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The Associated Press reports that J.D. Salinger has died at age 91. If you weren't sure that he was still living, then Salinger was effective at...
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Prose. Poems. A Novel. Jamie Iredell Orange Alert Press $14 Any time I read a book that experiments with form I’m both excited and skeptical: Is...
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You've probably seen issues of The Common Review in literary dens in Chicago. Though it's distributed in over 300 bookstores nationwide, The Review's...
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The Great Books Foundation wants to get you talking books. In the past few years, the Chicago-based nonprofit educational organization has raised its...
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The Chicago Tribune's book section, Printers Row, is hosting a cocktail reception "to celebrate the continued success and support of the...
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The 2nd Hand, a broadsheet and literary menagerie founded in Chicago, has launched a regular reading series at Quimby's. The venerable indie stalwart...
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Hi, I’m Duffer and I’m a nonposter. It’s been six weeks since my last post and I feel like an...
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It’s been a breakout year since Nami Mun’s debut novel, Miles Form Nowhere, was released at the onset of 2009. Since then, she was one of...
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The performance reading series that hosted a legendary literary smackdown at The Metro to cap its inaugural year is gearing up for its second-annual...
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- UPTOWN POETRY SLAM, Sundays 7PM, $6, The Green Mill
- TWILIGHT TALES, most Mondays,7:30, $4 (suggested), Red Lion Pub
- RUI: READING UNDER THE INFLUENCE, first Wednesday/month, 7:30, $3, Sheffield's
- THE RECONSTRUCTION ROOM, first Wednesday/month, 8PM, FREE, Black Rock Bar
- 2ND STORY, second Sunday/month, 7PM, $10, Webster's Wine Bar
- QUICKIES! second Tuesday/month, 7:30, FREE, Innertown Pub
- RED ROVER READING SERIES, second Saturdays, no one's quite sure where and when
- LITERARY GANGS OF CHICAGO, third Tuesday (October-May), 6:30, FREE, Musuem of Contemporary Arts
- LOCAL AUTHOR NIGHT, third Wednesday/month, 7:30, FREE, The Book Cellar
- PALABRA PURA POETRY, third Wednesday (except Aug and Dec), 8PM, FREE, usu. @ California Clipper
- SAPPHO'S SALON, third Saturday/month, 7PM, $8 (suggested), Women and Children First Bookstore
- WINDY CITY STORY SLAM, last Tuesday/month, 8PM, $5 (suggested), Quennect 4 Gallery
- SUNDAY SALON CHICAGO, last Sunday/month, 7:30, FREE, The Charleston Bar
- THE TAMALE HUT READING SERIES, variable Saturdays/month, 7:30, FREE, The Tamale Hut Cafe
- THE PARLOR READS, variable monthly
- ORANGE ALERT READING SERIES, fourth Sunday, FREE, The Whistler
- BOOKSLUT READING SERIES, variable monthly, 7:30, FREE, Hopleaf
