The migration of the hipster: A Chicago history, 1898-present
Tag: Theodore Dreiser
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National Geographic’s top ten literary cities
Chicago is not one of the top ten literary cities, per National Geographic
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Help Fund a Chicago Literary Hall of Fame
The Chicago Writers Association hosts Deck the Hall, a benefit for the proposed Chicago Literary Hall of Fame
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“Bertram Cope’s Year”: Chicago’s forgotten gay masterpiece
This is a repost, ’cause I think it’s interesting In the early 20th century Henry Blake Fuller was one of Chicago’s most famous writers, with a number of prominent realist novels under his belt and friendships with leading lights such as Thornton Wilder, Jane Addams, and Carl Van Vechten. He worked for the Saturday Evening […]
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A Brighter Summer Day
Bearing in mind Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy, this astonishing 230-minute epic by Edward Yang (1991), set over one Taipei school year in the early 60s, would fully warrant the subtitle “A Taiwanese Tragedy.” A powerful statement from Yang’s generation about what it means to be Taiwanese, superior even to his recent masterpiece Yi Yi, […]