“I Came To Chicago To Work”

Dear Readers: Rachel Leรณn interviewed me for Chicago Review of Books on my latest novel SPEAKING OF SUMMER, the writing life and working in Chicago. Iโ€™d forgotten how much we covered: the novel composition process, support (or the lack thereof) for mental health, inequities in approaches to men and womenโ€™s meditative literature, unsafety for women. … Continue reading “I Came To Chicago To Work”

Tiffany Gholar Tells the Truth

Gholar's display of glorious art and life-giving paintings, completed across five years, come with grown woman commentary about what it took to see each piece through. In wisdom, she snakes the darkest corners of life- grief, breakups, economic peril- in a chronology of change and chaos where blank canvas was the steadiest hold.