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Dialogs: Five-Star Authors in a Five-Star City

The Chicago Humanities Festival brought two midwest authors to Northwestern’s campus last Saturday afternoon and a packed crowd of literature lovers. Rebecca Makkai and Indiana’s John Green had the audience […]

  • Caroline Huftalen
  • November 14, 2024
    • Fiction , Lit , Reviews , Short Stories

    Review: Crawling into Puloma Ghosh’s Mouth

    Puloma Ghosh takes full advantage of the mouth’s symbolic potential in Mouth, a debut collection of weird, subversive stories. These horror and horror-adjacent stories are about women, identity, relationships, and […]

  • Allison Manley
  • November 13, 2024
    • Chicago history , Chicago history , Comedy , Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: Exploding Myths: Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports by Mark Jacob and Matthew Jacob

    We want to hear from you! Take our brief reader survey now and share your feedback on what you love at Third Coast Review—and what we could be doing better! Plus, everyone […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • November 12, 2024
    • Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction , Writing

    A Letter: To the Man with the Red Checkered Shirt, Funny Hat, and Cigar

    We want to hear from you! Take our brief reader survey now and share your feedback on what you love at Third Coast Review—and what we could be doing better! Plus, everyone […]

  • Guest Author
  • November 11, 2024
    • Chicago history , Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: Trying to Avoid Dystopia—Cry My Beloved America by Alexander Polikoff

    We want to hear from you! Take our brief reader survey now and share your feedback on what you love at Third Coast Review—and what we could be doing better! Plus, everyone […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • November 1, 2024
    • Fiction , Lit , Nonfiction

    I Was a Teenage Featured Creature: Midwestern Horror Writers Share Recent Fictional Horrors

    We want to hear from you! Take our brief reader survey now and share your feedback on what you love at Third Coast Review—and what we could be doing better! Plus, everyone […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • October 31, 2024
    • 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
    • Food , Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: Trees of Wind, Fire and Light—Pine by Laura Mason

    Here’s a thought: Somewhere in the American Southwest—the exact location is a highly guarded secret—is a Great Basin bristlecone that botanists and foresters estimate to be 4,500 years old. It […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • October 24, 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
    • 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
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