On the morning of April 24, a Gmail notification appeared on my phone: “One new message from Juanna Rumbel.” Juanna Rumbel is the derby name of writer, storyteller, and stand-up comedian, Elizabeth Gomez. […]
Celebrate the art of self-publishing this weekend at Chicago Zine Fest. It’s one of the city’s largest independent festivals. The seventh annual festival is happening this Friday and Saturday. All-ages events will […]
Everyone’s a critic, and yet no one seems to know what a critic’s good for. Or at least this is how New York Times film critic A. O. Scott started off his […]
This month, University of Chicago Press released a translation of Papi, the best selling novel by Dominican writer, Rita Indiana. This is the first english translation of Indiana’s work. Papi is the […]
Experimental Japanese translations. Interviews with National Book Award finalists. Mexican Twitter fiction. Ancient Babylonian texts and contemporary underground Uyghur poetry. These are just a few of the offerings from literary translation journal Asymptote. Asymptote has […]
I first heard Zoe Zolbrod read in a coffee shop in Logan Square a couple months ago. She was skinny, 40s-ish, and had arm tattoos and a mane of silver streaked dark […]
I recently had the opportunity to talk to book critic, author, and fellow Gapers Block alumnus, Adam Morgan, about his newly launched site, Chicago Review of Books. As a lit-loving localvore, few […]
“Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, […]
When I looked at the gathering again, almost all of the heads were turned toward me. Nearly two hundred pairs of eyes stared at me. The band stopped playing suddenly. I knew […]
I’m Brianna Kratz, a Chicago poet and literature enthusiast. In 2016, I’m reading only women authors for my Read Only Women Experiment (R.O.W.E.). For weekly updates on challenges, conversations, and round-up lists […]
A select group of high school-aged Chicago lyricists will take the stage at Roosevelt University’s Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress Pkwy., Saturday for the finals of the 2016 Louder Than A Bomb […]
I’m Brianna Kratz, a Chicago poet and literature enthusiast. In 2016, I’m reading only women authors for my Read Only Women Experiment (R.O.W.E.). For weekly updates on challenges, conversations, and round-up lists […]
