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The Best Literary, Film, and Seasonal Stuff Happening in Chicago This December
The critics' picks for the most fun miscellany in the city through year's end.
Making the most of winter in Chicago
Living in Chicago means having a complimentary lifetime pass to complain about winter all you like. But true Chicagoans know when to bury that pass deep in their parka pockets...
Six Questions for Amina Cain
The founder of the Red Rover reading series returns to Chicago to promote her new book, Creature, at Logan Center for the Arts tonight.
See the Author of Help for the Haunted at Two Local Readings
John Searles is on tour for a new book. Title aside, this is no simple ghost story.
A Chicago Author Self-Published This Beautiful Children's Book
How Adam Kline and Brian Taylor raised the funds to produce Lucy and the Anvil at a Michigan printing press.
James Kennedy Makes a Book Reading Into Performance Art
With the author's tributes to his literary pals, a book event becomes a bombastic, surreal fiction of its own.
Veronica Roth Is the New Teen Lit Superstar
The Chicago author’s fantasy lit series may be the next Twilight or Hunger Games. And she hasn’t even cracked 30.
With the CTA, it’s all about the ride
I stood waiting for a train to work the other day, looking for something to amuse me while I waited. I don't get anxious waiting--it's going to come when it...