Recent books published by alumni of StoryStudio Chicago’s In a Year programs This week StoryStudio Chicago kicked off its third annual Pub Crawl , a month-long online publishing intensive, or program, of classes and panels demystifying the publishing world. The intensive includes advice from established authors, agents, and editors. The local literary nonprofit has supported […]
Angela Lewis Through her acclaimed novels “How Should a Person Be?,” “Motherhood” and “Pure Colour,” Sheila Heti has blended the autobiographical and the fictitious in the pursuit of truth. Her newest book, “ Alphabetical Diaries ,” out Feb. 6 via Farrar, Straus and Giroux, conjures magic out of a wild exercise: Heti took a decade […]
The writer-director Molly Manning Walker perched on a stool at the Bushwick bar Mood Ring the other night, trying to talk her way out of doing karaoke. “I’m not a singer,” she said, apologetically, after the bartender encouraged her to make an attempt. “I’m pretty tone-deaf.” Growing up in London, in the two-thousands, she’d filmed […]
“A Saint Reading,” circa 1470Credit…Bartolomeo Vivarini Hold your breath/Make a wish/Count to three/Come with me and you’ll be/In a world of pure imagination. Instead of touring a surreal chocolate manufacturer today, we’re wishing ourselves to someplace much realer and saltier, which is … Italy! I was fortunate enough to travel to lovely Parma last month […]
