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November 9, 2012
This month for Poetry 365 we’re featuring the lyrical debut of Rowan Ricardo Phillips. In The Ground, the Stony Brook University professor meditates on both the beautiful and ugly of post-9/11 New York City in 44 poems of “fiery intelligence and inescapable music.” Reminiscent of the work of Derek Walcott, Wallace Stevens, and Rita Dove, […]
November 6, 2012
Julia Keller will interview Michael Connelly downtown through the Printers Row program on Nov. 28 at 7PM. There is an admission fee. The bestselling crime writer of the Harry Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer novels is coming out with a new book this month, The Black Box. Shira S.
November 1, 2012
We are very happy to introduce local painter and teacher Peggy Magee as the next artist in our ongoing exhibition series Local Art @ EPL. From now through the end of November, nearly two dozen of her vibrant watercolors will be on display on the 2nd floor of EPL’s Main Branch. You can preview Ms. […]
October 31, 2012
EPL teen services staffer Jarrett Dapier has an interview with public school advocate Jonathan Kozol in the current issue of In These Times magazine. Kozol has published over 10 books in 40 years covering the lives of children in some of our nation’s poorest neighborhoods, the challenges facing teachers, and the awful learning conditions in […]
October 30, 2012
Librarians at the Valparaiso Library found a gun inside a donated hollowed-out book! It appears to be an antique and there is no word who left it, or, as I was wondering, if the gun was loaded. Some books pack more of a wallop than others… Shira S.
October 29, 2012
A previously unpublished 200 page poem of JRRTolkien’s will be made public May 2013 after the release of a new movie trilogy based on The Hobbit. The author’s son, Christopher, is the editor and executor of his father’s estate and has decided to share ‘The Fall of Arthur’ with the world. Shira S.
October 27, 2012
Okay, okay, we get the picture. Vampires and zombies… they’re pretty scary. What with their blood sucking and flesh feasting, glamoring and lurching, death defying and multiplying it’s really no wonder they’ve cornered the market in creepy. But if variety is truly the spice of the afterlife, at this point you’re likely dying for something […]
October 26, 2012
Markus Zusak’s best-selling novel The Book Thief was Chicago Public Library’s One Book One Chicago selection this Fall. And now it’s been adaptated for the stage by Heidi Stillman and is being performed at Steppenwolf Theater (performances run through November 11). Set in Nazi Germany and narrated by Death, the story follows the fate of […]
October 25, 2012
I have a soft spot in my heart for Arthur Conan Doyle. My son was a reluctant reader as a kid, but when he and his dad started reading the Sherlock Holmes stories together, I suddenly found myself with a new problem: how to get the kid to turn off the light and get some […]
October 19, 2012
Zadie Smith’s latest acclaimed novel hit library shelves on September 4th and demand for a copy instantly hit fever pitch. Titled NW, the British writer’s first novel since 2005’s On Beauty tells the captivating story of four North West Londoners struggling to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the housing project of their youth. Written […]
