Category: Interviews
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A Good Soul: In Conversation with Lucinda Williams
Three-time Grammy winner Lucinda Williams reflects on recovering from a stroke, learning poetic discipline from her father, and bringing healing music to the Virginia Theatre.
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How BookRoar Scaled from a Passion Project to an International Hub for Authors
How is BookRoar helping indie authors build authentic reviews and connect with peers? Read the full Q&A with founder Andy to explore recent milestones, platform updates, and what’s ahead.
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Peace Through Pieces
An avid hunter and seller of antiques for more than four decades, 84-year-old Bob Swisher no longer buys anything he can’t lift. He also no longer strips and refinishes furniture. Yet like his great old finds in still another store, Swisher is durable; he understands what personal restoration means.
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Meals at Maize Served with Authenticity, Love for Community
Armando likes to talk, and he breaks the ice when we first sit down by telling me about a well-known C-U writer who drunkenly approached the Sandovals only two weeks after Maize opened in 2011, seemingly coming at them with a complaint near closing time on a Friday night. But the this person wasn’t complaining.…
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Inside ‘Whalefall’: Author Daniel Kraus on Grief, Survival, and His Upcoming Film
Daniel Kraus is an unapologetically multi-genre author who has written almost every type of fictional book except a western, and even that type of read is coming soon from the Chicago resident. An “omnivorous” reader and writer by his own account, Kraus enjoys everything from romance books to thrillers, calling himself an “agent’s nightmare” because…
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The Guitar Is His Life: Matthew Curry’s Return to His Illinois Roots
Discover Matthew Curry, a talented singer and musician from Bloomington, Illinois, who is making a name for himself through constant touring and great songs.
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Grace McClellan: Thriving in the Creation and Teaching of Art
Meet artist Grace McClellan, whose work as a senior at Eastern Illinois University is getting noticed.
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Brian Krumm’s Return to his C-U ‘Neighborhood’
Discover the incredible music of Brian Krumm, a Chicago musician who has been in several noteworthy bands over the years and started a new one called Brian Krumm and His Barfly Friends.
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I Am Book, Hear Me Roar
Founded by a dedicated two-man team from the southwest region of the UK — Andy and Roger — BookRoar has proven to be a viable platform for book authors who are looking to get their reads reviewed.
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Cholesterol’s Debated Role in Heart Disease
With seven decades of experience in the field of nutrition, Dr. Kummerow, a biochemist and food scientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has persistently gathered information that is at odds with prominently assumed knowledge about cholesterol and, by extension, heart disease.