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Review: Street Art and Gentrification are the Focus of Streetopia

Erick Lyle’s Streetopia hits shelves this month. The book is a collection of works from 24 San Francisco artists and writers associated with the “New Mission School” street art movement. […]

  • Sherry Zhong
  • October 16, 2016
    • Fiction , Lit

    Fresh Local Lit: “Tabernacle for Drinkers” from Iggy Aloysius’ Fishhead. Republic of Want

    Fishhead. Republic of Want is an experimental novel by Ignatius Valentine Aloysius. It’s a layered metafictional work in the style of Cervantes and Borges, where Fate (Destiny) is the story’s overarching narrator, […]

  • Guest Author
  • October 4, 2016
    • Fiction , Lit , Reviews

    Review: Brian Doyle’s Chicago— A 300 Page Love Letter

    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 […]

  • Guest Author
  • October 3, 2016
    • Lit , Live Lit , Live lit events , Previews

    Preview: Celebrate French Culture with Performance Poetry

    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 […]

  • Brianna Kratz
  • September 29, 2016
    • Beyond , Fiction , Lit , Reviews

    Fresh Local Lit: An Excerpt from Iggy Aloysius’ Fishhead. Republic of Want

    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 […]

  • Guest Author
  • September 28, 2016
    • Lit

    Open Books: Used Bookstore Benefits Community

    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 […]

  • Sherry Zhong
  • September 24, 2016
    • Beyond , Lit , Live lit events

    Kill Your Darlings Closes with Stories about the Chicago Tradition of Books and Booze

    [soliloquy id=”6938″]   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 […]

  • Emma Terhaar
  • September 23, 2016
    • Audio , Front page , Lit , Live lit events

    Third Coast Rewind: Another Chance to Kill Your Darlings

    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 […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • September 13, 2016
    • Art & Museums , Lit , Photography

    “A Calling, Not a Job” Project&’s Working in America

    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 […]

  • James Orbesen
  • September 12, 2016
    • Front page , Lit , Live lit events , Previews

    It’s the Finale of Kill Your Darlings, A Live-Lit Mash-Up: On 9/14 We Explore Saloon/Lit Culture

    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 […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • September 10, 2016
    • Lit

    First Look: Curbside Records and Books Rocks Revival Food Hall

    [soliloquy id=”6537″]   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 […]

  • Marielle Bokor
  • September 4, 2016
    • Lit , Live lit events , Stages

    This Is Modern Art: Synchronicity of the Week

    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 […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • August 26, 2016
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