A Literary Look Back at 2019
The Third Coast Review Lit Department had a very full year, with new writers Patrick T. Reardon, Terry Galvan, and…
Review: Sarah Vowell’s Acerbic “Past and Present” Closes Chicago Humanities Festival
Narrative nonfiction titan Sarah Vowell closed the diverse and well-curated Chicago Humanities Festival’s 30th anniversary “Power” juggernaut Sunday at Francis…
Review: Madeline Miller, Author of Best Seller Circe, Charms at Chicago Humanities Fest
By Valerie Nikolas Power. It’s the theme of this year’s Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF), now in its 30th year of…
Rachel Maddow’s Blowout, Impeachment Porn and Martini Recipe at Chicago Humanities Festival
Emmy Award-winning host of the eponymous MSNBC program Rachel Maddow made a book tour stop on October 12 at McCormick…
All You Need Is Lovecraft—Bucket O’ Blood’s 3rd Annual Lovecraft Death Day Soirée
Plenty of writers have mastered their craft, but few have fostered a genre. Howard Phillips Lovecraft—purveyor of pulp fictional cosmic…
VGA Limned the Video Star—Interview with Tiffany Funk of the Video Game Art Reader
What’s the status of art in state of the art video games? Do pixelated citizens have a sense of aesthetics?…
Books-a-Seven-Thousand: Pilsen Community Books to Host First Annual Book Sale, October 5–6
Mary Gibbons, co-owner of Pilsen Community Books says her store had a bevy of books… Nay—a surfeit of books… Strike that—a…
Third Coast Audio Festival Puts Chicago at the Center of Podcasting for Two Weeks
Long before the podcast, there was Third Coast International Audio Festival. Since 2000, Third Coast has been a leader in…
She Wore Red Shoes by the Newsstand: An Interview with The Gold Pawn Author L.A. Chandlar
New York-based writer L.A. Chandlar is the author of The Silver Gun and the just-published The Gold Pawn, the first two…
Folk(tale) Hero: An Interview with Author Edward McClelland
I wish I could describe Edward McClelland in legendary terms—it would be so damned apropos. I’d tell you he’s…
Commune With the City’s Dead In New Book About Chicago Cemeteries, Chicago Eternal
Cemeteries remind us this is a city of change in multiple ways. Not just the impermanence and fragility of life,…
Sick of the Same Old Gifts?
Gift-giving season is upon us, and with it the existential dread that comes with finding the perfect present. In our…
