, 2025

Sara Cutaia joins us to discuss a story from A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD by Jennifer Egan. 

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Dec 2, 2024

YA author James Klise joins the first episode of season two to discuss the first chapter of THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE. 

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Aug 5, 2024

It's a mid-year check in with the Chicago Review of Books! 

Rachel:
Shayla Lawson’s How To Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir
Lindsay Hunter’s Hot Springs Drive
Nora Decter’s What’s Not Mine
Ananda Lima’s Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr!
Gianni Washington’s...


Jul 1, 2024

In this episode, author Claire Lombardo discusses throughlines, visualizing a story, outlining after drafting, pacing, working on multiple projects, and how the second book is the hardest you'll write.
 
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