Let's review: Rachel Shteir and poor Chicago - Chicago Tribune.
Shteir, a New Jersey-born professor at Chicago’s DePaul University, lit into the Windy City in a front-page essay for a long list of all-too-unsettling truths. Fifteen-year-olds shot near President Obama’s home, racial segregation, financial strain, corrupt politicians — all of it masked by a boastful swagger about how NYC and other spots can’t hold a candle to the city by the lake.
Rachel Shteir’s totally unprovoked evisceration of Chicago, which masquerades as a “book review,” is infuriating particularly because the woman who wrote it moved here from New York. By choice.
Rachel Shteir has lectured widely on popular culture and theatre. She is the recipient of six Yaddo residencies as well as MacDowell and Ragdale Colony residencies.Rachel has also written for American Theatre, Bookforum, The Daily, The New York Times, Slate, The Guardian, Playboy, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Chicago Magazine, The Huffington Post, The Chicago Tribune, (the late) New York.
Get this from a library! Confession of a serial killer: the untold story of Dennis Rader, the BTK killer. (Katherine M Ramsland) -- In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolescence, he had read about serial killers and imagined becoming one. Soon after killing the family, he.
The Forgotten Writing of Bette Howland. May 8 2019. 9 0 Comments Print Email Kindle. Best known, perhaps, for her short-lived romance with Saul Bellow—who remained her friend and confidant for the remainder of his life—Bette Howland, who died in 2017 and is little remembered today, had a promising career as a writer of criticism and fiction. The recently published Calm Sea and Prosperous.
Rachel Shteir has a lot to say about Chicago in Sunday's lead review of the New York Times Book Review, and in the course of saying it she. The Dublin Review of Books publishes long-form essays and shorter book reviews, blog entries, and details on forthcoming literary events in Ireland. Founded in 1977, the American Book Review is a nonprofit, internationally distributed publication that.
Rachel Shteir, author of the prize-winning Striptease, gives us Gypsy’s story from her arrival in New York in 1931 to her sojourns in Hollywood, her friendships and rivalries with writers and artists, the Sondheim musical, family memoirs that retold her history in divergent ways, and a television biopic currently in the making. With verve, audacity, and native guile, Gypsy Rose Lee moved.