Excerpt From On The Nine by Tony A. Bowers
December 10, 2015
RIP I heard something pretty interesting once. It was a saying. It went, “The very best of a man is…
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Hypertext Interview With Tony Bowers
December 7, 2015
By Christine Rice Tony Bowers’s short story collection On The Nine vividly depicts the desperation, loves, failures, and triumphs of…
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Ghosts in the Sunlight by Angela Fraleigh
December 4, 2015
Ghosts in the Sunlight – The Complexities of Power or How We Get What We Want With What We’ve Got…
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Sympathetic by Josh Rank
December 3, 2015
I took a drink of water and it felt like pointy little puppy teeth dragging along my throat. I tried…
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Hypertext Interview with Behnam Riahi & Reading Under the Influence
November 30, 2015
By Shelbie Janocha Reading Under the Influence – or RUI for those who have no time to spare – is a…
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Excerpt From Sarah Xerta’s Nothing To Do With Me
November 26, 2015
CRUSH Today I’m not crushing on you. Handfuls of blue skyspill out of my pockets and I let them, leaving…
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Hypertext Interview With Sarah Xerta
November 23, 2015
By Christine Rice Sarah Xerta’s language and images will lull you into lovely, quiet spaces and – just like that…
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The Lit Scene: BOOKS ON THE NIGHTSTAND
November 18, 2015
By Howard Simmons When my final grad class ended and I was left to work through my thesis alone, unmoored…
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Pinhole Photography by Tuba Öztekin Köymen
November 13, 2015
I am an interdisciplinary artist who focuses on thematic approaches to photographic art. My work reflects the challenges of cultural…
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Chicago Lit Scene: 7 Stories
November 12, 2015
BY SHELBIE JANOCHA Originally envisioned by founder DJ Howard as a monthly semi-theater performance with experimental sound effects and quick…
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IMMIGRANT LABORERS by Lupita Murillo Tinnen
November 6, 2015
BY LUPITA MURILLO TINNEN Immigrant Laborers Series The images from this series titled, Immigrant Laborers, help express a more complex…
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Excerpt from Bottom of the Ninth by Wyl Villacres
November 4, 2015
BY WYL VILLACRES “4-6” Some facts about my father: -My dad grew up reading poetry, writing down his favorites by…
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The Hypertext Interview With Wyl Villacres
November 2, 2015
By Paul Massignani Wyl Villacres is a Cubs fan. I’m a White Sox fan. Staying true to the spirit of…
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Halloween, 1977 by Ryan Mattern
November 1, 2015
The ghost was crying. It was the 8-track’s fault. See, Patrick was driving to Sheila O’Connor’s Halloween party–which was going…
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The Home on the Hill by Samuel J. Baxter
October 31, 2015
Alec Jennings wished for many things. He wished that he hadn’t made so many mistakes over the course of his…
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“The Inequivalent” by Krista Steinke
October 30, 2015
BY KRISTA STEINKE I grew up in the Gulf Coast area, and after a long hiatus living elsewhere, I recently…
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Excerpt from Joe Meno’s Marvel and a Wonder
October 29, 2015
By Joe Meno The boy was still asleep at seven. The grandfather went downstairs, buttered some toast, ate, then puttered…
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Hypertext Interview With Joe Meno
October 27, 2015
 By Christine Rice Recently long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal For Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, Joe Meno’s hauntingly lovely,…
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Green Sea by Brennan Burnside
October 20, 2015
to Linda D. Benliza 6:20 a.m. Martha closes her eyes as she threads the cap through her fingers. This is…
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“On Ripeness and Rot” By Kimberly Witham
October 16, 2015
BY KIMBERLY WITHAM These photographs are a very intimate meditation on beauty, fecundity, fragility and the inevitable march of time. The…
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God’s Work
October 14, 2015
BY BEN TANZER “We need a tradition,” Alice says to me, like you can just go and create one whenever…
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Ben Tanzer: The Manny’s Delicatessen Interview
October 12, 2015
By Christine Rice Ben Tanzer, as writers like to say, gets his butt in the chair. He is a novelist,…
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OBSERVATIONS By BettyAnn Mocek
October 9, 2015
By BettyAnn Mocek AN EXHIBITION INSPIRED BY A SABBATICAL IN NEW YORK CITY, OCTOBER 5-NOVEMBER 23, McCORMICK HALL, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY…
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Excerpt from Christine Sneed’s Paris, He Said
October 7, 2015
Chapter 1  Flight  As Jayne made final preparations to leave New York for Paris during the first few days of…
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Hypertext Interview with Christine Sneed
October 5, 2015
By Christine Rice Christine Sneed is a prose stylist. In her short stories and novels she does with words what Patricia…
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Cracked by Charlotte Le Good
October 1, 2015
Silver Sugar Online Matchmaking Service USER CANCELLATION REQUEST [You have submitted your USER CANCELLATION REQUEST to Silver Sugar Online Matchmaking…
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Hypertext Interview With Nina Revoyr
September 21, 2015
By Howard Simmons Lost Canyon, Nina Revoyr’s fifth novel, is an adventure story, a thriller, and a character-based investigation of…
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Excerpt from Peggy Shinner’s You Feel So Mortal: Essays on the Body
September 9, 2015
An Excerpt from “FAMILY FEET” 1 I have, according to a dubious assemblage of pundits, propagandists, and pseudo- scientists, Jewish…
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Hypertext Interview With Peggy Shinner
September 8, 2015
By Christine Rice After reading Peggy Shinner’s You Feel So Mortal: Essays On The Body, my brain felt like it had…
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Hypertext Interview With Jillian Lauren
July 2, 2015
By Christine Rice Jillian Lauren is no stranger to risk.  She dropped out of college, became addicted to drugs, and…
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