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The Chicago education of George Saunders
The celebrated short-story writer and recent debut novelist discusses his formative years in and around the city of his birth.
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I Sailed With Magellan vs. The House on Mango Street: Greatest Chicago Book tournament, round two
The last bout of round two features two semiautobiographical story collections by two poets-turned-fiction-writers about growing up in changing Chicago neighborhoods.
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So what is a great Chicago book anyway?
Some more thoughts about greatness and Chicago-ness at our tournament’s halfway point.
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The Adventures of Augie March vs. I Sailed with Magellan: Greatest Chicago Book Tournament, round one
In a contest between work by two Chicago masters, our judge decides that one is great while the other is a great cure for insomnia.
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More of the best books I read this year
A Reader writer looks back on a year in reading.
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Our favorite books of 2014
A look back at the year in lit, from the best reads by Chicago authors to new bookstores and live-lit events.
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Printers Row Lit Fest preview
Printers Row Lit Fest’s 30th year brings hundreds of authors and booksellers to the South Loop.
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Is Stuart Dybek one of the greatest-ever Chicago writers?
His new collection, Paper Lantern, makes a pretty good case.
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Spring Books Issue: Secrets
Spring Books Issue: How Julia Glass, Colson Whitehead, and other writers are harnessing the power of the unknown in their latest books.
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Reader’s Agenda Mon 3/17: Chicago Story Week, Indian, and Porn and Chicken
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Monday, March 17
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“Dimensional Lines” at the Evanston Art Center
Designers and artists combine concepts in clothing, art, sculpture, and architecture for a new exhibit.
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Augie March-inspired flash fiction contest
Submit your 750-word version of the Great American Novel to a flash fiction writing contest.
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12/2 — Chicago Sound Drops at the Chicago Cultural Center
Tonight at 7 PM, the Chicago Cultural Center (78 E. Washington) hosts Chicago Sound Drops as part of the Third Coast International Audio Festival’s Listening Room series.
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Aleksandar Hemon & Audrey Niffenegger on Chicago, 9/14, and more Granta events
The authors of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Love and Obstacles discuss “how artists and writers from around the world represent Chicago in their work” tonight at the Chicago Cultural Center. It’s just the beginning of Granta‘s Chicago issue festivities: Alex Kotlowitz, Maria Venegas, and Stuart Dybek read Thursday at Harold Washington Library; and photographer […]