chicago review press review chicago chicago review press 2016 chicago review press 2016 814 north franklin street chicago, il 60610 www.chicagoreviewpress.com *CR16* CONTENTS NEW IN 2016 Chicago Review Press 1 Lawrence Hill Books 34 A Cappella 45 Ball Publishing 68 Academy Chicago 69 Chicago Review Press Children’s Books 78 Index 97 Contact Information 99 CHICAGO REVIEW PRESS 1 ALGREN A Life Mary Wisniewski The first new examination of the life of Nelson Algren in over 25 years, Algren is the definitive biography of one of the best-known writers of mid-20th-century America. Chicago journal- ist Mary Wisniewski interviewed dozens of Algren’s inner circle, including photographer Art Shay and the late Studs Terkel, and examined Algren’s unpublished writing and correspondence, including hundreds of letters he received from lover Simone de Beauvoir, to craft an account as entertaining as it is meticulously researched. Algren reveals new details about the writer’s life, work, personality, and habits, digging beneath the street-crawling man’s man stereotype to show a funny, sensitive, and romantic but self- destructive artist. Wisniewski shows how, initially celebrated then savaged by literary critics for his continued preoccupation with prostitutes and in 1981. This fresh look at the man whose tough drug addicts in his fiction, Algren was haunted but humorous style and compassionate mes- by insecurity about his work and practically gave sage enchanted fellow writers and whose boyish up writing fiction after 1956, and how he finally charm seduced many women is indispensable found a sense of community and acceptance in to anyone interested in 20th-century American the artist colony of Sag Harbor before his death literature. biography / regional: Midwest Mary Wisniewski is a reporter at the Chicago Tribune 384 pages, 6 x 9 and former Reuters investigative reporter covering 25 b/w photos Midwest crime and politics. Previously a columnist cloth, $30.00, (CAN $40.00), 978-1-61373-532-9 for the Chicago Sun-Times and a reporter for Chicago Adobe PDF, $29.99 (CAN $39.99), 978-1-61373-533-6 Lawyer, Wisniewski has won numerous awards and EPUB, $29.99 (CAN $39.99), 978-1-61373-535-0 has also taught creative writing, published literary Kindle, $29.99 (CAN $39.99), 978-1-61373-534-3 reviews, and edited fiction and non-fiction books. She is Rights: World an active participant in the Nelson Algren Committee, October past president of the Chicago Headline Club, and appears frequently to talk about crime and politics on local television and radio. She lives in Chicago. 2 chicago REVIEW press JUNK Digging Through America’s Love Affair with Stuff Alison Stewart books they would likely never reread? Junk details Stewart’s three-year investigation into America’s stuff. Stewart rides along with junk removal teams like Trash Daddy, Annie Haul, and Junk Vets. She goes backstage to a taping of Antiques Roadshow, and learns what makes for compelling junk-based television with the executive producer of Pawn Stars. And she even investigates the growing prob- lem of space junk—23,000 pieces of manmade debris that threaten both satellites and human space exploration. Readers will also learn that there are creative solutions to America’s crushing consumer cul- ture. The author visits with Deron Beal, founder of FreeCyle, an online community of people who would rather give away than throw away their no-longer-needed possessions. She spends a day When journalist and author Alison Stewart at a Repair Café, where volunteer tinkerers bring was confronted with emptying her late parents’ new life to broken appliances, toys, and just about overloaded basement, a job that dragged on for anything. Junk is a delightful journey through months, it got her thinking: How did it come to 250-mile-long yard sales, resale shops, and packrat this? Why do smart, successful people hold on to dens, both human and rodent, that for most read- old Christmas bows, chipped knickknacks, and ers will look surprisingly familiar. current events / sociology Alison Stewart is an award-winning journalist whose 304 pages, 6 x 9 20-year career includes anchoring and reporting for NBC 25 b/w photos News, ABC News, and CBS News. Stewart is the author of cloth, $26.99 (CAN $31.99) 978-1-61373-055-3 First Class and is currently the host of the Travel Channel Adobe PDF, $26.99 (CAN $31.99), 978-1-61373-056-0 program, Follow My Past. EPUB, $26.99 (CAN $31.99), 978-1-61373-058-4 Kindle, $26.99 (CAN $31.99), 978-1-61373-057-7 Rights: World April NEW IN 2016 3 IMMUNITY How Elie Metchnikoff Changed the Course of Modern Medicine Luba Vikhanski In October 1882, while peering through a micro- scope at starfish larvae in which he had inserted tiny thorns, Russian zoologist Elie Metchnikoff