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A new form of Southern slavery led to Northern race riotsA tale of heroism in the fight against Illinois corruptionThe epic labor struggle in the ‘Decatur war zone’The Case of the Mad Gasser of MattoonThe Great CommunicatorThe famous architect who was never aloneThe forgotten Maxwell brothersFollowing in Lincoln’s stepsA portrait of the landscape in barnsAffair in a Chicago heat wave
Books | Wednesday, July 30,2008
Documenting a year of change
Barbara Kingsolver explains what it’s like becoming a locavore
This isn't the Kingsolver you've grown to
love. It's nonfiction, about herself and family; in fact, it's
partially written by her husband, Stephen Hopp, a biologist, and her
daughter Ca
Books | Wednesday, July 30,2008
The forgotten Maxwell brothers
Story of two Illinois desperadoes captures the romance, grit of Old West
Everybody knows of the exploits of outlaws Frank and
Jesse James, but who remembers Ed and Lon Maxwell, two
Illinoisans who captured the nation's attention in the early 1880s? The
broth
Books | Wednesday, July 23,2008
What’s playing in your head?
You don’t have to know much about music to find Musicophilia fascinating
Every now and then I tune in to my head to see
what's playing there: sometimes nothing, sometimes a childhood song,
sometimes an annoying advertising ditty, sometimes a symphonic bit I can
Books | Wednesday, July 16,2008
Rousing the Lincoln in you
Andrew Ferguson takes a fresh look at a familiar icon
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Andrew Ferguson's personal saga tracing the
Lincoln industry and influence began when he was a kid, visiting New Salem
and other Lincoln shrines (thus called until r
Books | Wednesday, June 11,2008
Saving Jane Austen
Thursday’s next task — keeping the Bennets from becoming too real
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Book lovers, if you haven’t already discovered
Jasper Fforde, don’t. Danger: addiction. Where else will you find
Thursday Next, a literary detective
Books | Wednesday, June 4,2008
Booty call
Carol Manley’s struggling characters are painfully, wonderfully human
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You don’t expect a story that begins:
“The brassiere is off, Louella” to gently break your heart, and
that’s precisely what makes Spring
Books | Wednesday, May 14,2008
The sensuality of everyday life
Springfield’s Celia Wesle publishes engaging poetry collection
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Imagine sitting in your favorite coffeehouse,
surrounded by paintings done in a riot of color. A wise friend is sharing a
latte, along with stories from her lif
Books | Wednesday, April 9,2008
Pana’s princess of plots
Christy Cameron scores with pair of recent romance novels
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Christy Cameron of Pana, in addition to raising two
boys adopted from Russia and a recently born daughter, managing a farm
household, sometimes drivi
Books | Wednesday, April 2,2008
Mark your calendar
2012 author should have dabbled in facts more, drugs less
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At one point in Daniel Pinchbeck’s fantastical
personal exploration of apocalyptic myth and reality in 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, he
elaborates on
Books | Wednesday, March 26,2008
Knowing Knoepfle
Our beloved resident poet produces a graceful autobiography
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Our local- and national-award-winning poet John
Knoepfle has written an autobiography. Not a complete one — he begins
with his roots in Ireland and Switze
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