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  • Fiction , Interviews , Lit

Interview: Richard Thomas: New-Weird, Hopepunk, Horror, and More

Richard Thomas is a Mundelein-based author of, as he describes it, “maximalist speculative fiction—mostly fantasy, science fiction, and horror.” With more than 175 published stories to his credit, he’s been […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • October 28, 2024
    • Fiction , Lit , Short Stories

    Review: Information Without Substance in Let The Scaffolds Fall by Shaun Rouser

    Short stories exist in the literary world somewhere between the novel and the dirty joke. Their readers want the accouterments of a novel delivered in the most expedient, gut-punchy way […]

  • Adam Kaz
  • October 16, 2024
    • Children's books , Dialogs , Events , Fiction , Lit , Live lit events , Writing

    12 Years of Crafting Mad Science: Kate McKinnon Discusses Her New Book The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science

    By Guest Writer Holly Smith A Cosplayer Welcome As I sat down in the Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture to see a live interview with comedian Kate McKinnon about […]

  • Guest Author
  • October 9, 2024
    • Events , Fiction , Lit

    2024 One Book, One Chicago Celebrates Intersection of Gaming, Art, and Literacy

    Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks at the 2024 One Book, One Chicago unveiling at Harold Washington Library Center

    As a child, going to the library with my mother was a beloved weekly event. I vividly remember browsing through the hard-copy card catalog and wandering the stacks searching for […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • September 7, 2024
    • Chicago history , Essays , Events , Fiction , Lit , Live lit events , Nonfiction , Poetry , Previews , Zines

    Chicago Is Lit: Printers Row Lit Fest and More September Events

    2023 Printers Row Lit Fest images, credit Robert Kusel

    Avid book lovers can be a solitary bunch—after all, it’s hard to lug our stacks (and stacks) of books around a party. But that is exactly what’s about to go […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • September 2, 2024
    • Fiction , Lit

    Review: Peeling Away the Layers of Two Lives, Civilisation Francaise, by Mary Fleming

    Chicago-born Mary Fleming’s Civilisation Francaise is a novel of layers. Layers slowly peeled away for the reader to learn the stories of the book’s two central characters, Madame Quinon, an […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • July 23, 2024
    • Children's books , Events , Fiction , Lists , Lit , Nonfiction

    Chicago Is Lit: July Author Events & Book Releases

    New books Pretty, Until Next Summer, Hombrecito and Keyana Loves School

    Chicago’s literary scene is, in a word, “lit”: from the Midwest’s largest free outdoor literary festival to pop-up typewritten poetry encounters to the nation’s only museum devoted to American writers, […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • June 28, 2024
    • Events , Fiction , Interviews , Lit

    Interview: Ananda Lima Launches Fiction Debut With Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

    Ananda Lima’s fiction debut, Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, launches at Women and Children First this Friday, June 21. Filled with double meanings, a very meta perspective, rebellions […]

  • Caroline Huftalen
  • June 20, 2024
    • Fiction , Lit

    Review: Trapped in Abby Geni’s The Body Farm

    The characters in The Body Farm span across generations, backgrounds, lifestyles, and conflicts, but they all seem to share one thing: they’re trapped.  This is Abby Geni’s second short story […]

  • Allison Manley
  • June 19, 2024
    • Event , Events , Fiction , Lit , Live lit events , Reviews

    Review: The Body Keeps Score in A Small Apocalypse by Laura Chow Reeve 

    Laura Chow Reeve’s debut short story collection A Small Apocalypse is, like any good collection these days, thematically rich. It is mostly about young queer characters in the present day, […]

  • Allison Manley
  • June 18, 2024
    • Essays , Fiction , Lit , Museum , Nonfiction , Poetry , Writing

    Review: Watching the Writer’s Mind Work, Write Cut Rewrite: The Cutting Room Floor of Modern Literature, by Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon

    Everyone, I suppose, has a sense of the what-if of history. What if Abraham Lincoln hadn’t gone to Ford’s Theater that night and avoided assassination? What if I had taken a […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • May 10, 2024
    • Comics and Graphic Novels , Fiction , Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: In Evil Eyes Sea, Two Women Uncover a Mystery at the Heart of Turkish Culture: by Özge Samancı

    Evil Eyes Sea is preoccupied with objects: how they become imbued with their owners’ lives and remain after those people are gone. In her autobiographically-inspired graphic novel, Özge Samancı skillfully […]

  • Devony Hof
  • May 4, 2024
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