Getting Around on IBD Coming soon.

Tickets are on sale now for the trolley and bus routes for Independent Bookstore Day. Grab yours now!

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American Made: Stories of Work from the WPA Stories of Work from the WPA

If you pre-order using this link, it will benefit @roscoebooks.bsky.social in Chicago (b/c there's lots of CHI interviews, and they just held a great event for a @beltpublishing.bsky.social title)

Our fourth installment in the Chicago Renaissance series is an essay about Halle Butler’s “The New Me” (@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social, 2019), by author Nathan Hill.
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Avondale's Whiskey Trust Blends Kentucky Spirits With Chicago’s 'Untold' Drinking History Former attorney Jeff VanDam launched his whiskey blend and distribution company in January. His first bottle, Dynamite Batch, is being poured and sold at local bars and a second release is in the work...

Woohooo, thanks @blockclubchi.bsky.social for this cool story about our owner Erika's spouse, Jeff, and his new whiskey business.

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Happy Pub Day to @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social editor-in-chief @mbwwelch.bsky.social. If you're in Chicago, the launch party for ON AN INLAND SEA is tonight at 6:30 pm at @roscoebooks.bsky.social.

@roscoebooks.bsky.social does really good shelf talkers. Thanks for the rec ❤️📚 #books #booksky

SUNDAY SALON CHICAGO is a week away! Join us @roscoebooks.bsky.social on Nov 23 at 7 pm for inspiring readings with Rachel DeWoskin, Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Maureen Aitken, Averill Curdy & David Hicks. I'm excited to host them & look forward to an uplifting evening of prose & poetry. 🙏 🔥👏

Author in a bookstore holding copy of his book “U2: Until the End of the World”

Stopped by @roscoebooks.bsky.social to sign copies of my new U2 book! I’m incredibly appreciative of their support!

Support your local bookseller!

Announcing the 2025 Chicago Review of Books Awards Shortlist - Chicago Review of Books The Chicago Review of Books is proud to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Chicago Review of Books (CHIRBy) Awards! This year we’re celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the awards! For a decade, th...

The 2025 CHIRBy Shortlists from @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social are out! What a great collection of Chicago books and writing.

Time to get to reading (if you haven't already) these great nominees! The winners are announced December 11.

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Get your spooky season vibes right! Our next Fiction book club pick is local author @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social’s VANISHING DAUGHTERS — a book that’s a bit horror but with the soul of a crime thriller.

Stop in and grab a copy and join us for the meeting — October 7 at 7:30 pm. All are welcome!

SUNDAY SALON CHICAGO's website is now updated with our 9/28/25 readers' bios. They'll be reading @roscoebooks.bsky.social & feature @ninasudhakar.bsky.social, MichaelMcColly, Ben Tanzer, @janicemdeal.bsky.social & Carlos Cumpián. Pls join us. Visit sundaysalon-chicago.com & join our email list. ❤️

We're now just six days away from our Keira D'Amato event. Tickets are going quickly -- grab yours before they're gone!

TONIGHT 8/31/25 @7pm > Sunday Salon Chicago hosts THE OVERTURNING ANTHOLOGY book launch at Roscoe Village's finest bookstore: @roscoebooks.bsky.social. Doors open at 6:30. Free parking on Roscoe St. Event co-editors & co-hosts: @vabellwriter, @rice_christine & myself. Hope to see you, Chicago! 🌺🌈 💝

EXCITING EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: On September 10 at 6:30 pm, we are absolutely thrilled to host world-class runner Keira D'Amato for the release event of her new book, DON’T CALL IT A COMEBACK. 

Tickets: www.roscoebooks.com/event/keira-...

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This is now TWO WEEKS from today. Tickets are going quickly. Get yours now, #chicago!

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Group photo of the 2025 StoryBoard Fellows at Roscoe Books in Chicago IL. Writers stand in an alcove with the a painted sign above that reads: Get Lost in a Book! The fellows are: Kat Tang, Beth Uznis Johnson, Lisa Low, Dionne Ford, Genevieve DeGuzman, Ashley Honeysett, and Lisa Williamson Rosenberg.

Photo of the audience at the 2025 StoryBoard Fellows reading at Roscoe Books.

Genevieve DeGuzman (me!) standing and speaking at the mic at Roscoe Books. She read poems from Karaoke at the End of the World, out March 2026.

Close up of Genevieve DeGuzman at the mic during her reading at Roscoe Books. She's over the moon to be there.

The #StoryBoardFest25 Fellows Reading at the packed @roscoebooks.bsky.social earlier this month was such a lovely event. I had a blast sharing, as you can tell. To my fellow Fellows, I'm in awe to be in your company. (Thank you to @anandalima.bsky.social for the photos.) ✨🙏🏼❤️

THIS SUNDAY! Sunday Salon Chicago launches THE OVERTURNING ANTHOLOGY on 8/31 at 7 pm @roscoebooks.bsky.social in Roscoe Village ❤️🔥🌈 Hope to see you, Chicago!

EXCITING EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: On September 10 at 6:30 pm, we are absolutely thrilled to host world-class runner Keira D'Amato for the release event of her new book, DON’T CALL IT A COMEBACK. 

Tickets: www.roscoebooks.com/event/keira-...

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First time at @roscoebooks.bsky.social, picked up the new one by @tvayyyy.bsky.social and finally got one by @bside-editions.bsky.social - enjoying the patio at Soul & Smoke (I swear this isn’t a paid ad)

Tonight at @roscoebooks.bsky.social -- join us for our special StoryBoard Fellows reading!

The fun starts at 6:30 pm.

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Oof 😅😂

Chicago friends! This is tomorrow -- and you're invited. Come hear these seven brilliant writers read, live at our store.

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You may have heard the AP is no longer assigning book review coverage. Sad times, but we have happy news too: Our sister pub @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social offers book reviews, criticism, interviews, essays, and more -- and there's NEVER a paywall.

Read here: chireviewofbooks.com

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Sunday Salon Chicago hosts 2 August Pop-Up reading events: one at Evanston's Fountain Square LIT FEST on Sat. 8/23 at 5 pm; as well, a book launch for THE OVERTURNING ANTHOLOGY @roscoebooks.bsky.social on Sun. 8/31 at 7 pm. Hope to see you. Bios are up at www.sundaysalon-chicago.com

We’re famous!!!

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Read Your Resistance: 5 Books to Reckon with Big Tech - Chicago Review of Books In tech discourse today, dread predominates, and for good reason. Unlike other pressing topics, like global warming—unambiguously bad—and unfettered capitalism—nice in theory, but minus the fetters, r...

Has the AI boom got you down? Us too!

@chicagorevbooks.bsky.social has a great list of five #books to help you reckon with big tech:

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SUNDAY SALON CHICAGO HAPPENS TONIGHT 7/27 in-person at @roscoebooks.bsky.social at 7 pm CT, featuring Rita Woods, Cynthia Pelayo, @meganstielstra.bsky.social , Westley Heine, & me! Hosted by the @ignatius2u.bsky.social sundaysalon-chicago.com for more info. Hope to see you in Chicago.

Come hang #Chicago!

SUNDAY SALON CHICAGO happens in-person @roscoebooks.bsky.social in just 3 days on 7/27 at 7 pm CT, featuring Rita Woods, Cynthia Pelayo, @meganstielstra.bsky.social, Westley Heine, & @wesblake.bsky.social 🔥 sundaysalon-chicago.com for more. Hope to see you, Chicago 👋🌈

got mine @roscoebooks.bsky.social can’t wait to read to bb