Designing the Future: Chicago's Brandon Lamar Rials Blends the Cultures of Fashion and Motorsports
Brandon Lamar Rials, an auto designer turned graphic designer turned fashion designer turned entrepreneur, has embraced the nonlinear life
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The Lingering Effects of Flash Fiction: An Interview with Tommy Dean
Tommy Dean is the author of two flash fiction chapbooks, Special Like the People on TV (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014) and Covenants (ELJ...
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A Change in View by Jacob Nantz
How Unconventional Venues Shed New Light—and New Meaning—on Old Loves At the end of June of this year, the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis...
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A Review of Mandira Pattnaik’s Where We Set Our Easel by Dave Nash
From the beginning of her composition, Mandira Pattnaik sets the hue for Where We Set Our Easel when she writes, “In surreal vignettes,...
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The Unbearable Weight of Memory
A Review of Ingrid Rojas Contreras' The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Amy Scheiner Memoir is the recreation of memory on the page. In the...
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Good Life Better by Jacob Nantz
How Manchester’s Past Drives Its Output of Music, Football, and Joy There’s a fine line between using the past to validate the present...
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Taking Big Swings: An Interview with Darren C. Demaree
by Dave Nash I had the pleasure of reading Darren C. Demaree’s latest poetry collection, the luxury, in advance of our interview....
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Urban Farmer for the World
A Look at the Patience and Persistence Behind Chicago’s Food Revolution by Jacob Nantz If we understand the genesis of our present, we...
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Ascension by Jen Knox
My husband, a food researcher, introduced me to the concept of mouthfeel. The term refers to the physical sensation of a food or...
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They’ve Got Next:
Where Basketball Matters Most, Full Courts Are Hard to Find by Jacob Nantz It’s nice to have a place to go. I don’t mean a scheduled...
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Exes and Martinis by Monica Prince
I have my first martini in a bar called the Corner Office in Denver, three months after I turn twenty-one in 2011. For her twenty-first...
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Follow the Whisper: An Interview with Chelsea Stickle
I had the opportunity to read an advanced copy of Chelsea Stickle’s upcoming flash chapbook, Everything’s Changing. I enjoyed being swept...
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Fight Songs by Jacob Nantz
The East and West Aurora High School basketball teams have played 230 times, making it one of the most storied rivalries in the country....
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Giving Pets a Home for the Holidays by Shaindel Beers
We’ve all seen holiday commercials where children pad down the stairs in their matching Christmas pajamas to find a puppy or a kitten...
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You Can’t Take This from Me, FIFA:
On the World Cup, Parenthood, and Extracted Joy from Broken Systems by Jacob Nantz My son is three weeks old and rests on my chest just...
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A Review of Joan Kwon Glass’ Night Swim by Terri Linn Davis
If I allow myself to sit with the feeling, to name what comes after losing someone to suicide, my thoughts, as always, drift to metaphor;...
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A Review of Joan Kwon Glass' How to Make Pancakes for a Dead Boy by Daniel Flosi
One of the most fascinating things about writing, to me, is connecting an experience and emotion with a reader. It’s thrilling, really....
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Embrace the Fictional Spiral: An Interview with Darren C. Demaree
By Elizabeth Walztoni Darren C. Demaree's latest book, a collection of prose poems entitled clawing at the grounded moon, was recently...
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What Victory Living
A Review of Darren C. Demaree's clawing at the grounded moon By Ike Pickett A book of urgency and catastrophe, Darren C. Demaree’s...
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Technology and Human Connection
A Review of Yuvi Zalkow’s I Only Cry with Emoticons. By Jillian Pincus Yuvi Zalkow’s I Only Cry with Emoticons tells the story of a...
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