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Chicago author releases next novel for free

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:19:08 -0500

Bryan Alaspa is releasing his next novel Gone for free through digital publication with kindles and smart phones.

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Sequential Showcase: Templar, Arizona

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:35:57 -0500

Check out our latest Sequential Showcase on local cartoonist C. Spike Trotman's web comic Templar, Arizona.

sequentialchicago.com

Local writers celebrate the Science of Obscurity with the Chicago Underground Library

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:08:05 -0500

Join us for an evening of new, unpublished, and in-progress works presented as science fair experiments, featuring a public book launch via catapult and the mass purging of rejection letters--community literary rituals in need of revival!

underground-library.org

Sci-Fi and Left Politics Convention Comes to Chicago

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:10:18 -0500

Chicago hosts the Think Galacticon convention devoted to science fiction and left politics this weekend, June 26 through the 28th, at Roosevelt University.

thinkgalactic.org

The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair, 1893

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:30:51 -0500

Uncle Jeremiah, Aunt Sarah and their two grandchildren, Fanny and Johnny, come from their downstate dairy farm to Chicago for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.

manybooks.net

Officials Hope to Turn Chicago into a Hub for Independent Publishing

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:57:51 -0500

The city’s Department of Cultural Affairs wants to make Chicago into a vibrant publishing destination. It’s hired a former editor from "Poetry" magazine, Danielle Chapman, to galvanize the industry.

chicagopublicradio.org

Printers Row Lit Fest in pictures

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:11:11 -0500

This year's Printers Row Fest happened this past weekend and offered attendees a chance to hear and meet a bevy of excellent writers and other figures in the publishing industry.

chicagoist.com

Clouted U of I Admission Makes Case for Reform

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:09:19 -0500

Coming clean on a clouted University of Illinois academic admission invites reconsideration of that admission process which blesses some with future success @ the expense of thousands of other middlin

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Printers Row: Judging books by their titles

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:06:31 -0500

Random guesses at the content of books featured at the Printers Row Lit Fest.

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Ragdale Presents...Tania James

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:53:43 -0500

Author reading, book signing and wine and cheese to celebrate the publication of Tania James' ATLAS OF UNKNOWNS. Friday, June 12, 6:30pm at The Book Stall of Winnetka, 811 Elm Street.

ragdale.org