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At the height of her fame in the early 1930s, film star Thelma Todd was connected not only to major directors, actors, and producers but also to mob bosses and thugs who wanted a piece of the action at her renowned restaurant, Thelma Todd’s Sidewalk Café. So, it’s maybe not a surprise that …

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On Veterans Day, Chicago Review Press honors those who have served and those who continue to serve.

From titles in our award-winning For Kids series to those profiling the lives of women and girls of courage and conviction in our Women of Action series, from telling the stories of the black soldi…

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Like many people, Amy McCullough and her “mate for life” Jimmie Buchanan craved an escape from the daily grind. Amy’s new memoir The Box Wine Sailors: Misadventures of a Broke Young Couple at Sea details how they made their dream come true—the couple bought a shabby 27-foot sailboat, qui…

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On CRP’s radar for this week: knitting, coffee shops, and Terry Gross. #CRPreads

Presently reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, both for myself and for a group of friends I plan to discuss the book with later this month. It’s obviously not a light read, but it is a valuable o…

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Covers are designed individually, book-by-book, but sometimes we ask our designers not only to design a book cover, but to envision what a potential series of books will look like. It's that first cover that sets the tone that the rest of the series will follow.

We asked cover designer Andrew B…

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Armed with a PhD in art history and her volunteer work at the Morris-Jumel Mansion in Manhattan, Margaret Oppenheimer proves to be the perfect biographer for Eliza Jumel, a woman of the Early Republic who was born into grinding poverty yet died as one of the wealthiest women in New York. Margaret re…

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Most Halloween book lists, like this excellent list from The Savvy Reader, round up the scariest horror stories, but this week we asked our staff to pick the scariest book they’ve read that’s not a horror story. The responses ranged from pregnancy guides to dystopian novels. If you have a great…

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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…

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Aidan Levy has written for the New York Times, the Village Voice, JazzTimes, and the Daily Forward, among others. He plays baritone saxophone in the Stan Rubin Orchestra and is a doctoral student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He holds an MFA fro

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