Excerpt: Agustin Maes’ NEWBORN
November 11, 2022
By Agustin Maes She stepped down off the curved bridge the way she had come. The morning sun was higher in…
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One Question: Agustin Maes
November 11, 2022
Hypertext Magazine asked Agustin Maes, author of Newborn, “In discussing the fluidity of your sentences, readers use painful descriptors including…
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Lessons in Healing: An Interview with Hannah Sward
November 7, 2022
By Alex Poppe Strip, Hannah Sward’s unflinching debut memoir, chronicles her journey through trauma, violence, addiction, and eventually grace. This…
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Excerpt: Debra Monroe’s IT TAKES A WORRIED WOMAN
October 21, 2022
By Debra Monroe For ten years I was a single parent, not the first, last, nor only. Because I adopted,…
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Candor, Not Subterfuge: An Interview with Christine Sneed
October 18, 2022
By Rachel Swearingen Several years ago when I was still new to Chicago, Christine Sneed invited me for coffee at…
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One Question: Debra Monroe
October 6, 2022
Hypertext Magazine asked Debra Monroe, author of It Takes a Worried Woman, “Why did you write a book about worry?”…
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Excerpt: Thomas Kendall’s THE AUTODIDACTS
September 23, 2022
By Thomas Kendall He prayed. He beseeched God. His thoughts all prostrate and biblical ‘for I know that I am…
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One Question: Thomas Kendall
September 23, 2022
Hypertext Magazine asked Thomas Kendall, author of The Autodidacts, “Fictions (notebooks, stories, myth-information) proliferate throughout The Autodidacts but there is…
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A Universe Reveals Itself From Within: An Interview with Anthony Bukoski
September 2, 2022
By Rachel Swearingen Anthony Bukoski is a rare writer, gifted with a communal vision and a deep sense of origin…
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The Milky Way Speaks for Itself: An Interview With Moiya McTier
August 26, 2022
By Lorraine Boissoneault More than a decade ago, before getting swept into the maelstrom of high school, I went through…
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One Question: Connor Coyne
August 26, 2022
Hypertext Magazine asked Connor Coyne, author of Urbantasm Book Four: The Spring Storm, “Was it worth it?” By Connor Coyne…
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Excerpt: Connor Coyne’s URBANTASM BOOK FOUR: THE SPRING STORM
August 26, 2022
By Connor Coyne The next morning, Friday, March 29th, 1996, I walked into Eastern High School, and it told me…
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For Ourselves in Between: An Interview with Addie Tsai
August 19, 2022
By Jael Montellano Every queer person has a relationship to monster stories. When we’re told we’re freaks, abnormal oddities of…
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One Question: Jason Fisk
August 18, 2022
Hypertext Magazine asked Jason Fisk, author of The Craigslist Incident, “What inspired you to write this book?” By Jason Fisk…
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Excerpt: Jason Fisk’s THE CRAIGSLIST INCIDENT
August 18, 2022
By Jason Fisk Women Seeking Men: I’m an 18-year-old female and I want to take a hit out on myself.…
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One Question: KB Jensen
August 12, 2022
Hypertext Magazine asked KB Jensen, author of Love and Other Monsters in the Dark, “Considering you’ve written two novels, why…
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Excerpt: KB Jensen’s LOVE AND OTHER MONSTERS IN THE DARK
August 12, 2022
By KB Jensen In a Serial Killer’s Garden The problem with dissolving a body in acid is that it’s bad…
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One Question: Donald G. Evans
August 9, 2022
Hypertext Magazine asked Donald G. Evans, editor of Wherever I’m At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry, “So, what do you…
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Excerpt: Donald G. Evan’s WHEREVER I’M AT: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CHICAGO POETRY
August 9, 2022
Edited By Donald G. Evans People not from here sometimes ask, “What is Chicago like?” Chicago is like nothing. It’s…
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The Last Éclair by Harvey Silverman
August 9, 2022
Weintraub’s is gone. The last business on Water Street that was a tangible link to those days well over sixty…
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Self Portrait as Moon Drowning in Petrichor… by jason b. crawford
August 9, 2022
and who brought you into this, silly moon? craters licked across your judgemental glare. i know you watch me in…
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Myopia by Susan Dickman
August 9, 2022
I remember the winter I stood every morning on the L platform waiting for the express train to arrive, shivering…
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Night in the Church by Carmen Bugan
August 9, 2022
In memory of Tanti Bălaşa The congregation chose to have your wake in church. They placed your coffin on a…
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I Keep Thinking About That Robot by Jason McCall
August 9, 2022
The future is a bomb delivered by the blameless claw that was born in the cradle of civilization so that…
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The Sex Isn’t Working by Sarah Kersey
August 9, 2022
Some person is asleep in the bedroom. Some guy licked my breasts into his own wounds. Someone thought saying they…
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Zinnias by Brad Richard
August 9, 2022
There is never enough time to see everything in the museums we visit most often. I planted ten packets of…
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Red Geraniums by Rick Krizman
August 9, 2022
It’s been a long day. The wine is gone, but there’s about one finger of Glenfiddich in a glass to…
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A Cancer Lexicon by Kathleen Quigley
August 9, 2022
Adriamycin. The red devil. This is your first—or second—chemo drug. Did the nurses administer them alphabetically or in order of…
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Creative Nonfiction by Kiel M. Gregory
August 9, 2022
A VISIT’S END We’re bringing the boys down the first-floor stairs which lead to the lobby in the apartment building…
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Old Guy in the Schropes’ Driveway by Coley Gallagher
August 9, 2022
My friend Mark’s mom had been unwell. Mrs. Schrope doesn’t like people to fuss over her, however, since I was…
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