Switch to the
mobile version
of this page.
Newsletters
Follow us
Twitter
Facebook
RSS
Mobile
Username
View Profile
Edit Profile
Log Out
Log in
Create Account
The Chicago Reader
News & Politics
The Bleader
Music
Arts & Culture
Film
Food & Drink
Classifieds
Rentals
Browse News & Politics
News & Politics home page
Michael Miner | Media
Ben Joravsky | Politics
Deanna Isaacs | Culture
Steve Bogira | Narrative
Mick Dumke | Investigative
Browse Music
Music home page
Gossip Wolf
Leor Galil | Music Criticism
Miles Raymer | Music Criticism
Peter Margasak | Music Criticism
The Reader's Jukebox
Soundboard: Concerts this week
Early Warnings: Concerts on horizon
Browse Film
Film home page
J.R. Jones | Movie Reviews
Ben Sachs | Movie Reviews
Index of Long Reviews
Film archive: Short reviews
Now Playing
Today's Showtimes
Browse Arts & Culture
Arts & Culture home page
Theater, Comedy & Dance home page
Tony Adler | Theater Reviews
Visual Arts home page
Lit & Books home page
Arts & Culture event search
Browse Food & Drink
Food & Drink home page
Mike Sula | Restaurant Reviews
Key Ingredient: A chef-to-chef challenge
Cocktail Challenge
Bar Guide
Restaurant search
Browse The Bleader
The Bleader blog home page
Browse Classifieds
Classifieds home page
Jobs
Services
Music
The Arts
Post An Ad
Best of Chicago: vote now!
Straight Dope
Savage Love
You Are Here
Agenda
Fun & Free
Archives
Matches
Coupons & Deals
You searched for:
[X]
literature
Start over
Search for…
Narrow Search
Category
Best of Chicago
News & Features
Blogs
Music
Movies
Food & Drink
Arts & Culture
Performing Arts
Lit & Lectures
Galleries & Museums
You Are Here
Style
Other Stuff
Reader
[X]
Close Window
All Categories
Best of Chicago
Arts & Culture
Arts & Entertainment
City Life
Civics
Food & Drink
Goods & Services
Introduction
Music & Nightlife
Sports & Recreation
News & Features
At the Track
Ben Joravsky on Politics
Caught in the Net
Cheap Suits
Chicago Antisocial
Chicago Baseball 2003 Consumer Confidence Index
Chicago Reader at Forty
City File
City Side
Deanna Isaacs on Culture
Environment
Essay
Feature
Field & Street
Letters
Media
Michael Miner on Media
Miscellany
Mudville
Neighborhood News
News of the Weird
Obituary
Our Town
Police Scanner & Petty Crime
Politics
Savage Love
Sidebar
Snips
Sports Section
Straight Dope
Summer Guide
The Arts
The Reader's Guide Feature
Year In Review
Blogs
Bleader
Music
Artist on Artist
Critic's Choice
Gossip Wolf
In Rotation
Music Column
Music Feature
Music Review
Music Sidebar
Night Spies
Nightlife
Photo Pit
Pitchfork
Post No Bills
Soundboard
Spot Check
Summer Guide
The Secret History of Chicago Music
Three Beats
Movies
Movie Critic's Choice
Movie Feature
Movie Review
Movie Sidebar
Food & Drink
Cocktail Challenge
Food & Drink Column
Food & Drink Feature
Food & Drink News
Key Ingredient
Morsels
Restaurant Reviews
Scraps
Summer Guide
Transformations
Arts & Culture
Architecture
Calendar
Chicago Reader's Guide to New Year's Eve
Chicago Reader's Guide to Valentine's Day
Culture Club
Culture Vultures Slideshow
Dance Critic's Choice
Festival
Small Screen
Special Event
Summer Guide
Theater Critic's Choice
Travel
Visitors' Guide
Performing Arts
Comedy Critic's Choice
Culture Vultures
Performing Arts Feature
Performing Arts Review
Performing Arts Sidebar
Theater Review
Video
Lit & Lectures
Book Review
Fiction
Lit Critic's Choice
Lit Feature
Lit Sidebar
Video
Zine-o-File
Galleries & Museums
Art Critic's Choice
Art Feature
Art Review
Art Sidebar
Video
You Are Here
Chicagoans
Incident Report
Show us your [____]
Space
What the hell is this place?
