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Adam Morgan is a culture journalist and critic who lives near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His writing has appeared in Esquire, WIRED, Scientific American, Inverse, The Paris Review, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. He is the author of A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature (December 9, 2025 from Simon & Schuster).

Adam is represented by Natalie Edwards at Trellis Literary Management. He is also the founding editor of the Chicago Review of Books, the Southern Review of Books, and the Chicago Literary Archive.

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	A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature 3.79 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2025 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	North Carolina'Äôs Wild Piedmont: A Natural History 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best Hikes Near Chicago (Best Hikes Near Series) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I didn’t have time to make this pretty (and I pasted publicity copy instead of writing them up myself), but here’s an incomplete list of 2022 books about Chicago and/or by Chicagoans, including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. It’s based on an Edelweiss search I ran in February, so more books will be added in the coming months, particularly for the back half of the year. Also, some small presses d

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Ahab's Return: A Haunting Moby-Dick Retelling – Captain Ahab Hunts Ishmael in Gothic 1800s New York

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