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Showing posts with label Chicago setting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicago setting. Show all posts
Thursday, January 29, 2026

THE MIDNIGHT CAROUSEL, debut magical novel of loss, grief, and redemption

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THE MIDNIGHT CAROUSEL FIZA SAEED McLYNN Park Row / Harlequin ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $17.99 paperback, available now Rat...
Friday, July 25, 2025

THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD, second bite of the apple for a story I neglected in 2014

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THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD BILL HILLMANN Tortoise Books ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $9.99 ebook, available now Rating: 3.75* of fi...
Friday, February 25, 2022

THE MAN WHO LIVED UNDERGROUND, decades lost in drawers because white people

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THE MAN WHO LIVED UNDERGROUND RICHARD WRIGHT Library of America $19.95 all editions, available now Rating: 5* of five The Publisher...
Friday, October 8, 2021

THE CITY BEAUTIFUL, atmospheric horror-adjacent QUILTBAG fiction aimed at older teens

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THE CITY BEAUTIFUL ADEN POLYDOROS Inkyard Press ( non-affiliate Amazon link) $9.99 ebook editions, available now FINALIST FOR THE 3...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

CALM SEA AND PROSPEROUS VOYAGE, collected stories of a neglected Chicago woman author

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CALM SEA AND PROSPEROUS VOYAGE: The Selected Stories of Bette Howland BETTE HOWLAND A Public Space Books $26.00 hardcover, available now...
Monday, August 12, 2019

MAGGIE BROWN & OTHERS: Stories from the height-of-his-powers observer of Jewishness, Peter Orner

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MAGGIE BROWN & OTHERS: Stories PETER ORNER Little, Brown $27.00 hardcover, available now Rating: 4.5* of five The Publisher Says...
Saturday, August 10, 2019

THE DISPATCHER, a Scalzi novella that NEEDS to be filmed ASAP

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THE DISPATCHER JOHN SCALZI Subterranean Press $5.99 eBook platforms, available now This was a Kindleborrow from my friend Roni. Thanks...
Monday, May 13, 2019

THE HANGED MAN'S GHOST, first in a paranormal mystery series enhanced by bisexual male lead

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THE HANGED MAN'S GHOST MISSOURI DALTON Self-published $4.99 Kindle edition, available now Rating: three fat stars of five The Pu...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

THE STONE, first in an Irish-mythology infused urban fantasy series starring two gay men

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THE STONE SEB L. CARTER (Lockstone #1) Wolfline Publishing ( non-affiliate Amazon link) $4.99 Kindle edition, available now Rating...
Wednesday, March 8, 2017

JOAN MITCHELL: LADY PAINTER, though painter she was lady she most assuredly was not

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JOAN MITCHELL: LADY PAINTER PATRICIA ALBERS Alfred A. Knopf $21.99 Kindle edition, available now Rating: 4* of five The Publisher Say...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

WANTED: ELEVATOR MAN, Joseph G. Peterson's words of comfort for modern young men

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WANTED: ELEVATOR MAN JOSEPH G. PETERSON Switchgrass Books (dist. Cornell University Press) ( non-affiliate Amazon link) $14.00 trade ...
Monday, October 28, 2013

FOLLOWING TOMMY by Bob Hartley, review posted 28 October 2013

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FOLLOWING TOMMY BOB HARTLEY Out of Print ; various prices from multiple sellers Rating: 3.5* of five The Publisher Says : FOLLOWING T...