Friday, December 4th, 2009
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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Friday, December 4th, 2009
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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This weekend, the literacy nonprofit Open Books unveils its new three-story, 15,000 sq ft literacy center. The grand opening in its old River North...
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Quick trivia: which of the four writers in the image is the poet? Though the writers pictured here look as if they're obligated to pose for a brutal...
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One week remains for the biannual Guild Literary Complex Very Short Fiction and Nonfiction Contests. The Chicago-based Guild is known for its...
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Publishers Weekly, the trade standard for books, is celebrating its first National Bookstore Day across the country and all over the internet....
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There's still a day left to submit your story to the Chicago Reader's ninth annual fiction supplement. The deadline is Friday, November 6th....
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Tuesday Funk reading series as part of Gothic Funk.(disclaimer: I was asked to read before I made them a Friday Feature a few months back--I had to...
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Since Halloween is the new New Years, MAKE Magazine presents a reading with complimentary comfornt food Jimmy John's samiches on Sunday (11/1/09). Not...
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As an adult, revisiting essences of childhood is usually an exercise in disappointment. The thing that is missing now I can only call the boundless...
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