Category: Book Cellar
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I Know What I Saw: Modern-Day Encounters with Monsters of New Urban Legend and Ancient Lore
Linda Godfrey has spent almost 30 years hunting down tales of the supernatural.
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Apocalypse Any Day Now: Deep Underground with America’s Doomsday Preppers.
The end of the world is coming again—just as it was before Y2K and the Mayan Doomsday Calendar back to the calculations of Bishop Gregory of Tours, showing it would be all over sometimes between 799 and 806 and Christopher Columbus (yes, that Christopher Columbus) who it was ending in 1658. “It’s something…
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Park Avenue Summer
Chicago-based author Renee Rosen typically writes novels about historic periods and people in Chicago such as the age of jazz (Windy City Blues); mid-20th century journalism (White Collar Girl) and the Roaring Twenties (Dollface). But in Park Avenue Summer, her latest novel which she describes as “Mad Men the Devil Wears Prada,” she takes…
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Save Me the Plums: Ruth Reichl’s Memoir
A decade ago, out of all the food magazines published, the most famous was Gourmet, which offered a sophisticated look at culinary trends and cookery. And Ruth Reichl, who formerly had been the food critic for the New York Times, a job that entailed wearing disguises because her photo was plastered on a large…
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Brett Paesel’s Everything is Just Fine: Life for a Beverly Hills Soccer Team
Everything is Just Fine, a social satire about families on a Beverly Hills soccer team for 10-year-old boys told partially in e-mails, explores the secrets and failings of the parents as they connect with each other throughout the season’s wins and losses. Written by Brett Paesel, who also authored the bestselling Mommies Who Drink: Sex,…
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50 Ways to Love Wine More: Adventures in Wine Appreciation!
Jim Laughren wants to keep it real when talking about wine. No pretentions, no superciliousness. It’s about what you like, not what the big time wine critics say you should like says Laughren, author of 50 Ways to Love Wine More: Adventures in Wine Appreciation! (Crosstown Publishing 2018; $26.95), an NYC Big Book Award winner…
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Food of the Italian South by Katie Parla
It’s personal for Katie Parla, award winning cookbook author, travel guide and food blogger who now has turned her passion for all things Italian to the off-the-beaten paths of Southern Italy, with its small villages, endless coastline, vast pastures and rolling hills. “Three of my grandmother’s four grandparents are from Spinoso, deep in a remote…
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The Lost Night by Andrea Bartz
In Andrea Bartz’s mystery novel, The Lost Night, Lindsay Bach believes she remembers the night her once-best friend Edie committed suicide. It’s seared into her brain. Or so she thinks. Over dinner, a long ago friend who has just moved back to New York suggests that she wasn’t with the group like she believes.…
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Let’s Play Two: The Life and Times of Ernie Banks
“People couldn’t see beyond his optimistic outlook and took him to be naïve and have a simplistic outlook on life,” says Wilson. “But Banks was a very deep thinker, he’s someone who overcame a lot of obstacles but never said anything bad about people.
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Book Signings: Lost Restaurants of Chicago by Greg Borzo
For those of us who grew up in and around Chicago, there are names of long gone restaurants that still tug at our heart, evoking memories of foods no longer served, surroundings replaced and aromas we many never smell again. For me, that’s the allure of Greg Borzo’s latest book, Lost Restaurants of Chicago…
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