The Book Cellar in Chicago, Ill., hosted the launch party for Bryan Gruley's crime fiction novel Bitterfrost (Severn House). Gruley (r.) was in conversation with Jonathan Eig (King: A Life). The two met and became friends when both worked for the Wall Street Journal, where Gruley earned a shared Pulitzer Prize for the newspaper's coverage of the 9/11 attacks. They have been each other's first reader and writing partner ever since. (photo: John Bychowski)