Chicago Reader Bookshelf

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Cecil Adams | Straight Dope Tells All, Triumph of the Straight Dope, Return of the Straight Dope

Jake Austen | TV-a-Go-Go: Rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol

Lynda Barry | One Hundred Demons, CRUDDY: An Illustrated Novel, The Freddie Stories: With the Great Marlys! and Sister Maybonne

Steve Bogira | Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse

Jack Clark | On the Home Front: My Mother's Story of Everyday American Life from Prohibition Through WW II

John Conroy | Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture, Belfast Diary: War as a Way of Life

Lloyd DeGrane | Tuned In: Television in American Life. Photographs.

Todd Dills | Sons of the Rapture, All Hands On: A THE2NDHAND Reader

Clifford Doerksen | American Babel: Rogue Radio Broadcasters of the Jazz Age

Scott Eden | Touchdown Jesus: Faith and Fandom at Notre Dame

Gina Frangello | My Sister's Continent

Matt Groening | The Big Book of Hell, The Huge Book of Hell

Nicholas Gurewitch | The Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories

Jeff Huebner | Murals: The Great Walls of Joliet, Urban Art Chicago

Melissa King | She's Got Next

Adam Langer | Crossing California, The Washington Story Ellington Boulevard: A Novel in A-Flat

Ted McClelland | Horseplayers: Life at the Track, The Third Coast: Sailors, Strippers, Fishermen, Folksingers, Long-Haired Ojibway Painters, and God-Save-the-Queen Monarchists of the Great Lakes

Richard Meltzer | A Whore Just Like the Rest: The Music Writings of Richard Meltzer

Tony Millionaire | The Maakies With the Wrinkled Knees

J. Niimi | R.E.M.'s Murmur (33 1/3)

Neal Pollack | Alternadad, Never Mind the Pollacks: A Rock and Roll Novel (P.S.), Beneath the Axis of Evil: One Man's Journey into the Horrors of War, The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature: The Collected Writings of Neal Pollack

Jonathan Rosenbaum | Discovering Orson Welles, Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons, Movies as Politics

Dan Savage | Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist, The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant, Skipping Towards Gomorrah

Chuck Shepherd | More News of the Weird, Beyond News of the Weird

Jerry Sullivan | Hunting for Frogs on Elston, and Other Tales from Field & Street

Neil Tesser | The Playboy Guide to Jazz

Chris Ware | The Acme Novelty Library, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

David Whiteis | Chicago Blues: Portraits and Stories

S.L. Wisenberg | Holocaust Girls: History, Memory, and Other Obsessions

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