had a brilliant insight: what if the mobile cells he saw gathering around the thorns were the same as white blood cells that traveled to the site of an injury or infection in a human or other animal? Was this some form of cellular defense? Metch- nikoff’s theory of immunity, that phagocytes— white blood cells—formed the first line of defense against invading bacteria would eventually earn the scientist the unofficial moniker “Father of Nat- ural Immunity” and a Nobel Prize, but first he had to convince his colleagues, including the skeptical Louis Pasteur. Author Luba Vikhanski chronicles Metch- nikoff’s remarkable life, work, and discoveries in Immunity, the first modern biography of this hero neered research into probiotics and gerontology. of medicine. Metchnikoff was a towering figure Though largely forgotten today, Vikhanski makes in the scientific community, a tireless humanitar- a compelling case that his work on natural immu- ian who also worked to curb outbreaks of cholera, nity is finally receiving the long overdue attention rabies, syphilis, and other deadly diseases, and pio- it deserves. science / biography Luba Vikhanski is an award-winning author with 25 years 336 pages, 6 x 9 of experience as a popular science journalist and writer. Her 4 color photos, 9 b/w photos work has appeared in the New York Times, Nature Medicine, cloth, $26.99 (CAN $31.99), 978-1-61373-110-9 and the Jerusalem Post, and she has written two books: Adobe PDF, $26.99 (CAN $31.99), 978-1-61373-112-3 A Well-Informed Patient’s Guide to Breast Surgery and In EPUB, $26.99 (CAN $31.99), 978-1-61373-113-0 Search of the Lost Cord. Kindle, $26.99 (CAN $31.99), 978-1-61373-111-6 Rights: World English April 4 chicago REVIEW press THE LEPER SPY The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II Ben Montgomery across enemy lines for Gen. Douglas MacArthur. As the Battle of Manila raged, young Josefina Guerrero walked through gunfire to bandage wounds and close the eyes of the dead. Her valor earned her the Medal of Freedom, but the thing that made her a good spy was a disease that was destroying her. Guerrero suffered from leprosy, which so horrified the Japanese they refused to search her. After the war, army chaplains found her in a nightmarish leper colony and campaigned for the US government to do something it had never done: welcome a foreigner with leprosy. The fight brought her celebrity, which she used on radio and television to speak for other sufferers. However, the notoriety haunted her after the disease was arrested, and she had to find a way to disappear. The GIs called her Joey. Hundreds owed their Author Ben Montgomery brings Guerrero’s lives to the tiny Filipina who was one of the top heroic and postwar accomplishments to light. The spies for the Allies during World War II, stashing Leper Spy also chronicles Guerrero’s starring role explosives in spare tires, tracking Japanese troop in the effort to destigmatize leprosy and build a movements, and smuggling maps of fortifications better life for the afflicted. history /military Ben Montgomery is the author of the New York Times 288 pages, 6 x 9 bestseller Grandma Gatewood’s Walk and a staff writer at 15 b/w photos, 3 maps the Tampa Bay Times. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize cloth, $26.99 (CAN $35.99), 978-1-61373-430-8 in 2010 and has won many other national writing awards. Adobe PDF, $26.99 (CAN $35.99), 978-1-61373-431-5 EPUB, $26.99 (CAN $35.99), 978-1-61373-433-9 Kindle, $26.99 (CAN $35.99), 978-1-61373-432-2 Rights: World October NEW IN 2016 5 LUCIE AUBRAC The French Resistance Heroine Who Outwitted the Gestapo Siân Rees “Fascinating. A calm, judicious, and gripping account of these tangled events.” —Sunday Times Brilliant, intensely political, and inseparable for nearly 70 years, Lucie Aubrac and her husband, Raymond, are legendary figures of the French Resistance. Founding leaders of Libération-Sud, one of the most important resistance movements in France, they ran the underground newspaper Libération and served as couriers, arms carri- ers, and saboteurs. In 1943, when the Gestapo imprisoned Raymond, Lucie engineered a dar- ing escape plan that brought her face to face with feared Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie. When Raymond was arrested again, Lucie mounted a second astonishing rescue, ambushing the prison van that was transporting him. For the postwar was Lucie Aubrac? What did she really do in generation, the Aubracs were heroes. However, 1943? Siân Rees’s penetrating account—the first in 1983, Klaus Barbie made the bombshell claim English-language biography of this extraordinary that the Aubracs had become informers in 1943, woman—provides a long-needed corrective betraying their comrades.