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All Along the Boulevard 11 Jul 2013 | 08:06 pm
When John Wright suggested in 1849 that the city of Chicago try to better live up to its motto “Urbs in Horto”–”City in a Garden”–he offered a plan. Instead of letting speculators gobble up the land p...
What Sandburg Missed 20 Jun 2013 | 07:38 pm
Chicago 1914. Postcard from Chuckman’s Collection Chicago by Carl Sandburg Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler; Sto...
“A Revolver” 7 Feb 2013 | 09:30 pm
Rick Kogan writes in the Tribune about the remarkable timeliness of the newly discovered Carl Sandburg poem, “A Revolver.” Here is the poem, found by a volunteer at the rare book room in the U of I li...
Slang 7 Feb 2013 | 08:22 pm
Good thing I was born long after the sun set on this era–otherwise I probably would’ve been a blowsa-bella with an Arkansas toothpick.
A Delay 4 Feb 2013 | 08:24 am
Dear Readers, One thing I love about writing historical fiction is the power it has to transport me to a different world. I might be typing away at my desk in the little alcove off our bedroom where ...
New giveaway! 16 Jan 2013 | 02:33 am
Head on over to Goodreads to enter a new giveaway of FIVE SIGNED COPIES of In Need of a Good Wife. Times a wastin’!
My kind of ABCs 20 Dec 2012 | 08:30 pm
Look at these beautiful new editions of Penguin Classics, with covers designed by Jessica Hische. Some of you know that my daughter shares names with two of these authors–should I buy them for her she...
Books make great (and easy!) gifts 7 Dec 2012 | 08:57 pm
No snow yet in Chicago (in fact, it was sixty degrees here just a few days ago!), but the lights are on the trees and stressed-out shoppers are crowding the stores. If only they knew how easy it is to...
2012? 26 Nov 2012 | 10:12 pm
“The men who fought the American Revolution . . . meant what they said about freedom. . . . This didn’t mean that twenty percent of the people were free to rob the other eighty percent of the means to...
Interview: Roberta Gately 14 Nov 2012 | 01:35 am
Roberta Gately’s The Bracelet has an intriguing premise: Boston nurse Abby Monroe and New York Times reporter Nick Sinclair find themselves entrenched in the middle of a human trafficking ring oversea...
