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Chicago Is Lit: Printers Row Lit Fest and More September Events

2023 Printers Row Lit Fest images, credit Robert Kusel

Avid book lovers can be a solitary bunch—after all, it’s hard to lug our stacks (and stacks) of books around a party. But that is exactly what’s about to go […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • September 2, 2024
    • Events , Interviews , Lit , Live lit events , Poetry

    Chicago Is Lit: August Live Literature Events and Readings

    Poems While You Wait crafting original typewritten poetry-on-demand

    This month’s column explores another reason Chicago’s literary scene is “lit”: the wide variety of live literature events held in neighborhoods across the city. From conversations with award-winning authors to […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • August 3, 2024
    • Fiction , Lit

    Review: Peeling Away the Layers of Two Lives, Civilisation Francaise, by Mary Fleming

    Chicago-born Mary Fleming’s Civilisation Francaise is a novel of layers. Layers slowly peeled away for the reader to learn the stories of the book’s two central characters, Madame Quinon, an […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • July 23, 2024
    • Children's books , Events , Fiction , Lists , Lit , Nonfiction

    Chicago Is Lit: July Author Events & Book Releases

    New books Pretty, Until Next Summer, Hombrecito and Keyana Loves School

    Chicago’s literary scene is, in a word, “lit”: from the Midwest’s largest free outdoor literary festival to pop-up typewritten poetry encounters to the nation’s only museum devoted to American writers, […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • June 28, 2024
    • Lit , Reviews

    Review: Iliana Regan’s Fieldwork Digs Down to the Root

    Iliana Regan is a Michelin-starred chef and owner of Milkweed Inn deep in the Hiawatha Forest. Regan’s memoir, Fieldwork, recently celebrated its paperback release. It couldn’t have come at a […]

  • Caroline Huftalen
  • June 24, 2024
    • Events , Fiction , Interviews , Lit

    Interview: Ananda Lima Launches Fiction Debut With Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

    Ananda Lima’s fiction debut, Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, launches at Women and Children First this Friday, June 21. Filled with double meanings, a very meta perspective, rebellions […]

  • Caroline Huftalen
  • June 20, 2024
    • Fiction , Lit

    Review: Trapped in Abby Geni’s The Body Farm

    The characters in The Body Farm span across generations, backgrounds, lifestyles, and conflicts, but they all seem to share one thing: they’re trapped.  This is Abby Geni’s second short story […]

  • Allison Manley
  • June 19, 2024
    • Event , Events , Fiction , Lit , Live lit events , Reviews

    Review: The Body Keeps Score in A Small Apocalypse by Laura Chow Reeve 

    Laura Chow Reeve’s debut short story collection A Small Apocalypse is, like any good collection these days, thematically rich. It is mostly about young queer characters in the present day, […]

  • Allison Manley
  • June 18, 2024
    • Art & Museums , Design , Gallery , Installation , Lit , Museum , Nonfiction

    Review: Putting on the Glitz—Driehaus Museum’s Jewelry Exhibit and Ellie Thompson’s Designing American Jewelry Book

    As we navigate the current Gilded Age, it’s helpful to reflect on the last one. The Driehaus Museum at 40 East Erie is showcasing 200 pieces of dazzling past and […]

  • Karin McKie
  • June 17, 2024
    • Art & Museums , Lit , Mixed media , Nonfiction

    Review: 44 Posters, Weeds Tavern, by Dave Hoekstra and Sergio Mayora

    Weeds Tavern is a bar biography, but something more, and slightly less. More or less an artist’s monograph, SunTimes writer and critic Dave Hoekstra covers the titular Chicago tavern’s background […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • June 14, 2024
    • Dialogs , Events , Lit , Live Lit , Music , Nonfiction , Pop , Stages

    Dialogs: Reggie Watts Celebrates Glorious Black Nerds at the Old Town School

    Reggie Watts is far more than James Corden’s bandleader on the former The Late Late Show. He’s an innovative musician (keyboard, looping machine, beatboxer), dry comedian, wearer of cool geometric […]

  • Karin McKie
  • June 14, 2024
    • Dialogs , Events , Lit , Music , Nonfiction , Stages , Talk show

    Dialogs: Feminist Punk Kathleen Hanna at the Chicago Humanities Festival’s Illinois Tech Day

    Kathleen Hanna, founding Riot Grrrl, Bikini Kill frontwoman and the person who told Kurt Cobain that he smelled like teen spirit, is currently on tour to promote her memoir Rebel […]

  • Karin McKie
  • May 28, 2024
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