Here’s what happened when writer Terry Southern and photographer Michael Cooper flew in to cover it—with William S. Burroughs and Jean Genet along for the ride.
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Books we can’t wait to read: The back half of 2016 edition
There’s plenty to look forward to in the rest of 2016.
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Small deco masterpieces in a New Yorker rip-off
The archives of the Chicagoan, a Depression-era arts and culture magazine, have been put online.
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Culture Vultures: Cirque du Soleil’s Ovo, Man U versus Chicago Fire, and more
In-the-know Chicagoans tell the Reader what they’re watching, reading, and seeing
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Tonight: more interesting (and mostly free) lit events than I can possibly sum up in a headline
* 57th Street Books hosts a launch party for Sara Paretsky’s latest V.I. Warshawski novel, Hardball. “Now Warshawski’s starring in her 13th mystery, and both she and her maker are at the top of their form,” writes Kathie Bergquist. * Kathy Griffin signs her memoir at Borders on Michigan. * The veteran literary journalist Tracy […]