A set of first editions of Shakespeare’s plays could fetch $6 million at auction
A set of the first four editions of William Shakespeare’s collected works is expected to...
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Clarendon Hills native shares stories of growing up during the 1950s in ‘One Stop West of Hinsdale’
Valerie Kuhn Reid’s book is about the childhood turbulence she experienced while living in Clarendon...
Book publishers see surging interest in the US Constitution and print new editions
On Wednesday, Random House announced that it would publish a hardcover book in July combining...
Column: Chicago has long been a place for book lovers, and book sellers
This coming Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day. Should you need some reasons to participate, we...
Biblioracle: David Szalay’s novel ‘Flesh’ has an approach I wouldn’t have thought would work
What's most fascinating to me as a reader is that Szalay has deliberately removed one...
Biblioracle: Joe Dunthorne explores his family’s history in ‘Children of Radium’
Joe Dunthorne unravels the story of his great-grandfather Siegfried Merzbacher, a German Jewish chemist who...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘The Big Four’
The Lake Forest women F. Scott Fitzgerald met when they were teenagers and whose inspiration...
Cynthia Pelayo blends horror and Chicago history in ‘Vanishing Daughters’ — including legend of Resurrection Mary
Cynthia Pelayo just wrote a novel weaving together a serial killer, the 1893 World’s Columbian...
Chicago’s connection to ‘The Great Gatsby’ as Fitzgerald’s novel turns 100
F. Scott Fitzgerald's romance with a North Shore debutante provided fodder for "The Great Gatsby,"...
Biblioracle: ‘Fleetwood Mac All the Songs’ is my kind of coffee table book
When I found out that there is a 608-page book titled “Fleetwood Mac All the...