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October 31, 2018

Scariest part of the writing process »

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In honor of Halloween, we asked a few of our authors about the scariest part of the writing process. Check out their spooky answers below!

The entire process is terrifying, from writing your lede to worrying about your facts to clearing quotes to hitting “send” on your final draft. But the mo…

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October 22, 2018

The Blonde on Blonde Fab Five »

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The Blonde on Blonde Fab Five


By Daryl Sanders, author of That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound: Dylan, Nashville, and the Making of Blonde on Blonde


When Chicago Review Press asked if I would a contribute a piece to the CRP blog about my five favorite tracks from the 1966 Bob Dylan album Blonde on Blond



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October 15, 2018

Author Bob Burns discusses his newest book on the 1968 US men’s Olympic track and field team and modern activism »

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Almost 50 years ago today, Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in solidarity with the black power movement, one of the most iconic moments in sports activism. Bob Burns’s book The Track in the Forest: The Creation of a Legendary 1968 US Olympic Team describes how the 1968 US men’s Ol…

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September 10, 2018

Creating “Pictures in Sound” with Sir George Martin »

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Creating “Pictures in Sound” with Sir George Martin

By Ken Womack, author of Sound Pictures

For George Martin, the illustrious producer behind the Beatles’ unparalleled achievements in popular music, the recording studio emerged as a kind of magic workshop where sound could be transforme…

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September 5, 2018

Dorothy Carvello, the first woman A&R executive at Atlantic Records, says #MeToo in shocking new memoir »

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9780912777917Dorothy Carvello began her career in 1987 at Atlantic Records as the assistant to founder and president Ahmet Ertegun. She went on to work for many of the biggest names in music—Morris, Azoff, Galante, Buziak and Ienner—at Atlantic, Giant, RCA, Relativity and Columbia. Her no-holds-barred memoir…

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May 24, 2017

From the World’s Largest Toilet to Ralphie’s house from A Christmas Story—counting down the top ten sites in Oddball Indiana »

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With summer vacation just around the corner, we asked Jerome Pohlen, author of the Oddball travel series, to share 10 of his favorite sites featured in his latest book, Oddball Indiana:

1. ODIN-Loogootee-Bird House Yard, Bill Larkin1. Bill’s Yard (Loogootee): Bill Larkin has painted and mounted 4,000 birdhouses in his backyard, and 2,000 m…

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April 26, 2017

Bruce Kading talks keeping his fiction true to life, his experience working for the INS, and what book is on his nightstand »

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Bruce_Kading_Author_PhotoMiguel’s Gift details the rise of rookie immigration officer Nick Hayden, who must find an informant to access the inner circle of the counterfeit document ring run by crime kingpin Salvador Rico. A humble Mexican illegal immigrant, Miguel Chavez, agrees to the task in exchange for his family’s …

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March 16, 2017

Setting the scene: T. Frank Muir discusses how the rainy town of St. Andrews, Scotland inspires his DCI Gilchrist series »

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With Tartan noir picking up on the dark trends left in the wake of Scandinavian crime fiction, T. Frank Muir makes waves with his gory police procedural, the fifth in his series with hard-boiled detective Andy Gilchrist. Muir discusses how the rainy town of St. Andrews, Scotland inspires his books f…

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January 12, 2016

Authors Off-Book: Nick Soulsby »

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Nick Soulsby

Londoner Nick Soulsby, editor of Cobain on Cobain: Interviews and Encounters is the author of I Found My Friends: The Oral History of Nirvana and Dark Slivers: Seeing Nirvana in the Shards of Incesticide. He blogs about the band on his website, Nirvana Legacy. Here Nick shares his thoughts …

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January 5, 2016

Authors Off-Book: Brandon Marie Miller »

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Brandon Marie MillerBrandon Marie Miller has been a history buff essentially since birth. Her parents, both teachers, took her on frequent trips to museums and historical sites, she studied American history and art history at Purdue, and she’s written nine history books for children and young adults, including Benjam

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