MT. OLYMPUS, MIAMI BY MATT GAJEWSKI: Part five in the summer serial
ART CAN’T HURT YOU BY LAURA M. BROWNING: A public work of art proves to be unexpectedly disconcerting
BY LELAND CHEUK: A fiction writer walks onto a stand-up open mic stage…
A preview of this year’s “Print <3 Digital” Chicago Printers’ Ball, and the work of Delicious Design League
FICTION BY MICHAEL ZAPATA: “Being sixteen is a disease. Money is a disease. So are cities. Then there are diseases which are like chain reactions.”
SIMPLICITIES BY JANINA A. LARENAS: Everything is fair game in an infusion
PRESSING ISSUES BY LAURA PEARSON: W.S. Merwin, Lynda Barry, I Write Like, the Tin House controversy, Chicago’s Printers Ball, and more
RECORDS BY THEIR COVERS BY LEVI FULLER: Setting ‘em up and knocking ‘em down
PRETENTIOUS MACHO THEATER BY R. JOHN XERXES: Remembering Harvey Pekar, warts and all
MT. OLYMPUS, MIAMI BY MATT GAJEWSKI: Part four in the summer serial
MOONY HABITATIONS BY LEILANI CLARK: David Shields’ Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and deliberate unartiness
FICTION BY FERDINAND E. HINTZE: “I fixed whatever failed on people’s computers, and people left me alone while I trolled the internet for classic television artifact auctions”
LAST EVENINGS ON EARTH BY MIKE ZAPATA: Any Chicagoan worth his or her weight in amor or ruckus will have a rooftop story for you
A PHOTO ESSAY BY SCOTT MACDONALD: Ohio feels awkward and endearing. Lazy and earnest. Charming and repulsive; lonely but loving.
THE SCHEME OF SPACES BY LYNETTE D’AMICO: Re-imagining the subtext of the doll
BY MATTHEW BECK: “Scrubbing her ivory hands of the earth ingrained into the crevices of her lanky fingers Rosemary Sepulveda has just completed her soil sculpture of Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein.”
A FINE LINE BY CAT JOHNSON: How an iconic sign reflected a changing city
Paul M Davis