
About the reviewer: Susannah Pratt is a Chicago-based consultant by day, reader/writer by night, who is currently preparing for the forthcoming winter by stocking up on books. You can find more of […]
About the reviewer: Susannah Pratt is a Chicago-based consultant by day, reader/writer by night, who is currently preparing for the forthcoming winter by stocking up on books. You can find more of […]
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the “sister city” cultural partnership of Chicago and Paris, the Chicago Sister Cities Paris Committee presents French Connection 2016 at The Poetry Foundation on Friday, […]
Fishhead. Republic of Want is an experimental novel by Ignatius Valentine Aloysius in the style of Cervantes and Borges, where Fate is the overarching narrator, addressing love and human behavior within hunger’s grip. […]
Open Books‘ two stores in the West Loop and Pilsen are brightly decorated, and the shelves are filled with prose, poetry, and everything in between. You can find anything from new publications […]
Third Coast Review’s Live Lit Series Kill Your Darlings: A Live Lit Mash-up ended last week with an evening themed around literature, alcohol and the storytelling tradition that ties the two […]
Welcome back to Third Coast Rewind. We’re back with another installment of readings from Kill Your Darlings. This is the second edition of the podcast that puts the spotlight on Third Coast […]
Chicago icon and national treasure Studs Terkel made a career out of chronicling the stories of others. A new art exhibit, opening September 14th at the Harold Washington Library, is very much […]
Third Coast Review and Tree Falls Productions conclude Kill Your Darlings, their series of “live-lit/improv mashups” on Wednesday, September 14. That night will be devoted to Lit itself and we’ll explore Chicago’s saloon culture and […]
Curbside Splendor, a darling of the Chicago indie lit scene, has always struck us as unafraid. They started as a ’90s punk rock band, after all, and somehow parlayed that into […]
Carl Jung might call it synchronicity because this is a meaningful coincidence, albeit also accidental. Wednesday night at a live lit event I told the story of the play This Is Modern […]
What would happen if you crossed a literary festival with a pub crawl? No need to imagine, Lit Crawl Chicago is a real event happening this Thursday in Andersonville. Brought to you […]
Running through Sunday, the 30th annual Newberry Book Fair is the place to be for any bibliophile. Here are some things to look forward to: Lots of books The Newberry Library says […]