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Dialogs: Talks About Tyranny Triumph at the Chicago Humanities Fest and ACLU Lunch

For “Lakeview Day 2025,” the Chicago Humanities Festival featured two tyranny experts, each for an hour-long interview followed by a brief Q&A, on April 27 at the Athenaeum Theatre. The […]

  • Karin McKie
  • May 6, 2025
    • Comics and Graphic Novels , Fiction , Interviews , Lit , Live lit events , Nonfiction , Poetry

    Book Smarts: Secret World Books of Highland Park—Third Space for the North Shore

    Capitalism abhors a creative gathering place—otherwise auto dealerships would put on poetry slams and hardware stores would host book clubs, wouldn’t they? While coffeehouses and restaurants often step up to […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • April 23, 2025
    • Fiction , Interviews , Lit

    Interview: Author Tod Lending Talks About Finding Hope Amid Nazi Horrors in The Umbrella Maker’s Son

    On the book cover, two men in shadow walk down a misty street. They are wearing armbands with the Star of David. The title reads The Umbrella Maker's Son.

    Chicago author Tod Lending’s debut novel The Umbrella Maker’s Son is a cinematic page-turner of a book. Set against the Nazi rise to power before World War II, this heartfelt […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • March 9, 2025
    • Interviews , Lit , Music , Nonfiction

    Review: The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir, by Neko Case

    Before a full house at the Fine Arts Building’s Studebaker Theater, singer-songwriter Neko Case appeared on stage in conversation with Lior Phillips, a Chicago-based South African music journalist. Case received […]

  • June Sawyers
  • February 8, 2025
    • Chicago history , Interviews , Lit

    Book Smarts: The Armadillo’s Pillow in Rogers Park

    Welcome (back) to Book Smarts, a semi-regular series profiling Chicago’s bookstores and their owners. We began the series way back in 2020…then the pandemic happened. As bookstores closed, the series […]

  • Binx Perino
  • February 4, 2025
    • Fiction , Interviews , Lit

    Interview: “Body Horror at Every Turn”: Peter O’Keefe and Counted with the Dead

    Born in Detroit, writer Peter O’Keefe now lives in one of Chicago’s neighbors to the north, Racine. Through the years he’s written for everything from “word processing temp jobs” to […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • January 23, 2025
    • Fiction , Interviews , Lists , Lit , Nonfiction

    Best of 2024: The Third Coast Review Lit Section

    The Third Coast Review Lit section has continued to grow in its coverage of the city and region’s ongoing literary scene. Below, several of TCR’s Lit writers share their favorite […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • January 1, 2025
    • Children's books , Dialogs , Events , Film & TV , Interviews , Lit , Live lit events

    Dialogs: “The Only Moral Is Run!” – R. L. Stine at the Chicago Humanities Festival

    This Guest Post was written by Holly Smith I entered the Music Box Theatre with anticipation. I was there to see the first episode of the Goosebumps TV show and […]

  • Guest Author
  • October 30, 2024
    • Fiction , Interviews , Lit

    Interview: Scott Kenemore on Space Horror and More

    Scott Kenemore is a horror writer from the Midwest who has lived in the Chicago area since 2004. Best known for his zombie trilogy Zombie Ohio, Zombie, Illinois, and Zombie, Indiana—“which […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • October 29, 2024
    • 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
    • Interviews , Lit , Poetry

    Interview: Ruben Quesada on His New Collection, Brutal Companion

    Ruben Quesada is a poet and editor of the award-winning anthology Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry. His poetry and criticism have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Best American Poetry, The Believer, Harvard […]

  • Binx Perino
  • October 15, 2024
    • Events , Interviews , Lit , Live lit events , Zines

    Feature: The Red Devil Lady Presides Over Chaotic Fun – Quimby’s and Zine Club Chicago’s Anniversary Celebration

    By Guest Author Holly Smith The Mothership “Quimby’s is the mothership,” proudly declares Cynthia E. Hanifin, producer of Zine Club Chicago which often meets at the bookstore at 1854 W. […]

  • Guest Author
  • October 12, 2024
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