Choose Your Own Adventure: A Conversation with Jennifer Egan & George Saunders

Imagining the future has long intrigued writers and readers. There are no constraints when envisioning our future communities and world, and that alone is incredibly appealing. Futuristic fiction takes us places that make us pause, ...

Thoughts on Tragedy

Our hearts are heavy after a weekend in which tragedy befell too many corners of our world, including Beirut, Kenya, and Paris. Though we know that nothing we can say or do can adequately comfort those who are suffering from ...

A Veteran’s Story

In an NPR interview, Benjamin Busch, author of the foreword to our anthology, Standing Down: From Warrior to ...

Chicagoans! Come to a Veteran’s Day Book Launch

Join us in supporting DePaul University’s Big Shoulders Books by attending the book launch party for I Remember: Chicago Veterans of War on November 11. The book weaves together the memories of 50 veterans of World War II, ...