Recommended John McNally: Among the stories in his new collection, Ghosts of Chicago (Jefferson Press), dedicated to the fiction writing department at Columbia College, are some finely crafted homages to Chicago icons: Frazier Thomas considers his deep and dependent relationship with Garfield Goose, Siskel and Ebert get into a nasty wrestling match in the snow after a movie, Walter Payton and the Fridge bond on a road trip.
Quickies: Readings of very short prose, featuring James Kennedy (The Order of Odd-Fish)
Notable Martin Atkins presents Tour:Smart: And Break the Band; Stephen Kinzer (Overthrow et al) discusses "John Foster Dulles: The Man Who Shaped the Modern World"; Clinton Kelly of TLC's What Not to Wear; Neil Harris presents The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age
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