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Posted inFeature

Sandra Cisneros feels the love of the universe

by Aaron Cohen September 6, 2022September 6, 2022

When Sandra Cisneros talked about romance, writing, and faith over Zoom from her bright home in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, she discussed her own poetry but also referred to Peanuts. In the strip Lucy complains about not finding love while ignoring Snoopy’s embrace. Almost on cue, Cisneros then got a face lick from Nahui […]

Posted inReader

We’re winners!

by John Dunlevy September 22, 2020January 31, 2023

The Reader brought home some AAN Awards.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Note from an editor

by Aimee Levitt August 26, 2019August 18, 2021

About four years ago, the Gage Gallery at Roosevelt University mounted an exhibition of photographs from the Reader’s black-and-white era, which ended in 2004. The gallery is small, maybe three rooms, and on opening night, it was packed with old Reader people, many of whom had flown back to Chicago from wherever they’d moved to […]

Posted inArts & Culture

Megan Stielstra interviewing Samantha Irby: The right way to meet in real life

by Aimee Levitt July 26, 2017August 18, 2021

Two rising literary stars talk shop on the occasion of their new books.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Chicago education of George Saunders

by Tal Rosenberg February 21, 2017August 18, 2021

The celebrated short-story writer and recent debut novelist discusses his formative years in and around the city of his birth.

Posted inBlogs

826CHI and CPS team up to produce an anthology of monster stories from young authors

by Aimee Levitt December 16, 2015August 18, 2021

Students at Brentano Math and Science Academy learn how to write, with proper grammar and punctuation—and they like it.

Posted inBlogs

Curiosity’s Cats and the joys of research

by Aimee Levitt May 16, 2014August 18, 2021

A new essay collection shows just how exciting dusty old libraries can be.

Posted inArts & Culture

Spring Books Issue: Secrets

by Chicago Reader April 15, 2014August 18, 2021

Spring Books Issue: How Julia Glass, Colson Whitehead, and other writers are harnessing the power of the unknown in their latest books.

Posted inArts & Culture

Chicago authors share their secrets

by Chicago Reader April 15, 2014August 18, 2021

Chicago authors with spring books coming out share methods for combating writer’s block and other secrets.

“The fun of writing plays,” Rebecca Gilman says, “is that you have to inhabit everyone’s point of view. Everybody, no matter how hideous, thinks they’re justified.”
Posted inArts & Culture

Playwright Rebecca Gilman’s moral dilemmas

by Aimee Levitt January 15, 2014August 18, 2021

Rebecca Gilman’s Luna Gale shows the humanity behind a battle to determine the fate of an infant.

Top: mussel-orange gummy by Matthew Kirkley, guinea hen with braised celery by Ryan LaRoche, durian custard by Lee Wolen, stir-fried pig uterus by Abraham Conlon; bottom: tripe sausage by John Asbaty, cock's combs with green peanut mole by Andres Padilla, halibut with sun-dried tomatoes by Peter Coenen, and pine sap ice cream by Dana Cree
Posted inFood & Drink

2013: The year of our 100th Key Ingredient

by Julia Thiel December 24, 2013August 19, 2021

The past year of our chef-to-chef challenge has included lobster guts, durian, and pig uterus (some of it a little burned).

Posted inArts & Culture

What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival 2013

by Steve Bogira, Aimee Levitt, Janet Potter, Connie Vaughn and Sam Worley November 13, 2013August 19, 2021

What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival: Robots, pigs, Bambi, and more

Posted inArts & Culture

Culture Vultures: Illustrator Matthew LaFleur recommends the webcomic Space-Mullet

by Chicago Reader October 2, 2013August 19, 2021

Chicagoans recommend the webcomic Space-Mullet, a pair of contemporary art mags, and Lisa Alvarado’s Still, Life

Posted inNews & Politics

This week’s Chicagoan: Margie Kruse, court reporter

by Anne Ford June 13, 2013August 19, 2021

This week’s Chicagoan is Margie Kruse, court reporter

Nussbaum in her Lakeview apartment
Posted inArts & Culture

Susan Nussbaum’s next act

by Sam Worley May 30, 2013August 19, 2021

Celebrated playwright and disability rights activist Susan Nussbaum adds a novel, Good Kings Bad Kings, to her body of work.

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