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Essay: I Choose the Spring of Hope Instead of Trump’s Winter

Each morning, I wake up to two stories.  One is loud and distressing, shrilly demanding attention.  The other is quiet, ​gentle and calm. One is like being caught in a […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • April 24, 2025
    • Architecture , Beyond , Chicago history , Chicago history , Children's books , Comics and Graphic Novels , Fiction , Lit , Nonfiction , Poetry

    Essay: In Defense of “Unregulated” Little Free Libraries

    Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th) thinks the little free libraries along many Chicago sidewalks are bad—very bad. They are “unregulated”! And they’re “popular”! And many of them are planted in city soil! (Collective […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • October 12, 2023
    • Lit , Poetry

    Review: Singing the Song of Us—The Lost Tribes, by Patrick T. Reardon

    Reviewed by Michael Leach Patrick Reardon’s epic poem The Lost Tribes is a cri du coeur as thrilling for our time as Alan Ginsberg’s Howl was for his. It celebrates […]

  • Guest Author
  • September 30, 2022
    • Lit , Poetry , Reviews

    Review: Poetry Collection Darkness on the Face of the Deep Takes Risks with Emotional Depths

    Darkness on the Face of the Deep by Patrick T. Reardon Kelsay Books Review by Renny Golden In Darkness on the Face of the Deep, Third Coast Review writer Patrick […]

  • Guest Author
  • October 2, 2021
    • Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: The Loop: The ‘L’ Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago, by Patrick T. Reardon

    The Loop: The ‘L’ Tracks that Shaped and Saved Chicago by Patrick T. Reardon Southern Illinois University Press Reviewed by Mary Wisniewski  There are lovelier and more prestigious symbols of […]

  • Guest Author
  • November 25, 2020
    • Events , Interviews , Lit , Live lit events , Nonfiction

    Interview: Third Coast Review Writer Patrick T. Reardon Keeps Us in the Loop with New Book

    Patrick T. Reardon, a regular contributor to Third Coast Review, recently released his new book, The Loop: The “L” Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago (SIU Press). More than a […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • November 19, 2020
    • Essays , Lit , Reviews

    Essay/Book Review: Founding American Towns on Paper, Cities of the American West, Part 2

    Cities of the American West: A History of Frontier Urban Planning By John W. Reps Princeton University Press, 827 pages, out of print, available on the internet starting at $40 […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • June 11, 2020
    • Essays , Lit , Reviews

    Essay/Book Review: The Vast Chicago Street Grid, Cities of the American West, Part 1

    Cities of the American West A History of Frontier Urban Planning By John W. Reps Princeton University Press, 827 pages, available on the internet starting at $40 Part One of […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • June 4, 2020
    • Architecture , Beyond , Chicago history , Design , Lit , Reviews

    Review: Deep South Side, Lee Bey’s Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side

    Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side By Lee BeyNorthwestern University Press, 192 pages, $30 Reviewed by Patrick T. Reardon When Lee Bey writes about Pride Cleaners, he […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • December 23, 2019
    • Lit , Poetry

    Book Review: Take Me to the Rivers—Renny Golden’s The Music of Her Rivers: Poems

    The Music of Her Rivers: Poems By Renny Golden University of New Mexico Press, 87 pages, $18.95 Reviewed by Patrick T. Reardon The Pueblo boy with “thick hair…the color of […]

  • Guest Author
  • December 12, 2019
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