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Celebrating Excellence: Our Best of the Net Award Nominees 22-23

Dear readers, It is with immense pride and excitement that we bring you this special announcement today. We are thrilled to share that...

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

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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....

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...