A happy Thanksgiving Day to all, and I wish the best to all J's Theater readers. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, try to tak...

This weekend I popped by the pop-up Chicago Book Expo , sponsored by the Chicago Writers' House , which took place in what was once a b...

Roberto Sierra Earlier this year I came across a contemporary classical music composer whose music I wasn't previously familiar wit...

"A picture shows me at a glance what it takes dozens of pages of a book to expound." - Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons , 1862 ...

Surfacing finally and temporarily, from the bogs or thickets or trenches, or whatever is lined with pages and pages of prose! Today was the...

Last night, the National Book Award Foundation announced the winners of the 2011 awards in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and young people...

One of the things I've begun to do since becoming a vegetarian that I used not to is more cooking integrating multiple vegetables at on...

The Human Micropoets met up again, this past Friday, on Veterans Day , for another round of HUMAN MICROPOEM public poetry recitation, in...

As part of its exhibit  Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910-1917 (September 23-December 11, 2011), the Mary and Lei...

HAPPY HALLO WEEN! Be safe and have fun if you trick & treat tonight! *** (Since Shakespeare didn't create the word and appare...