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Hopeful Hearts in Highland Park is author Maggie Duplace Schmieder’s attempt to make sense out of something senseless. She and…

Interview: Volition’s Brian Traficante on an All New Saints Row and What to Expect

It’s been a while since Champaign-based developers Volition have been in the final countdown to a big release. After all,…

If you’ve spent any time with Star Trek growing up or now as an adult, you’re probably aware of its…

Numerically speaking, 2/22/22 (today), has a special resonance for Chicago area writer, editor, and teacher Richard Thomas. His latest book,…

David Anthony Witter was born in Miller, Indiana—“across the lagoon from Nelson Algren’s summer home,” as he puts it—but has…

Inspiration is almost like divine intervention. There you (or someone else) are, living your life, totally unaware that the next…

Patrick T. Reardon, a regular contributor to Third Coast Review, recently released his new book, The Loop: The “L” Tracks…

Tell us a bit about yourself and your writing career. It’s hard for me to believe my writing “career” has…

Chicago writer Kathleen Rooney recently released her latest novel, Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey. A fictional retelling of the true…

From her Walmart Harmony acoustic guitar, the Slammer Hammer Stratocaster, getting into Gibson Guitars, and even her Sheraton Epiphone, Emily…

Gint Aras (Karolis Gintaras Žukauskas) has been trapped on planet Earth since 1973. He is the author of two novels,…

Interview conducted by contributing writer Terry Galvan Julia Fine is a recent graduate of Columbia College Chicago’s MFA program. She…