Exile in Bookville co-hosted, with StoryStudio Chicago, the 2024 Chicago Review of Books Awards (CHIRBys) at the Fine Arts Building in downtown Chicago. The winners included: (l.-r.) Daniel Borzutsky (poetry, The Murmuring Grief of the Americas); Jami Nakamura Lin (nonfiction, The Night Parade); Laura Rodríguez Presa (essay/short story, for her piece "After 25 years of selling tamales in Chicago, an undocumented immigrant mother returns to Mexico without her family" in the Chicago Tribune); Lindsay Hunter (fiction, Hot Springs Drive); Parneshia Jones, director of Northwestern University Press (Adam Morgan Literary Leadership Award). (photo: Sara Cutaia, StoryStudio Chicago)