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Review: A Unique, Grassroots Biography of Chicago, The Plan of Chicago: A City in Stories by Barry Pearce

One of the many fascinating things about a city like Chicago is how the lives of millions of strangers are unknowingly intertwined. Barry Pearce gets at this in a savvy […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • November 14, 2025
    • Children's books , Comics and Graphic Novels , Essays , Fiction , Lists , Lit , Nonfiction , Short Stories , Writing

    Banned Books Week: Writers Recall the “Forbidden” Books of Their Youth

    It’s Banned Books Week, and while it’s not a week to celebrate, per se, it’s one to faithfully observe. Those who would ban books offer different reasons for their desire […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • October 6, 2025
    • Fiction , Interviews , Lit , Nonfiction , Poetry , Short Stories , Writing , Zines

    Chicago Lit/Arts Zine The Ground Is Uneven Seeks Contributors

    When it came time to choose between literature and the law, Adam Kaz went with the written word. Now the writer, editor, and critic (and regular contributor to Third Coast […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • August 5, 2025
    • Chicago history , Fiction , Lit , Short Stories

    Review: This Is Life: Rediscovered Short Fiction, by Frank London Brown

    We mostly remember movements through supernaturally charismatic entities who said the right thing at the right time, sparking action, winning souls, and rewriting history. In reality, every movement is made […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • June 7, 2025
    • 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
    • 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
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