Rick Kogan might be sentimental—just don’t call him a sentimentalist.
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This week’s Chicagoan: Tricia Jolliff, fan-fiction writer
This week’s Chicagoan is Tricia Jolliff, fan-fiction writer.
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This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:
Chicagoans recommend the Rebuilding Exchange, the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, and more.
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Silk Road Rising’s “Mosque Alert” enlists the global community
Silk Road Rising’s play in progress, “Mosque Alert,” crowdsources controversy.
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A writer picks at the family scab in Other Desert Cities
Goodman Theatre stages Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities.
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More on Joe Meno’s Office Girl
The Book Cellar hosts a release party for Joe Meno’s Office Girl on Thursday, June 28th
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The fragile legacy of literary journalism
A Cavalcade of Lesser Horrors traces the fragile legacy of literary journalism
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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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What a Deal! 50% Off Your Job Prospects!
Groupon wanted me to sign a noncompete clause, even though I might never work there either.
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Writing workshops at 826Chi 6/18-8/13
Writing classes for kids include art criticism and sportswriting.
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Local Lit: Irvine Welsh-spotting
Since the spectacular success of his first novel, Trainspotting, ten years ago, Scottish writer Irvine Welsh has solidified his reputation as the profane scribe of the drug-addled and disenfranchised, producing four more novels in addition to multiple novellas, plays, and short stories. He’s also gotten into film production, journalism, teaching, and humanitarian work on behalf […]
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Funny Girl
Before the kids, writer Amy Krouse Rosenthal was just another subversive chick. Now she picks brain lint in coffeehouses.