December 18, 2009
There is never a bad time to think about and celebrate civil rights. So with that in mind, EPL is highlighting a pair of books as well as a film that all explore the world of the Civil Rights Era in America. Our very own reviewer extraordinaire Barb L. recently reviewed the brand new novel (and one […]
December 18, 2009
I don’t know if you are on Twitter, but this interview with Twitter author of @halfpintingalls may convince you to sign up. Half Pint Ingalls tweets about life from the Little House series as if she is Laura. Here are a few of her tweets to tease you into following: “Why can’t we have one […]
December 12, 2009
Good news for people who like good news: on November 21st, a brand new used book store with a conscience and a mission as large and weighty as your favorite Dickens novel opened for business in the River North neighborhood of Chicago. Open Books is an ongoing, wide-ranging literacy non-profit begun in Chicago in 2006. […]
December 11, 2009
As January 1st rolls around and the first decade of this new century draws to a close, only one thing is certain: best of the decade lists! What better way to bulk up copy in magazines and on websites, fill those awkward holiday dinner table silences with heated arguments, and give us all something to […]
December 11, 2009
Former Chicago librarian Lillian R. New passed away on Tuesday at the age of 98. She was best known to Chicagoans as “Miss Bunny, the Story Lady.” New’s WTTW show, Story Time with Miss Bunny, aired after school during the ‘50s and ‘60s and featured her reading stories to children. Read more about “Miss Bunny” in a […]
December 11, 2009
In 2nd grade, I played the title role in my school’s production of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, an experience that clearly warped me for life. Although I enjoy conspicuous consumption and fatty foods as much as the next person, the enforced jollity of the holidays has always grated on my embittered soul. For those […]
December 4, 2009
Try this odd fact out as a conversation starter. Back in the 1950’s, poet Marianne Moore, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, was asked by the head of Ford’s marketing department to submit possible names for their “e” or “experimental” car due to be released in 1958. One of Ms. Moore’s […]
December 4, 2009
The Red Couch: A Portrait of America by Kevin Clarke & Horst Wackerbarth When most people decide to take to the highways and road trip across the country, the idea is generally to travel fast and light and leave all excess baggage behind you in your asphalt wake. Taking an 8-foot red-velvet couch along for the ride […]
December 1, 2009
Every year during the holiday season, the Morgan Library and Museum in New York exhibits one page of Charles Dickens’s handwritten manuscript of A Christmas Carol. The page is displayed under glass in what was once the library of John Pierpont Morgan. Now, for the first time, the Morgan has allowed The New York Times to […]
November 22, 2009
It’s that time of the year again when the Best of the Year lists covering a motley array of topics are sprinkled throughout the web. Publishers Weekly created quite a stir when its top ten books of the year list was released with an absence of female authors. In response, Women in Letter and Literary […]
