Chicago Review of Books Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Ron Shelton’s writing voice is clear and good-humored... the book embodies the vintage wistfulness and romance that the film Bull Durham continues to represent. ICYMI, our review of "The Church of Baseball" (@AAKnopf) https://t.co/W4FfZAo4Sd

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HUGE CONGRATS to @StoryStudio Storyboard Faculty member @ingrid_rojas_c's memoir THE MAN WHO COULD MOVE CLOUDS, which was included on the @nationalbook's 2022 Nonfiction Longlist! https://t.co/w37ZmRj2XA

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REVIEW: Corporate Greed and Irresponsibility in “Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe" by Keith O’Brien, out now from @PantheonBooks Reviewed by @DanaDunham1 https://t.co/KJOqHItbad

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As far as love triangles go, the one in Lillian Fishman’s debut novel "Acts of Service" (@HogarthBooks) is a perfectly messy inquiry into the nature of power and desire. Reviewed by #JoeStanek https://t.co/51fFoTGLf2

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Reading these poems often feels like entering into an intimate conversation with the author, creating an invitation to listen, connect, and topple the stigma around people living with mental illness.

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In Leigh Newman's “Nobody Gets Out Alive" (@ScribnerBooks), Alaska is a place of extremes: geography, isolation, weather—even daylight, and these extremes sit at the center of this compelling new story collection. by @IanMacAllen https://t.co/spMtHpf3T5

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"In the face of the shrill and hateful sound of humanity eating itself, let us remember to praise small stories, the fleeting moment of the unheroic individual." @RyanAsmussen talks with Patrick deWitt about his new novel "The Librarianist" (@eccobooks) https://t.co/KH50HQcSEm

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in FICTION: Jessamine Chan's "School for Good Mothers" (@simonschuster), Jennifer Close's "Marrying the Ketchups' (@AAKnopf), Adam Langer's "Cyclorama" (@BloomsburyPub), Adam Levin's "Mount Chicago" (@doubledaybooks), Toya Wolfe's "Last Summer on State Street" (@WmMorrowBooks)

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Kerri Ní Dochartaigh recognizes the absurdity of borders created to divide people from another — in the natural world, she is able to cast away mankind’s definitions of land and feel a sense of autonomy. "Thin Places" reviewed by #ChristinaObolenskaya https://t.co/1HDtK6uaTP

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"The Light Room," (@riverheadbooks) Kate Zambreno's latest mode-warping work of memoir, chronicles the writer's attempts at maternal insulation—both from the virus and the insistently recurrent periods of isolation it causes. by @ellie_eberlee https://t.co/cAwHoFOFGe