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Review: Take a Vulgar Picture, Vivian Maier Developed, by Ann Marks

Vivian Maier snapped pictures of a thousand other lives while making the lightest impression on life herself. In her biography Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny, […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • December 2, 2024
    • Chicago history , Chicago history , Comedy , Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: Exploding Myths: Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports by Mark Jacob and Matthew Jacob

    We want to hear from you! Take our brief reader survey now and share your feedback on what you love at Third Coast Review—and what we could be doing better! Plus, everyone […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • November 12, 2024
    • Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction , Writing

    A Letter: To the Man with the Red Checkered Shirt, Funny Hat, and Cigar

    We want to hear from you! Take our brief reader survey now and share your feedback on what you love at Third Coast Review—and what we could be doing better! Plus, everyone […]

  • Guest Author
  • November 11, 2024
    • Chicago history , Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: Trying to Avoid Dystopia—Cry My Beloved America by Alexander Polikoff

    We want to hear from you! Take our brief reader survey now and share your feedback on what you love at Third Coast Review—and what we could be doing better! Plus, everyone […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • November 1, 2024
    • Fiction , Lit , Nonfiction

    I Was a Teenage Featured Creature: Midwestern Horror Writers Share Recent Fictional Horrors

    We want to hear from you! Take our brief reader survey now and share your feedback on what you love at Third Coast Review—and what we could be doing better! Plus, everyone […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • October 31, 2024
    • Food , Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: Trees of Wind, Fire and Light—Pine by Laura Mason

    Here’s a thought: Somewhere in the American Southwest—the exact location is a highly guarded secret—is a Great Basin bristlecone that botanists and foresters estimate to be 4,500 years old. It […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • October 24, 2024
    • Chicago history , Food , Lit , Live lit events , Nonfiction

    Review: Malört—Chicago History in a Bottle

    He had been warned. At a recent house concert in Printers Row, Pat Byrne, a soulful Irish troubadour based in Texas, bravely took a swig of the yellow liquid, scrunched […]

  • June Sawyers
  • October 11, 2024
    • Chicago history , Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction , Suburbs and exurbs

    Review: Winning through Infrastructure—Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent by John William Nelson

    The key moment in John William Nelson’s important, original, and eye-opening history of the place that became the city of Chicago—Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • October 10, 2024
    • Dialogs , Interviews , Lit , Live Lit , Nonfiction , Stages

    Dialogs: SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Shares Her New Memoir Lovely One at Chicago Humanities Festival

    Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson inaugurated the Chicago Humanities Festival’s autumn 2024 season in front of a packed, enthusiastic crowd at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance. In […]

  • Karin McKie
  • September 25, 2024
    • Chicago history , Essays , Events , Fiction , Lit , Live lit events , Nonfiction , Poetry , Previews , Zines

    Chicago Is Lit: Printers Row Lit Fest and More September Events

    2023 Printers Row Lit Fest images, credit Robert Kusel

    Avid book lovers can be a solitary bunch—after all, it’s hard to lug our stacks (and stacks) of books around a party. But that is exactly what’s about to go […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • September 2, 2024
    • Children's books , Events , Fiction , Lists , Lit , Nonfiction

    Chicago Is Lit: July Author Events & Book Releases

    New books Pretty, Until Next Summer, Hombrecito and Keyana Loves School

    Chicago’s literary scene is, in a word, “lit”: from the Midwest’s largest free outdoor literary festival to pop-up typewritten poetry encounters to the nation’s only museum devoted to American writers, […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • June 28, 2024
    • Art & Museums , Design , Gallery , Installation , Lit , Museum , Nonfiction

    Review: Putting on the Glitz—Driehaus Museum’s Jewelry Exhibit and Ellie Thompson’s Designing American Jewelry Book

    As we navigate the current Gilded Age, it’s helpful to reflect on the last one. The Driehaus Museum at 40 East Erie is showcasing 200 pieces of dazzling past and […]

  • Karin McKie
  • June 17, 2024
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