One Question: Umar Turaki
May 13, 2022
Hypertext Magazine asked Umar Turaki, author of Such a Beautiful Thing to Behold, “Language seems to be an important element…
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Cephalopod Channeling: An Interview With Shelby Van Pelt
May 12, 2022
By Jael Montellano My former partner and I used to share a joke that, internally, I was a sixty-seven year…
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One Question: Vincent Francone
April 22, 2022
Hypertext Magazine asked Vincent Francone, editor of Open Heart Chicago: An Anthology of Chicago Writing, “When editing the anthology Open Heart…
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Excerpt: Deborah S. Greenhut’s THE HOARDER’S WIFE
April 22, 2022
By Deborah S. Greenhut September 4, 1998, Dr. Friedman’s office “And your relationship with Luddy—how’s that going?” Dr. Friedman and…
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One Question: Deborah S. Greenhut
April 22, 2022
Hypertext Magazine asked Deborah S. Greenhut, author of The Hoarder’s Wife, “Why did you write about the hoarder’s wife instead…
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My Word Would Have Been Conviction: An Interview with Ana Castillo
March 28, 2022
By Christine Maul Rice • ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN CHICAGO LITERARY HALL OF FAME FULLER AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT PRINTED PROGRAM…
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One Question: Erica Plouffe Lazure
March 23, 2022
Hypertext Magazine asked Erica Plouffe Lazure, author of Proof of Me & Other Stories, “Your debut collection tells a series…
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Excerpt: Erica Plouffe Lazure’s PROOF OF ME AND OTHER STORIES
March 23, 2022
From “Selvage” (originally published in the Greensboro Review, Spring 2010) By Erica Plouffe Lazure The back windshield of the ancient…
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Legendair XL2 by Ellen Dillon
March 14, 2022
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Little Face by Haolun Xu
March 10, 2022
(from Dostoevsky’s Rogózhin to Prince Myshkin) The springmakes me so nervous to be lonely. We, who are so settled into…
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The Good News by Summer J. Hart
March 7, 2022
The summers the boy was five & six& a masterful yard sale negotiator, he amassed a collection of porcelain dollsthat…
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To Believe in Humanity: An Interview With Michael Landweber
March 4, 2022
By Jael Montellano If your life has been touched by violence, you know it is insidious like a weed—it winds…
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Poetry by Amish Trivedi
March 3, 2022
Landscape There is no unburdening, no resurrectionin the objects light bends around. Across the openground, I’m running and dying in…
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Buzzwords and Banned Books by Khalisa Rae
February 28, 2022
I learned them on the page first. Fellapart and assembled notions of suicide, held brilliant pain, Beloved, in the handsof…
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Excerpt: RESPECT THE MIC: CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF POETRY FROM A CHICAGOLAND HIGH SCHOOL
February 25, 2022
Edited by Peter Kahn, Hanif Abdurraqib, Franny Choi, and Dan Sullivan Diluted By Savastiana Valle A few weeks ago I…
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One Question: Peter Kahn
February 25, 2022
Hypertext Magazine asked Peter Kahn, editor of Respect the Mic: Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School,…
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The Stranger by J.H. Palmer
February 24, 2022
One afternoon in Chicago during the summer of 2017, I saw a bumper sticker in the shape of a paw…
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Tracks by Alexis Berry
February 21, 2022
I was halfway down the stairs of the UIC-Halsted station when I heard it—the voice of Lee Crooks blaring across…
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The Mechanics of Dying by Anointing Obuh
February 17, 2022
The clot plops into the toilet. This one is larger than a tennis ball, I can feel it. I wrap…
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American Spirits by Nathan Cover
February 14, 2022
content warning: description of suicide It is night, Adi is smoking, like always. Bill in the back seat, me in…
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My Litmus Test by Tara Mandarano
February 10, 2022
I. You land in my inbox like a virus, casually asking if I’ve caught the latest episode of Lost. After…
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Creative Nonfiction by Mandira Pattnaik
February 7, 2022
DOMESTIC GODDESS AT THE ALTAR Eight years on, I’ll be an astrophysicist, the Wandering One, hopping from planet to planet,…
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Frying Potatoes by Paula Boyland
February 3, 2022
Your dad tells you, again, you’re not old enough to use a knife. When you ask him how old you…
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Between Moon and Spider Crab by Sam Ferrante
January 31, 2022
I have slaughtered an irredeemable number of jellyfishes. I didn’t believe Heather Dunn the first time she told me we…
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Buttons by Anne-Marie Oomen
January 27, 2022
Our house is rivered with need, with talk that pools under the talk that talks. It is about money; not…
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Strands by Joshua Jones Lofflin
January 24, 2022
I leave the car window cracked. Hair’s asleep in back. My daughter named him. I thought it short for Harold…
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Underground Topography by Alison McBain
January 20, 2022
An unintelligible announcement crackled over the loudspeakers. Angélica glanced at the digital screens hanging from the paint-chipped ceilings. Accident at…
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Talking About the Fall Color by Mary Hawley
January 17, 2022
Keller’s Konvenience was near the end of town, where Main Street sloped toward Lake Superior and stopped at the shipyard.…
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All That’s Left by Claire Petrichor
January 13, 2022
“Boss, you awake?” It’s Baker who bothered me, eyes sincere and arms spread wide as those tight uniform sleeves allowed.…
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They All Catch Up in the End by Patrick Kruth
January 10, 2022
content warning: car wreck trauma, death It was a bad act. As usual, the night had got away from him.…
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