Literature
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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?’
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Book review: Richard Roper charms and surprises with ‘This Disaster Loves You’
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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...
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Book review: ‘Almost Surely Dead’ is a smart supernatural thriller for a stormy nightFeb 06, 2024 9:42 am - In her third novel, “Almost Surely Dead,” Amina Akhtar departs from trends and fashion to sink deep into a missing-person mystery with humorous cynicism and an increasingly creepy edge.