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 […]
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Note from an editor
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 […]
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Megan Stielstra interviewing Samantha Irby: The right way to meet in real life
Two rising literary stars talk shop on the occasion of their new books.
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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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826CHI and CPS team up to produce an anthology of monster stories from young authors
Students at Brentano Math and Science Academy learn how to write, with proper grammar and punctuation—and they like it.
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Curiosity’s Cats and the joys of research
A new essay collection shows just how exciting dusty old libraries can be.
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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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Chicago authors share their secrets
Chicago authors with spring books coming out share methods for combating writer’s block and other secrets.
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Playwright Rebecca Gilman’s moral dilemmas
Rebecca Gilman’s Luna Gale shows the humanity behind a battle to determine the fate of an infant.
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2013: The year of our 100th Key Ingredient
The past year of our chef-to-chef challenge has included lobster guts, durian, and pig uterus (some of it a little burned).
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What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival 2013
What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival: Robots, pigs, Bambi, and more
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Culture Vultures: Illustrator Matthew LaFleur recommends the webcomic Space-Mullet
Chicagoans recommend the webcomic Space-Mullet, a pair of contemporary art mags, and Lisa Alvarado’s Still, Life
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This week’s Chicagoan: Margie Kruse, court reporter
This week’s Chicagoan is Margie Kruse, court reporter
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Susan Nussbaum’s next act
Celebrated playwright and disability rights activist Susan Nussbaum adds a novel, Good Kings Bad Kings, to her body of work.