Literature
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It’s Banned Books Week. LGBTQ+ content tops the most-challenged list.
Sep 24, 2024 3:05 pm - The attempts to censor, restrict or ban books in 2024 in the United States continued to surpass pre-pandemic levels, while books with LGBTQ+ themes dominate the most-chal...
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Book Review: Crystal King combines food, myths and surrealism with ‘In the Garden of Monsters’
Sep 23, 2024 3:47 pm - Salvador Dali hires a young artist with a striking similarity to the goddess Proserpina to model for him in the Sacro Bosco, a mystical garden almost as surreal as Dali h...
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Stephen & Evie Colbert offer a cookbook that’s also a window into their lives
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Why this book is flying off the shelves at Arlington Heights librarySep 18, 2024 5:47 pm - “The Collected Regrets of Clover” is being checked out at record speed at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library compared to past One Book, One Village selections, officials say.
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Literary connections: A focus on books at this year’s Bluff City Cemetery WalkSep 18, 2024 10:01 am - The 37th annual Bluff City Cemetery Walk on Sept. 21-22 is celebrating the 150th anniversary of Gail Borden Public Library. The Elginites selected have an association to either literacy, books, or Gail Borden. Each portrayal will include suggestions on what that Elginite’s favorite book might have been.
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‘I want it to be an experience’: Independent bookstore to open in downtown LibertyvilleSep 18, 2024 9:08 am - Ingleside native Delanie Dochelli is opening About Time Bookstore in downtown Libertyville to share her passion for reading and books.
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Book Review: Joe Posnanski scores with poignant, informative, hilarious ‘Why We Love Football’
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Book Review: ‘We’re Alone’ by Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat weaves personal and political
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Geneva HS grad publishes debut novel described as a ‘queer rom-com’Sep 13, 2024 3:30 am - Becca Grischow, a 2013 graduate of Geneva High School, launches her writing career with “I’ll Get Back to You,” a novel she describes as a “queer rom-com.”
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Ann and Ben Brashares celebrate their new book for young people, ‘Westfallen,’ at Arlington Heights Memorial LibrarySep 11, 2024 2:31 pm - On Saturday, Sept. 21 at 2 p.m., Ann Brashares, The New York Times-bestselling author of the “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” series, teams up with her brother Ben Brashares to discuss their new middle grade thriller, “Westfallen.