Early copies of the new B-Side Editions book, ERRAND WEATHER by Nathan Dragon, are in and they're looking good. Linked novellas – suffusive, questioning, beautiful. Out 9/15/26, available to pre-order now. www.bsideeditions.com/shop/p/erran...
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I'll be talking with @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social about her great, fun new novel MAN OVERBOARD! at @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social tomorrow (Saturday 7/11) at 3pm. More info here: www.semcoop.com/event/kathle...
Tomorrow! Saturday, July 11th at 3:00 pm at Seminary Coop! Come hear me in conversation with the fantastic Deb Shapiro about Man Overboard! -- RSVP here! www.semcoop.com/event/kathle...
Kathleen Rooney - "Man Overboard!" - Deborah Shapiro | Seminary Co-op Bookstores
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This piece in Newcity by @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com about what makes a Chicago Beach Read -- including Rowan Beaird, @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social, Dawn Turner, and yours truly -- is fantastic! lit.newcity.com/2026/07/08/b...
Booking at the Beach: Chicago Authors with New Novels Explore the City’s Formidable Reading Tastes
Four local authors with novels releasing this summer try to define the kind of books our city likes to read while lounging Lake-side.
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Spring sale is on at the B-Side Editions site. Get 15% off any order with the code SPRING15, through 5/3/26. Books make great gifts and we offer complimentary gift-wrapping. www.bsideeditions.com
An excerpt from WATCHING THE DETECTIVE is up at @oldstermag.bsky.social and Neko Case approves! Please check it out if you're curious. open.substack.com/pub/oldster/...
The next B-Side Editions book, ERRAND WEATHER by Nathan Dragon, has a cover! Publishing in September. Curious about the book? Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/tktktkde...
ANNOUNCING! We are beside ourselves with glee to tell you that @fulmerford.com is this year's StoryStudio Chicago Instructor of the Year! We can't wait to celebrate Juan's award at this year's StoryBall -- May 7 at Ravenswood Event Center. buff.ly/Q2XfUh7
Hey! I'll be at the Oak Park Public Library on Tuesday, 4/14 at 6:30pm, in conversation with poet Christine Poreba, talking about memoir, the power of images, the weirdness of time, parents and kids, and just one more thing... Columbo! oakpark.librarycalendar.com/event/author...
Author Visit: Deborah Shapiro | Oak Park Public Library
Hear Deborah Shapiro discuss her newest book Watching The Detective, a book mixing memoir and cultu
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When I talk to people, when I ride on trains, life seems to have some apparent, surface goodness that does not need questioning. —John Cheever, journal
Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is the annual herpetarium reenactment of John Cassavetes’s A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE.
I have a new article out in Newcity Lit today about the inimitable Camille Bordas! lit.newcity.com/2026/02/23/c...
Interview: Camille Bordas on “One Sun Only”
The Chicago-based writer discusses the pleasures of editing, writing in English versus French and the narrative power of anxiety.
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Had a very fun time chatting with Ben Tanzer on his podcast. I haven’t listened to it yet (hard to hear your own voice) but I do remember referencing those 80s Freedom Rock commercials ("well, turn it up, man!") as an example of how nostalgia can be embarrassing. www.tanzerben.com/blog/this-po...
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Seventy-Seven - A Hint Of Delight, starring the Deborah Shapiro.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Deborah Shapiro (Watching the Detective, Consolation, B-Side Editions). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podc
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I wrote about one part of my reaction to recent events: the importance and nuance of what it means to subscribe to something.
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 6mo agoEarlier this month, The Washington Post scuttled its Books section amid mass layoffs. Its former editor, @johnwilliams.bsky.social, on why he thinks the paper’s leaders are wrong about subscriber loyalty:
Did you know that skunk cabbages are thermogenic - they generate their own heat to melt frozen, icy ground and prepare the soil for new growth in the spring? Join us for a hike in the woods to see skunk cabbages emerging for the spring and raise money for Midwest Immigration Bond Fund.
Incredibly delighted to see this in the Washington Post (and to see Watching the Detective included alongside Cher Part One). Btw, the holiday sale is still on at www.bsideeditions.com. Get 10% off orders with the code THANKS10 at checkout.
This means so much to me – thank you, Juan. 2025 has been so rough in so many ways. If this book has added a little light, I'm very happy to hear it.
Juan Martinez@fulmerford.com · 8mo agoDeborah Shapiro’s WATCHING THE DETECTIVE, a joyful meditation on Columbo, art at large, family, and the peculiarities of place and time and Peter Falk.
I sometimes think about how in the course of his career Columbo met at least four guys who looked like Robert Culp, and three of them turned out to be murderers. Do you think by the fourth one he went in feeling suspicious?
“you don’t make too much of yourself because you are occupied with making much out of what is going on around you” — on Columbo & writers being unassuming
Just a reminder that B-Side Editions offers the option of free gift wrapping, and books make great presents. I don’t have the time/patience/microphone to make an ASMR gift wrapping video so please accept these inert photos and imagine me whispering “Shop small, if at all.”
❤️ thank you @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social ❤️
Kathleen Rooney@kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 9mo agoWatching the Detective by Deborah Shapiro from @bside-editions.bsky.social is such an excellent blend of personal writing and cultural criticism that @martinseay.bsky.social and I bought three copies: one to keep for ourselves and two to give over the holidays. Add to cart!
Tonight! Release party for Watching the Detective. At the Whistler. Doors at 6. Would love to see you!
Thanks so much to @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social and @rachellayown.bsky.social for this interview🖤
Chicago Review of Books@chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 9mo ago"Most writers, on some level, are writing to figure things out, to try to make some sense of things." @rachellayown.bsky.social's interview with Deborah Shapiro on her new book "Watching the Detective” (@bside-editions.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/18/w...
The date is fast approaching... Wednesday 11/19/25 at the Whistler. Would love to see you there.
B-Side Editions@bside-editions.bsky.social · 10mo agoChicago! Save the date for a Watching the Detective book launch party. Weds, November 19th, 6-8pm at The Whistler. Books, beverages, friends, hope to see you there.
super proud to be part of this @wbez.org story alongside two amazing writers, love that I was photoshopped so that it looks like I’m lurking & about to jumpscare the both of them www.wbez.org/books/2025/1...
How to write a horror story: Three writers on the art of the scare
The American Writers Museum of Chicago will open an exhibit in November on the influence of religion and culture on creative works, including the horror genre.
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