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To say that Tracey Goessel is a superfan of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks may still be understating it. She has lectured on Fairbanks widely and has published numerous articles on silent film history. She’s also a major collector of silent film ephemera—she owns, for example, the boots that…
October 21, 2015 • Behind the Scenes
Jerome Pohlen with Open Books volunteer Jennifer Brogan after the October 17 LGBT History Celebration presentation.
Jerome Pohlen is not only a Chicago Review Press acquisitions editor but a treasured author of ours
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Congratulations, Emily! Former marketing intern (and faithful Harry Potter reader) Emily Lewis was just hired as CRP's full-time editorial and marketing assistant. Emily coordinates our staff reads posts, so this seemed like an appropriate place to share the good news.
Now...what has Emily put
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It’s probably the most enduring image of the Spanish-American war, made famous by Frederic Remington’s painting Charge of the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill: Theodore Roosevelt, on horseback, leading the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry regiment in a ragged run up a gentle slope, straight into the o…
Author, journalist, and producer Mick Wall has worked inside the music industry for over 35 years. He's written biographies of Axl Rose, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, and Black Sabbath—and Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre: A Biography of the Doors, released this month in the US (last year in the UK), just
When Michele Weldon’s husband walked out on her family after years of physical and emotional abuse, their three boys were just six, four and one. While Weldon was never able to fix or fully make up for her husband’s absence and brutal behavior, she spent years juggling single motherhood—and, l
Of all the plot twists I’d love to relive for the first time, I think The Fingersmith by Sarah Waters takes the cake. I wa