Zoom in
Style
Boutique of the Week
Fashion
Holiday Gift Guide
Local Wares
Shopping
Video
What Are You Wearing?
Other Stuff
Inkwell
Reader
Announcements
Matches blog
...more »
Author
Select an author
Adam Doster
Molly Adams
Andrea Gronvall
Anne Ford
Andrea Bauer
Bill Stamets
Bianca Sarah Bova
Brian Costello
Tosten Burks
Robyn Chang
Silvia Chavez
Luca Cimarusti
Plastic Crimewave
Jena Cutie
Jacob Daneman
Lloyd DeGrane
Zach Dodson
Elyse Doll
Mick Dumke
John Dunlevy
Elly Fishman
Leor Galil
Bridget Gamble
Isa Giallorenzo
Hannah Gold
Michael Grabell/ProPublica
Justin Hayford
Heartbroker
Andrew Hicks
James Hughes
Drew Hunt
Claudine Isé
Deanna Isaacs
J.R. Jones
Jack Helbig
Dan Jakes
Jeff Huebner
Jerome Ludwig
Ben Joravsky
Kate Schmidt
Katie Kather
Keith Griffith
Heather Kenny
Kevin Warwick
Asher Klein
Janey Lee
Aimee Levitt
Hannah Lorenz
Alison Marcotte
Peter Margasak
Bill Mayeroff
Ruth McCormack
Bill Meyer
Michael Miner
Laura Molzahn
Monica Kendrick
Sarah Nardi
Sarah Nardi
J.R. Nelson
Nicole NeSmith
Noah Berlatsky
Nyki Salinas-Duda
Marissa Oberlander
Eleni O'Connor
Becca Oken
Philip Montoro
Meg Pier
Anjali Pinto
Janet Potter
Rose Doyle (aka Puddin)
Annette Radziszewski
Miles Raymer
Rayyan Al-Shawaf
Reader staff
Christina Elizabeth Rodriguez
Tal Rosenberg
Ben Sachs
Dan Savage
Mara Shalhoup
ShowYouSuck
Shannon Shreibak
J.D. Sommer
Niel Spidle
Steve Bogira
Gwynedd Stuart
Mike Sula
Miranda Swanson
Ben Tausig
Julia Thiel
Tony Adler
Vera Videnovich
Brandon Weigel
Sam Weller
Albert Williams
Sam Worley
Zac Thompson
B. David Zarley
Year
Select a year
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988
1987
1986
1985
1984
1983
1982
1981
1980
1979
1978
1977
1976
1975
1974
1973
1972
1971
Show only
Recommended
Recommended
Member Picks
Member Picks
Slideshow
Slideshow
Image
Image
Video
Video
Audio
Audio
Critics' Picks
Critics' Picks
Readers' Poll
Readers' Poll
Other Searches
Events
Location Guide
Member Search
Movie Showtimes
Movie Reviews
Article Archives
Issue Archives
Comments
Videos
Images
Sorting by Date
Number of Comments
Most Shared
Top Viewed
Alphabetical by Headline
Showing:
all
re: literature
Tools
Add to favorites
Saving…
Add to Custom List
Loading…
Add a Comment (0)
Performing Arts
,
Performing Arts Feature
, May 7, 2013
The art of disability on display at Bodies of Work
The festival puts people with disabilities on the stage, on the screen, behind the mike, and—just as importantly—in the audience.
