Literature
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Fine Line hosts Art Book Sale March 2Feb 25, 2024 10:55 pm - The Fine Line Creative Arts Center in St. Charles is holding a one-day used book sale on Saturday, March 2, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. All the books in the sale will be art...
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Addison Center for the Arts to host fourth annual ‘Expressions: Art and Verse’ exhibitFeb 23, 2024 11:49 pm - The Addison Center for the Arts is hosting its fourth collaboration between visual artists and the Illinois State Poetry Society. Participating poets will read poems ins...
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Book Review: New collaborative novel ‘Fourteen Days’ proves the pandemic couldn’t curb creativity
Feb 23, 2024 10:07 am - Almost four years since COVID-19 became a household term, a new work of fiction proves that even a global pandemic can’t curb creativity. “Fourteen Days” is billed as a “...
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Book review: Melissa Albert’s ‘The Bad Ones’ is a gripping story of friendship and the supernaturalFeb 20, 2024 11:12 am - Melissa Albert’s fifth young adult novel, “The Bad Ones,” is both chilling and heartwarming — a story of limitless friendship clashing with fantastical supernatural power in the cold winter of a little Illinois town.
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EQDG announces ‘One Book, One Town’ March 11-14Feb 17, 2024 7:44 pm - The EQDG and the Downers Grove Public Library invites you to join in the second annual “One Book, One Town — Downers Grove.” This community-wide reading initiative is des...
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Award-winning author visits McHenry High SchoolFeb 15, 2024 6:46 pm - Matt de la Peña, a New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Newbery Medal for his book “Last Stop on Market Street,” never would have imagined he’d be speaking...
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Stephen and Evie McGee Colbert collaborate on cookbook ‘Does This Taste Funny?’
Feb 15, 2024 8:05 am - Stephen Colbert's next book is very much about stirring the pot. Celadon Books announced Thursday that “The Late Show” host and his wife, Evie McGee Colbert, have collaborated on the cookbook “Does This Taste Funny: Recipes Our Family Loves," to be published on Sept. 17.
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Book review: Richard Roper charms and surprises with ‘This Disaster Loves You’
Feb 12, 2024 5:04 pm - Richard Roper, whose debut novel “Something to Live For” (2020) featured a character seeking the aspiration of the title, is back with “This Disaster Loves You,” about an...
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Author, scholar Randal Jelks to give Martin Luther King Jr. lecture Feb. 14Feb 08, 2024 11:54 pm - In February of 2017, Randal Maurice Jelks, an award-winning author, documentary filmmaker and professor at the University of Kansas, came to Elmhurst University to give t...
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Naperville author to be featured at the ‘Twice in a Lifetime’ Eclipse Festival in AprilFeb 08, 2024 11:23 pm - When author Liz Bockelman attended Chester, Illinois’ first “Twice in a Lifetime” eclipse festival in 2017, her friend and lifetime Chester resident Brenda Owen suggeste...