by Quinn | Nov 6, 2019 | A View From The Purse
AHEMTHIS IS CHA CHAI AM THE PROPRIETRESS OF THE READING ROOM CLEI HAVE PREPARED A SHORT VIDEOWITH MY OPINIONS ON HUMAN LITERATURETHIS WEEK'S BOOK IS GREAT EXPECTATIONSI MUST SAY, FILMING IS QUITE EXCITINGI HAD A DICKENS OF A TIMETHANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
by Quinn | Nov 1, 2019 | Dispatches from the Front
Every year, near Halloween, the spectres and skeptics arise. Crawling out of their hideyholes like a horde of brain-eating zombies, they intone: “Fifty thousand words….I could never write fifty thousand words in a month. I keep meaning to try, but I knooooow I...
by Quinn | Oct 31, 2019 | Reader Advisory
Submitted by Dr. Melissa Bird, of Natural Born Rebel. Melissa Bird, PhD, MSW is a passionate feminist whose education in social work has led to a career advocating for children, women, and their families. She is a fierce believer in social justice advocacy and...
by Quinn | Oct 24, 2019 | Reader Advisory
Submitted by Leslie Nienaber, of www.apprissretail.com Leslie is a digital marketer and content writer with a love for books across many genres, including historical fiction, dark comedy and dystopia. Reader Advisory is a series in which community and business leaders...
by Quinn | Oct 17, 2019 | Reader Advisory
Submitted by Amanda Maurer, Media Intern for Reading Room CLE, Summer 2019 Amanda is an avid book reader who just finished her first year of college, where she has discovered that she has an intense, sometimes all-consuming, desire to learn. She mourns all of the...
by Quinn | Oct 11, 2019 | Call for Submissions
Our call for submissions, for the You Shoulda Been There subscription series, has sent a flurry of questions to our inbox here at The Reading Room CLE. Here are the answers, in a handy explainer for you! What is a chapbook? What is a broadside? Back in the days when...
by Quinn | Sep 23, 2019 | Call for Submissions
Some nights are magic. The show is spot-on; the audience sings along; the crowd catches the poet's energy and gives it back a hundredfold. Afterward we spill onto the street, still buzzing: “Did you hear that? Did you see–“But if you're not there,...
by Quinn | Jul 23, 2019 | Reader Advisory
Amanda Maurer is a coffee drinker, book reader, writer, and creator, as well as a student at Loyola University Chicago, where she is majoring in English and Multimedia Journalism. Reader Advisory is a series in which community and business leaders and our staff...