by Aimee Levitt
Tags:
Performing Arts Feature
,
Bodies of Work Festival
,
Carrie Sandahl
,
disability
,
UIC
,
UIC Department of Disabilitiy and Human Development
,
University of Illinois-Chicago
,
stereotypes
,
outside art
,
theater
,
literature
,
poetry
,
novels
,
visual art
,
dance
,
Ginger Lane
,
Lisa Bufano
,
Momenta
,
Stephen Dwoskin
,
film
,
Yolanda Cursach
,
MCA
,
Museum of Contemporary Art
,
Ballet Black
,
Mayor's Office for People With Disabilities
,
accessibility
,
Americans With Disabilities Act
,
ADA
Tools
Add to favorites
Saving…
Add to Custom List
Loading…
Add a Comment (0)
Performing Arts
,
Culture Vultures
, Feb 14, 2013
This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:
How Should a Person Be?
, Blood Oath Improv, and
Monsters and Dust
by Janey Lee and Hannah Lorenz
Tags:
Culture Vultures
,
MAKE
,
Blood Oath Improv Group
,
Featherproof Books
,
Zach Dodson
,
Monsters & Dust
,
Aay Preston
,
Aay Preston-Myint
,
Joe Proulx
,
M&D
,
Chris Pappas
,
Jordan Williams
,
Nitewerk
,
Alex Valentine
,
Brian Case
,
Joshua Hauth
,
Scott Cowen
,
Laura Pearson
,
Torian Miller
,
Trevor Kravits
,
Ryan Hake
,
Ricky Staffieri
,
Adam Ston
,
Jared Popkin
,
books
,
literature
,
design
,
Blood Oath Improv
,
improv
,
Pop stache
,
Will Neved
,
Gift Theatre Company
,
How Should a Person Be?
,
Sheila Heti
,
Carl Wilson
,
essays
,
Celine Dion
Tools
Add to favorites
Saving…
Add to Custom List
Loading…
Add a Comment (0)
Blogs
,
Bleader
, Apr 12, 2012
" . . . and Joyce had a secretary named Keith"
The deceptively clever "James Joyce or Kool Keith?" Web quiz
by Miles Raymer
Tags:
Books
,
Music
,
James Joyce
,
Kool Keith
,
quiz
,
rap music
,
literature
,
Hudson Hongo
,
the Internet
Tools
Add to favorites
Saving…
Add to Custom List
Loading…
Add a Comment (0)
Blogs
,
Bleader
, Jan 25, 2012
Coal play
Hiroshi Teshigahara's Japanese ghost story
Pitfall
screens tonight at Chicago Cultural Center.
by J.R. Jones
Tags:
Lit & Lectures
,
Film
,
Performing Arts
,
Arts
,
Books
,
Hiroshi Teshigahara
,
Pitfall movie
,
J.R. Jones
,
Chicago Cultural Center
,
Toru Takemitsu
,
Kobo Abe
,
Century Club
,
The Woman in the Dunes
,
The Face of Another
,
The Man Without a Map
,
Peter Grilli
,
Criterion Collection
,
French New Wave
,
Luis Bunuel
,
Los Olvidados
,
Knox College
,
Michael A. Schneider
,
Mat Ryohei Matsuda
,
Orna Shaughnessy
,
Robin Metz
,
Elizabeth Carlin-Metz
,
Vitalist Theatre of Chicago
,
The Ghost Is Here
,
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
,
theater
,
literature
,
movies
Tools
Add to favorites
Saving…
Add to Custom List
Loading…
Add a Comment (0)
Blogs
,
Bleader
, Jan 11, 2010
The Soft Boner of Classic American Literature
Katie Roiphe thinks that impotence and feminism have contributed to the decline of the Great Male Novelists. Really, it's porn and diversity.
