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A conversation between Maya Dukmasova and WBEZ’s Alden Loury about the state of accessible, affordable housing in Chicago

by Chicago Reader January 20, 2021August 18, 2021

Online book launch party Wednesday, January 20, 6 PM – 7:30 PM CST

Posted inCity Life

Walking in a holi-daze

by Salem Collo-Julin December 25, 2020August 18, 2021

Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator

Posted inCity Life

Mapping out a reader’s delight

by Salem Collo-Julin August 28, 2020August 18, 2021

Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator

Posted inFood & Drink

My new book is bulletproof

by Mike Sula August 14, 2020August 18, 2021

50 stories. Hundreds of animals. Some laws broken.

Posted inCity Life

Not only in my dreams

by Salem Collo-Julin July 31, 2020August 18, 2021

What our listings coordinator is musing about this week

Posted inArts & Culture

The Chicago Independent Bookstore Map

by Salem Collo-Julin and Amber Huff July 24, 2020August 18, 2021

Chicago has been frequently touted as a writer’s town; a place where writers can work on their craft and thrive. Of course writers are nothing without an audience to read them, and the bevy of bookstores in Chicagoland is one indication that we’re also a reader’s town—not just a place where people make books, but […]

Posted inArts & Culture

The Beauty of Your Face isn’t afraid to get ugly

by Deanna Isaacs July 22, 2020August 18, 2021

In Sahar Mustafah’s debut novel, The Beauty of Your Face, a terrorist attack opens a window on the story of a Palestinian American family in Chicago.

Posted inReader

We’ve brought together twenty of Leor Galil’s best music features from the past ten years in one book

by Chicago Reader May 12, 2020August 18, 2021

Best of Chicago Reader, Volume 1

Posted inNews & Politics

Covert

by Liesl Olson April 27, 2020August 18, 2021

On being a mother, the apocalypse of the interior life, and sheltering in place on the other side of Lake Michigan.

Posted inArts & Culture

Eye 94 opens readers’ ears

by Salem Collo-Julin December 11, 2019August 18, 2021

Lumpen hosts the only terrestrial radio show in the midwest devoted to books and authors.

Posted inCity Life

Let the people get lit

by Salem Collo-Julin May 29, 2019August 18, 2021

Reading out of the (free book) box

Posted inArts & Culture

Meltdown at Pitchfork

by Dmitry Samarov April 9, 2019August 18, 2021

An excerpt from Music to My Eyes

Posted inBlogs

Making All Black Lives Matter: Barbara Ransby talks politics and protesting in 2018

by Julia Hale October 10, 2018August 18, 2021

At a book talk Tuesday at the SEIU Healthcare headquarters in Pilsen, Barbara Ransby discussed her book Making All Black Lives Matter.

Posted inMusic

Andrew Smith throws Jungle Green’s homemade songs at a bigger wall—will they stick?

by Leor Galil August 22, 2018August 18, 2021

Chicago singer-songwriter Andrew Smith has promoted Jungle Green’s homemade songs mostly by sending them to people who reply to flyers he’s taped to lampposts. Fortunately he’s also made some well-connected fans.

Posted inBlogs

Books we can’t wait to read in 2018

by Aimee Levitt December 31, 2017August 18, 2021

Bill Clinton has written a thriller about a missing president! And nearly 100 other ways to escape the oncoming shit show.

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