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From Liberace to Steve Jobs, everybody gets a biopic. 

How Instagram-ing every detail of your life keeps you from actually living it. 

Criticism is at its best when it’s a spirited dialogue between two people who care passionately about the art.

Last week, New York Times magazine critic Sam Anderson—who has a sidelight “Tweeting the best sentence I read every day”—singled out and passed along to his 10,000 followers something from one of my books.You think I'm making chicken bc you like it, Jim, but I

Danny’s does not represent the entirety of the city. But it does represent a certain mindset that feels entirely Chicago.

Prepare for some serious day drinking.