by Amanda Hess
Tags:
The Sexist
,
Katie Roiphe
,
New York Times
,
feminism
,
literature
,
sex writing
Tools
Add to favorites
Saving…
Add to Custom List
Loading…
Add a Comment (1)
Blogs
,
Bleader
, Jul 21, 2009
OK, more moon blogging
by Whet Moser
Tags:
Chicagoland
,
Lit & Lectures
,
Books
,
W.H. Auden
,
Moon Landing
,
Musee des Beaux Arts
,
Alan Shepard
,
Apollo 11
,
poetry
,
literature
Tools
Add to favorites
Saving…
Add to Custom List
Loading…
Add a Comment (3)
Blogs
,
Bleader
, Jul 14, 2009
"Bertram Cope's Year": Chicago's forgotten gay masterpiece
by Whet Moser
Tags:
Chicagoland
,
LGBT
,
Lit & Lectures
,
Books
,
Henry Blake Fuller
,
Bertram Cope's Year
,
literature
,
Chicago literature
,
Bertram Cope
,
The Cliff-Dwellers
,
Frank Norris
,
Theodore Dreiser
,
literary realism
,
American literature
,
Northwestern University
,
gay literature
,
the Awakening
,
Edmund Wilson
Tools
Add to favorites
Saving…
Add to Custom List
Loading…
Add a Comment (1)
News & Features
,
Media
, Jul 9, 2009
A Short Story in the Palm of Your Hand
Punk Planet’s Dan Sinker believes you really do want to read on your phone.
by Michael Miner
Tags:
Media
,
Lit & Lectures
,
Media
,
Books
,
Dan Sinker
,
CellStories
,
media
,
technology
,
literature
,
Punk Planet
,
Chicago Reader
,
Akashic Books
,
Kindle
,
Columbia College
Tools
Add to favorites
Saving…
Add to Custom List
Loading…
Add a Comment (0)
Blogs
,
Bleader
, Jun 8, 2009
Put it on your radar II/Why Twitter rules
Granta's looking for submissions about Chicago, if you're willing to pony up for international mail.
by Whet Moser
Tags:
News
,
Chicagoland
,
Literature
,
Granta
Tools
Add to favorites
Saving…
Add to Custom List
Loading…
Add a Comment (0)
Blogs
,
Bleader
, Oct 29, 2008
I wish you way more than luck
David Lipsky on the life and death of DFW.
by Whet Moser
Tags:
News
,
Chicagoland
,
Literature
,
David Foster Wallace
Tools
Add to favorites
Saving…
Add to Custom List
Loading…
Add a Comment (11)
Blogs
,
Bleader
, Sep 15, 2008
On David Foster Wallace
RIP, DFW
by Whet Moser
Tags:
News
,
Chicagoland
,
Literature
,
David Foster Wallace
,
Infinite Jest
,
Good People
Tools
Add to favorites
Saving…
Add to Custom List
Loading…
Add a Comment (0)
Blogs
,
Bleader
, Feb 1, 2008
"The thriller concept is why humans invented storytelling"
The 10th annual "Love Is Murder" conference, this weekend in the burbs.
by Whet Moser
Tags:
News
,
Chicagoland
,
Literature
,
Lee Child
,
Love is Murder
Tools
Add to favorites
Saving…
Add to Custom List
Loading…
Add a Comment (2)
Blogs
,
Bleader
, Jan 18, 2007
Field and Street
Nature writers would do us all a favor by staying in town.
by Harold Henderson
Tags:
Environmentalism
,
William Cronon
,
Literature
,
Jenny Price
,
Nature writing
,
Jerry Sullivan
Tools
Add to favorites
Saving…
Add to Custom List
Loading…
Add a Comment (9)
Blogs
,
Bleader
, Jan 4, 2007
Science fiction and literature, the grudge match
Is any sci-fi good?
by Harold Henderson
Tags:
Science fiction
,
Literature
,
Kurt Vonnegut
,
David Marusek
$59 for a dental exam, cleaning and x-rays at Advanced Dental Care - $292 value
Terms of Use
Privacy Policy
Submission Guidelines
About The
Reader
Staff
Freelancing Info
Advertising
Back Issues
Contact Us
Copyright © 2013 Sun-Times Media, LLC.
Powered by
Foundation