What do you do after writing the bestselling memoir of all time, a book that sent you on a totally unprecedented stadium tour of book events and still sits comfortably on… Read more »

Celebrated rapper and Chicagoan Chance the Rapper has just purchased the defunct Chicagoist, according to Robert Channick at the Chicago Tribune. The local news and culture site was once owned… Read more »

Following the election of The Boss Baby, Locofo Chaps, an imprint of the Indiana-based poetry press Moria Books, made the decision to get Donald Trump’s first hundred days down in writing… Read more »

Back in a more innocent time—August of 2016—John Oliver did a story on the importance of local media. He talked about what would happen when news outlets discovered that posting… Read more »

As we near the symbolic hundredth day of our new administration, we can all relax as everything seems to be proceeding normally, and the gears of power are turning as if they… Read more »

Not long ago, our own Simon Reichley pointed out that, as dismal as employment prospects in book publishing may appear, they’re rosy compared to the way U.S. newspapers have been hemorrhaging employees for the… Read more »

Actor Henry Winkler spent his Valentine’s Day visiting Chicago-area schools to read from his popular children’s books and talk about literacy, Stephanie K. Baer reports for the Chicago Tribune. Along… Read more »

Kristy Kennedy reported for the Chicago Tribune yesterday that a group of parents in the Indian Prairie School District (in the Chicago suburbs) have taken up arms over a menace… Read more »