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- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Jul 26, 2017
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Megan Stielstra interviewing Samantha Irby: The right way to meet in real life
Two rising literary stars talk shop on the occasion of their new books.
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Aug 25, 2016
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Curbside Splendor’s first storefront comes to Revival Food Hall
The independent press’s book and record store hopes to join in the downtown food court’s spirit of community.
- Music, Music Feature Apr 20, 2016
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An oral history of the Empty Bottle
Staff members and musicians share stories of the venerable nightclub in this excerpt from The Empty Bottle Chicago: 21+ Years of Music / Friendly / Dancing.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 10, 2015
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The essays in Tony Fitzpatrick's Dime Stories are enlightening, funny as hell
In this collection of Newcity columns, the artist-poet-writer renders strong opinions in lovely, frank prose.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 3, 2015
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Catching up with writer/professor/Wrigley Field vendor Michael Czyzniejewski
The modern-day Renaissance man talks about his new book of short fiction, I Will Love You for the Rest of My Life: Breakup Stories.
- Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Oct 14, 2014
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Lit and rock merge at Curbside Splendor's Words + Music
The indie imprint celebrates the release of new books—and its first cassingle—at the Empty Bottle.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Sep 17, 2014
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Gossip Wolf: Who's in Elia Einhorn's Fashion Brigade?
Plus: New music from Bloodiest spin-off Quarter Mile Thunder and Fake Limbs side project Burn Permits
- Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 25, 2014
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Best New Book by a Former Chicago Golden Gloves Champ
The Old Neighborhood by Bill Hillmann
- Arts & Culture, Book Review Apr 28, 2014
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Megan Stielstra taps into the anxieties of early adulthood in Once I Was Cool
The Columbia College writing teacher is an unadulterated optimist in her new collection of personal essays.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2014
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In Bill Hillmann's novel The Old Neighborhood, Edgewater is rife with violence and revenge
Bill Hillmann's novel tells the story of a young man's struggle to survive amid a world of gangs and racism.
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Apr 15, 2014
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Chicago authors
share their secretsJeffrey Renard Allen, Tim Kinsella, and other writers with spring books coming out discuss combating writer's block and more.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 10, 2014
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Reader's Agenda Thu 4/10: Words + Music, Everything Is Terrible!, and Juana Molina
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, April 10
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 5, 2013
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Live forever in the upcoming Empty Bottle book
Curbside Splendor is soliciting stories for the up coming book, The Empty Bottle Chicago. An Oral History. 20-Something Years of Piss, Shit, and Broken Urinals.
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Sep 23, 2013
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Bitches gotta write
As the author of the hyperpopular blog Bitches Gotta Eat, Samantha Irby uses humor—harshly, grossly, exquisitely—to get at serious issues: race, gender, loneliness. Her next volley? A new book.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 14, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Sun 4/14: Pop-Up Book Fair, Bitchin' Purge II, and the Chicago Television Project
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, April 14, 2013
- Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures Nov 13, 2012
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This week's Culture Vultures recommend:
Exhibits at Packer Schopf, MAKE magazine, and Carmie's Crown barbershop
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 20, 2012
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Roger Ebert critiques his second date with Oprah Winfrey
Michael Czyzniejewski's Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions: funny, quirky, short ruminations told in the personas of famous Chicagoans
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Apr 5, 2012
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In their words: Victor David Giron, publisher, editor in chief, publicist, and accountant, Curbside Splendor
"Like all small presses, we lack any sort of significant marketing or distribution network. But we work like hell, and our goal is to make a beautiful-looking book."
