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Lit & Lectures, Lit Sidebar, Oct 9, 2012
Avoid the Saint Patrick's Day rush

IBAM offers an Irish experience without the green foil hats
- by Meg Pier
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, Irish Books Art and Music, IBAM, James Joyce, Stephen Rea, Phil Coulter, Damian McGinty, Seamus Heaney, Maurice Fitzpatrick, Morgan Llywelyn, Martin Lyons, Mark Ervine, Richard Moore

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Lit & Lectures, Lit Sidebar, Aug 8, 2012
Calling all fanboys, geeks, and cosplayers

The 2012 Chicago Comic Con is in session
- by Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, nerds, geeks, comics, Tom Felton, Harry Potter, Bruce Campbell, Stan Lee, Star Trek, James Marsters, Star Wars, Nick Gillard

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Lit & Lectures, Lit Sidebar, Jun 6, 2012
Herding authors at the Printers Row Lit Fest

Two days and a couple square blocks of literacy
- by Rebecca Cohen
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, Printers Row Lit Fest, Dan Rather, Michael, Czyzniewjewski, Dmitry Samarov, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Jesmyn Ward, Jules Feiffer, Adlai E. Stevenson III, Alex Kotlowitz, Buzz Bissinger, Gillian Flynn, Femal Protagonists in Thrillers, Jonathan Eig, Jim Newton, Stacy Cordery, Natalie Dykstra, Charlie Newton, Brigid Pasulka, Samuel Park, Natalie Bakopoulos, Marisel Vera, Rachel DeWoskin, Charles Joly, Brian Gruley, Kevin Guilfoile

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Lit & Lectures, Lit Sidebar, Mar 14, 2012
The dreams are on them

Columbia College’s Story Week Festival of Writers
- by Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, publishing, Columbia College, AWP conference, Shawn Shifflet, Christine Sneed, Nami Mun, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Donna Seaman, Eli Horowitz, Dagoberto Gilb, Achy Obejas, John Sayles, Kevin Coval, Audrey Niffenger, Jerome Ludwig

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Lit & Lectures, Lit Sidebar, Feb 23, 2012
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference and book fair

It's here, and it's big
- by Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, Association of Writers & Writing Programs, publishing, books, Carol Ann Duffy, Philip Levine, Audrey Niffenberger, Aleksander Hemon, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Lifeline Theatre, Windy City Queer

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Lit & Lectures, Lit Sidebar, Feb 23, 2012
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Louder Than a Bomb 2012

The teen poetry slam enters its tenth year
- by Jacob Yeung
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, Louder Than a Bomb, Slideshow

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Food & Drink, Food & Drink News, Oct 27, 2011
Soup and Bread Cookbook

Building community one pot at a time
- by Julia Thiel

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Lit & Lectures, Lit Sidebar, Oct 6, 2011
Light-fingered reading

Rachel Shteir's The Steal offers a cultural history of shoplifting
- by Julia Thiel
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, Rachel Shteir, The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting, stealing, shoplifting, Sir Samuel Romilly, National Retail Security Survey, loss-prevention agents, five-finger discount, Shoplifting Act

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Lit & Lectures, Lit Sidebar, Oct 6, 2011
From abbey beers to zymurgy

The Oxford Companion to Beer:the last word on suds
- by Julia Thiel
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, Oxford Companion to Beer, beer history, beer, Brooklyn Brewery, encyclopedia, Lager Beer Riot, Siebel Institute, tied houses, craft brewing

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Lit & Lectures, Lit Sidebar, Sep 15, 2011
Our four top literary picks for fall

Chicago Humanities Festival, Alison Bechdel, Daniel Clowes, Women's Voices Weekend, and more
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, Fall Arts Preview 2011, Alison Bechdel, Best American comics 2011, Mairead Case, Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, Ghost World, The Death-Ray, Seth, Women's Voices Weekend, Donna Seaman, Chicago Humanities Festival

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Lit & Lectures, Lit Sidebar, Sep 8, 2011
Fucking launched

Dan Sinker's The F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel comes out in book form
- by Julia Thiel
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, @mayoremanuel, Dan Sinker, The F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel, book launch, Atlantic Magazine

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Lit & Lectures, Lit Sidebar, Aug 18, 2011
Luminarium, the dense new novel by Chicago writer Alex Shakar
- by Pat J. Daily
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, Alex Shakar, Luminarium, 9/11

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Lit & Lectures, Lit Sidebar, Jun 2, 2011
Printers Row: all lit up by the fest
- by Sallyann Price
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, Printer's Row Lit Fest, Chicago Tribune

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Lit & Lectures, Lit Sidebar, May 19, 2011
Summer book fairs
- by Reader staff
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, Summer Guide, book fairs, Little City Book Fair, Printers Row Lit Fest, Newberry Library Book Fair, Printers' Ball, 57th Street Children's Book Fair, Columbia College Chicago, Newberry Library

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Lit & Lectures, Lit Sidebar, May 12, 2011
Visions for Chicago—on yard signs
- by Bert Stabler
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, Visions for Chicago, Vinay Ravi, Frank Edwars, Daniel Tucker, AREA Chicago magazine, Dave Pabellon, Roxy Trudeau, Lauren Cumbia, Hillary Anne Strack, Rahm Emanuel, Jane Addams Hull House, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

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Lit & Lectures, Lit Sidebar, Mar 10, 2011
Annual Story Week Festival of Writers Kicks Off
- by Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, Stpry Week Festival of Writers, Columbia College, Jennifer Egan, Joe Meno, Audrey Niffenegger, Gerard Woodward, Karen Tei Yamashita, Regina Taylor, Tanya Saracho, Johnny Temple, Dan Sinker, @mayoremanuel, Literary Rock & Roll, Irvine Welsh, Gina Frangello, Chicag Classics, Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, Lincoln Hall, Film Row Cinema, Columbia College, Harold Washington Library Center, auditorium, Metro

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Lit & Lectures, Lit Sidebar, Oct 14, 2010
Chicago Humanities Festival

This year's fest, themed "The Body," kicks off Sunday, October 24.
- by Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, Chicago Humanities Festival, University of Chicago, The Body, Thomas Lynch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Paul Kahan, Aleksandar Hemon, Sam Shepard, E.O. Wilson, Rebecca Skloot, Laura Kipnis

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Lit & Lectures, Lit Sidebar, Sep 16, 2010
Fall Arts Guide 2010: Sam Shepard

Best Bet: Lit
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, Sam Shepard, Buried Child, The Slow and Painful Death of Sam Shepard, True West, Jeff Dorchen, Theater Oobleck, Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago Tribune Literary Prize, Symphony Center

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Lit & Lectures, Lit Sidebar, Sep 16, 2010
Fall Arts Guide 2010: Charles Burns & Chris Ware

Best Bet: Lit
- by Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, Chris Ware, Charles Burns, The Best American Comics, Art Spiegelman, Iggy Pop, X'ed Out, Acme Novelty Library

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Lit & Lectures, Lit Sidebar, Sep 16, 2010
Fall Arts Guide 2010: Lit Listings

David Sedaris, Roger Ebert, Joshua Ferris, Joe Meno, and more
- by Jerome Ludwig

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