On Monday, the students will release I Will Hold You Like a Bible, a chapbook showcasing their poetry and short stories from the past school year.
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The League’s Steve Rannazzisi and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
Trade Routes: A Festival of Artistic Exchange and more events the weekend of Friday 12/8-Sunday 12/10
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A new book from 826CHI shows how friendships develop through letter writing
P.S. You Sound Like Someone I Can Trust collects correspondence between students on the north and south sides of Chicago.
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What to check out at Printers Row 2017
Everything that’s free at the annual fest (except Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Al Franken)
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We need the Read/Write Library now more than ever
The Humboldt Park institution has taken an unconventional approach to being a “city library,” and it’s only growing more ambitious.
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Pitchfork Music Festival 2016 preview
Reader writers round up the locals on Pitchfork’s bill, guide fans of hip-hop and R&B into the rest of the roster, discuss the gender balance of the fest’s bookings, and much more.
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826CHI and CPS students publish a monster of an anthology
Fourth- and fifth-graders from Brentano Math and Science Academy explore their imaginations in The Monster Gasped, OMG!
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826CHI and CPS team up to produce an anthology of monster stories from young authors
Students at Brentano Math and Science Academy learn how to write, with proper grammar and punctuation—and they like it.
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Arts groups and educators show solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter
“We want the activists to know we are grieving and enraged and that the events of last week showed us we need deeper change, but we don’t know how to make it happen.”
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See 826 Chicago students interview Peter Cottontale, Single Mothers, Mourn, and more
The Reader followed four intrepid teenage journalists while they interviewed musicians during the final day of this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival.
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See 826 Chicago students interview Parquet Courts, Protomartyr, and Jimmy Whispers
The Reader followed a few intrepid teenage journalists while they interviewed musicians at this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival.
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Reader’s Agenda Sat 4/26: Group 312, Prom9, and Bobby Rush
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Saturday, April 26
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How Long Will I Cry? is a huge success for Big Shoulders Books
And yet the new publisher hasn’t sold a single copy.
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One more high-rise story
An alum of the housing projects learns of a project to document his childhood home.
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Be seen on the zine scene
Chicago Zine Fest presents a ton of exhibitors and a heap of how-tos.