Review: ...And Ladies of the Club, by Helen Hooven Santmyer
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Poking Holes in Potatoes: An excerpt from Brian Taylor Cohen's book, SHAMELESS
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Finding a book club (in Chicago)
I'm a recent college grad in the Chicago area and was planning to join a book club (preferably classic literature) to meet like-minded people my age. Unfortunately, this wound up being a much more...
I'm a recent college grad in the Chicago area and was planning to join a book club (preferably classic literature) to meet like-minded people my age. Unfortunately, this wound up being a much more difficult task than I expected. Practically all the book clubs I could find online were inactive or had a much older age demographic. Anyone familiar with city have any tips for finding what I'm looking for (a book club or something similar)?
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‘I’ve dealt with anti-hillbilly bigotry all my life’: Barbara Kingsolver on JD Vance, the real Appalachia and why Demon Copperhead was such a hit
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The return of Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Jessica Valenti (Abortion, Every Day) has a book coming out next week
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R.I.P. journalist, editor and counterculture enthusiast, Steve Silberman
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Native American author Tommy Orange selected as the next Future Library writer – will pen a manuscript that won't be published until 2114
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It’s official: These thirteen books are now banned from all public schools in Utah
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Inside the two-year fight to bring charges against school librarians in Granbury, Texas
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Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwritten notes by John Milton
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Queer Liberation Library offers free LGBTQ books in response to wave of US school bans
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Ursula K. Le Guin's home will become a writers residency
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Science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin made Schrödinger’s cat famous
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Romance Writers of America has filed for bankruptcy. What’s next?
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The Controversialist: Marty Peretz and the travails of American liberalism
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Jack Conroy, proletarian author and editor, supported important 20th century US poets
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Paul Auster, the patron saint of literary Brooklyn, dies at 77
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Book ban fight in Nevada would create LGBTQ section of libraries
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Digital books are costing local libraries a ton
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What we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs. US Department of Justice
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US literary magazine retracts Israeli writer’s coexistence essay amid mass resignations
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Idaho libraries must move materials deemed harmful to children, or face lawsuits, under new law
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What resources are available in a modern library?
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Why ban books when you can ban book awards?: Suburban Illinois district cancels youth chosen Caudill Awards
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Sci-fi author Vernor Vinge dead at 79
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Percival Everett can’t be pinned down
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US libraries struggle to afford the demand for e-books and seek new state laws in fight with publishers
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Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson just negotiated higher audio royalties for all audiobooks on Audible
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Police bodycam shows sheriff hunting for 'obscene' books at library
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Ben Shapiro's book is beyond disturbing - True Allegiance review
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Seismic City by Joanna Dyl: an economic class and political history of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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The ambitious plan to open up a treasure trove of Black history
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Edgar Award nominations announced by Mystery Writers of America
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Invisible Ink: At the CIA’s creative writing group
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Someone discovered a new pen name used (probably) by Louisa May Alcott in the 1850s
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How social justice activists lost the plot
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Our favorite outdoor adventure books for every US state
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Houston Public Library launches self-service book kiosk at Hobby Airport
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Ending censorship applies to prison too - US prisons remain the institutions where the most censorship occurs
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Subversive, queer and terrifyingly relevant: six reasons why Moby-Dick is the novel for our times (2019)
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Vanessa Lillie interviews Native American booksellers about their picks for Native American Heritage Month
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UnbanCoolies interview with Ashley Hope Peréz, author of Out of Darkness
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Scholastic to separate books on race, gender and sexuality for US book fairs
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Scholastic Book Fair will discontinue separate collection of race and gender books
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Ohio embraced the ‘science of reading.’ Now a popular reading program is suing.
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Forgotten to return your library book? Don’t worry about it [library fines are falling out of fashion].
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Book bans in Texas spread as new state law takes effect
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Independent bookstores are thriving in Texas, and not just in big cities—in suburbs and in small towns, new shops are serving up classics, cocktails, and community
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The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts
39 votes