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News & Politics, Feature Apr 27, 2018
Peek inside these local bookstores—then visit in person on Indie Bookstore Day

Saturday is the perfect time to scour the shelves of Chicago's bevy of local book nooks.
- By Jamie Ramsay
- Tags: Feature, Books, bookstores, indie book store day, chicago, chicagogram, read, literature

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 2, 2016
How a DePaul English professor became an art-history sleuth

Kathleen Rooney wondered why she couldn't find an English translation of Magritte's writings, so she figured out how to release one on her own.
- By Janet Potter
- Tags: Fall Preview, Kathleen Rooney, Rene Magritte, Rene Magritte Selected Writings, Eric Plattner, University of Minnesota Press, Art Institute of Chicago, Flammarion, visual art, literature, DePaul University

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 2, 2016
Gary Younge’s quest to ensure that ten lives aren’t ten shooting deaths

In a forthcoming book, the author and onetime Chicagoan explores American gun violence by telling victims' life stories.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Fall Preview, Gary Younge, Nation Books, Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives, literature, gun violence

Blogs, Bleader Sep 26, 2014
Reader's Agenda Fri 9/26: 13th Floor Haunted House, Banned Books Week, and the Raveonettes

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, September 26
- By Megan Thielking
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Agenda, Raveonettes, 13th Floor Haunted House, Banned Books Week, Halloween, Literature

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature May 7, 2013
The art of disability on display at Bodies of Work

The festival puts people with disabilities on the stage, on the screen, behind the mike, and—just as importantly—in the audience.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Bodies of Work Festival, Carrie Sandahl, disability, UIC, UIC Department of Disabilitiy and Human Development, University of Illinois-Chicago, stereotypes, outside art, theater, literature, poetry, novels, visual art, dance, Ginger Lane, Lisa Bufano, Momenta, Stephen Dwoskin, film, Yolanda Cursach, MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ballet Black, Mayor's Office for People With Disabilities, accessibility, Americans With Disabilities Act, ADA

Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures Feb 14, 2013
This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:

How Should a Person Be?, Blood Oath Improv, and Monsters and Dust
- By Janey Lee and Hannah Lorenz
- Tags: Culture Vultures, MAKE, Blood Oath Improv Group, Featherproof Books, Zach Dodson, Monsters & Dust, Aay Preston, Aay Preston-Myint, Joe Proulx, M&D, Chris Pappas, Jordan Williams, Nitewerk, Alex Valentine, Brian Case, Joshua Hauth, Scott Cowen, Laura Pearson, Torian Miller, Trevor Kravits, Ryan Hake, Ricky Staffieri, Adam Ston, Jared Popkin, books, literature, design, Blood Oath Improv, improv, Pop stache, Will Neved, Gift Theatre Company, How Should a Person Be?, Sheila Heti, Carl Wilson, essays, Celine Dion

Blogs, Bleader Apr 12, 2012
" . . . and Joyce had a secretary named Keith"

The deceptively clever "James Joyce or Kool Keith?" Web quiz
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Books, Music, James Joyce, Kool Keith, quiz, rap music, literature, Hudson Hongo, the Internet

Blogs, Bleader Jan 25, 2012
Coal play

Hiroshi Teshigahara's Japanese ghost story Pitfall screens tonight at Chicago Cultural Center.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Film, Performing Arts, Arts, Books, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Pitfall movie, J.R. Jones, Chicago Cultural Center, Toru Takemitsu, Kobo Abe, Century Club, The Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another, The Man Without a Map, Peter Grilli, Criterion Collection, French New Wave, Luis Bunuel, Los Olvidados, Knox College, Michael A. Schneider, Mat Ryohei Matsuda, Orna Shaughnessy, Robin Metz, Elizabeth Carlin-Metz, Vitalist Theatre of Chicago, The Ghost Is Here, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, theater, literature, movies

Blogs, Bleader Jan 11, 2010
The Soft Boner of Classic American Literature

Katie Roiphe thinks that impotence and feminism have contributed to the decline of the Great Male Novelists. Really, it's porn and diversity.
- By Amanda Hess
- Tags: The Sexist, Katie Roiphe, New York Times, feminism, literature, sex writing

Blogs, Bleader Jul 21, 2009
OK, more moon blogging
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Lit & Lectures, Books, W.H. Auden, Moon Landing, Musee des Beaux Arts, Alan Shepard, Apollo 11, poetry, literature

Blogs, Bleader Jul 14, 2009
"Bertram Cope's Year": Chicago's forgotten gay masterpiece
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, LGBT, Lit & Lectures, Books, Henry Blake Fuller, Bertram Cope's Year, literature, Chicago literature, Bertram Cope, The Cliff-Dwellers, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, literary realism, American literature, Northwestern University, gay literature, the Awakening, Edmund Wilson

News & Politics, Media Jul 9, 2009
A Short Story in the Palm of Your Hand

Punk Planet’s Dan Sinker believes you really do want to read on your phone.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, Lit & Lectures, Media, Books, Dan Sinker, CellStories, media, technology, literature, Punk Planet, Chicago Reader, Akashic Books, Kindle, Columbia College

Blogs, Bleader Jun 8, 2009
Put it on your radar II/Why Twitter rules

Granta's looking for submissions about Chicago, if you're willing to pony up for international mail.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: News, Chicagoland, Literature, Granta

Blogs, Bleader Oct 29, 2008
I wish you way more than luck

David Lipsky on the life and death of DFW.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: News, Chicagoland, Literature, David Foster Wallace

Blogs, Bleader Sep 15, 2008
On David Foster Wallace

RIP, DFW
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: News, Chicagoland, Literature, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Good People

Blogs, Bleader Feb 1, 2008
"The thriller concept is why humans invented storytelling"

The 10th annual "Love Is Murder" conference, this weekend in the burbs.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: News, Chicagoland, Literature, Lee Child, Love is Murder

Blogs, Bleader Jan 18, 2007
Field and Street

Nature writers would do us all a favor by staying in town.
- By Harold Henderson
- Tags: Environmentalism, William Cronon, Literature, Jenny Price, Nature writing, Jerry Sullivan

Blogs, Bleader Jan 4, 2007
Science fiction and literature, the grudge match

Is any sci-fi good?
- By Harold Henderson
- Tags: Science fiction, Literature, Kurt Vonnegut, David Marusek

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Jun 17, 2004
Alain de Botton
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Literature, Philosophy, History, Romance, Society, Writer, London, Psychology, Self-Help

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Saturday is the perfect time to scour the shelves of Chicago's bevy of local book nooks.

Kathleen Rooney wondered why she couldn't find an English translation of Magritte's writings, so she figured out how to release one on her own.

In a forthcoming book, the author and onetime Chicagoan explores American gun violence by telling victims' life stories.

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, September 26

The festival puts people with disabilities on the stage, on the screen, behind the mike, and—just as importantly—in the audience.

How Should a Person Be?, Blood Oath Improv, and Monsters and Dust

The deceptively clever "James Joyce or Kool Keith?" Web quiz

Hiroshi Teshigahara's Japanese ghost story Pitfall screens tonight at Chicago Cultural Center.

Katie Roiphe thinks that impotence and feminism have contributed to the decline of the Great Male Novelists. Really, it's porn and diversity.

Punk Planet’s Dan Sinker believes you really do want to read on your phone.

Granta's looking for submissions about Chicago, if you're willing to pony up for international mail.

David Lipsky on the life and death of DFW.

RIP, DFW

The 10th annual "Love Is Murder" conference, this weekend in the burbs.

Nature writers would do us all a favor by staying in town.

Is any sci-fi good?

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