Chicago Review Press: 838 books
Oddball Illinois
A Guide to 450 Really Strange Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In this updated edition, it’s plain to see that the state of Illinois has only gotten weirder. Where there was once just a single Popeye statue in downstate Chester, today the town has monuments to Olive Oyl, Swee’ Pea, Bluto, the Sea Hag, and more. The creepy Piasa Bird petroglyph on the bluff...
The Cool Gent
The Nine Lives of Radio Legend Herb Kent
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Known as the Cool Gent, King of the Dusties, and the Mayor of Bronzeville, Herb Kent is one of radio’s most illustrious and legendary stars. This fascinating autobiography details both the high and low points of Kent’s life-including his poverty-stricken childhood in the Chicago housing projects...
Off the Beaten Page
The Best Trips for Lit Lovers, Book Clubs, and Girls on Getaways
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Blending literature and travel, this book offers a look at 15 U.S. destinations featured in the works of famous writers. Designed as a guide to help avid bibliophiles experience, in person, the places they’ve only read about, award-winning journalist Terri Peterson Smith takes readers on lively...
The People's Place
Soul Food Restaurants and Reminiscences from the Civil Rights Era to Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Celebrated former Chicago Sun-Times columnist Dave Hoekstra unearths stories as he travels, tastes, and talks his way through 20 of America’s soul food restaurants
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. loved the fried catfish and lemon icebox pie at Memphis’s Four Way restaurant. In New Orleans, beloved...
Feeding Back
Conversations with Alternative Guitarists from Proto-Punk to Post-Rock
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Feeding Back: Conversations with Rock’s Alternative Guitarists from Proto-Punk to Post-Rock offers a counter-history of rock music through the lens of interviews with musicians including Richard Thompson, J Mascis, James Williamson, Bob Mould, Tom Verlaine, Lydia Lunch, Lee Ranaldo, Johnny Marr,...
Home Front Girl
A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Kept from the early 1930s through the mid-1940s by a young Chicagoan, this diary provides a fascinating, detailed record of the life of an astute and witty teenage girl during the Great Depression and the lead-up to World War II. The only daughter of a working-class Swedish immigrant and his wife,...
Cook County ICU
30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
An inside look at one of the nation’s most famous public hospitals as seen through the eyes of its longtime director of intensive care
Filled with stories of strange medical cases and unforgettable patients culled from a 30-year career in medicine, Cook County ICU offers readers a peek into the...
Horseplayers
Life at the Track
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
This fun and witty exposé of horse racing in America goes behind the scenes at the track, providing a serious gambler's-eye-view of the action. Ted McClelland spent a year at tracks and off-track betting facilities in Chicago and across the country, profiling the people who make a career of gambling...
Post-Nup Solution
How to Save a Marriage in Crisis—Or End It Fairly
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Having trouble in your marriage? This book is for you. Tom Gardiner, a Chicago lawyer, explains how post-nuptial agreements can address marital problems effectively. Unlike counseling that often is no more than a temporary fix, this book talks about agreements that will result in long-term change....
Progressive Nation
A Travel Guide with 400+ Left Turns and Inspiring Landmarks
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
A Selection of the Progressive Book ClubFrom the sites of famous sit-ins, marches, and strikes to the locales of events that led to landmark Supreme Court decisions, this inspiring travel guide journeys to more than 400 of the places in the United States that are important to progressive politics....
Alpana Pours
About Being a Woman, Loving Wine & Having Great Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Alpana Pours is a unique lifestyle book with wine as the centerpiece. Since American women purchase and consume more wine than American men, 77% and 60% respectively, a voice is needed to help women understand that their busy professional and social lifestyles can be well paired with wine. Master...
Wanton West
Madams, Money, Murder, and the Wild Women of Montana's Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Providing new insights into women’s struggle for equality, this historical study shows the true story of the women of old Montana. With few career options available in the 19th century, many of the most independent and enterprising women turned to the world’s oldest profession for a lucrative...
by H.B. Creswell
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
A sequel to The Honeywood File (originally published in 1929, and reissued by Academy Chicago in 2000), it takes the form of an epistolary novel. Some of the great comic characters inhabit the pages of this book, and like all comedy, they contain more than a grain of truth. The book tells, in the...
Little Girl Blue
The Life of Karen Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
An intimate profile of one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century, this first full-length biography of Karen Carpenter details every aspect of her life, from her modest Connecticut upbringing and her rise to stardom in southern California to the real story of her tragic, untimely...