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Writer in Chicago
Best series of the summer!
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Rebecca Solnit
25 days ago
My annual Mother's Day post. Because some people had great mothers but lost them, some had or have mothers who never mothered them or stopped mothering them for some reason, treated them as adversaries or as worthless, and Mother's Day can be a punitive day for all those for whom this is true.
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Excited to see
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on the cover of the Reader this month!
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29 days ago
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One of the best things I did in 2025 was getting a reader’s card
@newberrylibrary.bsky.social
— looking forward to returning in the new year!
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5 months ago
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Chicago Tudor Revival AF
6 months ago
Same, Peter, same
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May I just say WHEW
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9 months ago
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Nina Metz
10 months ago
Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire Gift 🔗
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Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/01/column-cpb-winds-down/?share=howbaaio2iocemcniopc
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Yana Kunichoff
11 months ago
As the Texas flood clean up continues, I'm thinking about how after the tragedy of a natural disaster, its often immigrant workers that come in to clean up and are left to fend for themselves amid loosely regulated worker safety rules by
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publicintegrity.org/environment/...
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They clean up after natural disasters. Now they’re getting sick.
Brothers Santos and Mariano have been chasing jobs after hurricanes for nearly two decades. And the grueling work of cleaning and rebuilding after natural disasters has taken a toll on their bodies. T...
https://publicintegrity.org/environment/toxic-labor/audio-investigation-they-clean-natural-disasters-sick/
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The Cheers + Marie-Helene Bertino mashup I didn’t know I needed:
brooklynrail.org/2025/04/fict...
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The Ecstasy of Sam Malone | The Brooklyn Rail
This story from Marie-Helene Bertino’s newest collection, Exit Zero, confirms her status as a master of slippery twilight, a true believer that if one sidles up to a threshold just right, she can pass...
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/04/fiction/the-ecstasy-of-sam-malone/
about 1 year ago
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Nina Corcoran
over 1 year ago
Respect to Frog for doing what writers fear doing: confronting your personal cliches instead of pretending you have none
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
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Frog: 1000 Variations on the Same Song
Read Nina Corcoran’s review of the album.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/frog-1000-variations-on-the-same-song/
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Leor Galil
over 1 year ago
I wrote a brief appeal about why you should donate to the Chicago Reader to keep my newsroom afloat. Please donate if you can
donorbox.org/save-the-chi...
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Save the Chicago Reader - Leor Galil's Fundraiser on Donorbox
I published my first Reader story in the summer of 2010. It concerned a Logan Square DIY space called Strangelight, which operated out of a storefront in the Congress Theater. I was 24 at the time. Be...
https://donorbox.org/save-the-chicago-reader/fundraiser/leor-galil
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Bruce’s talent! Museum quality American crafting.
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over 1 year ago
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Perennial fav
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over 1 year ago
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Flood watch from the current storm hitting on the anniversary of last year’s flood is pretty deeply uncool
almost 2 years ago
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Leor Galil
almost 2 years ago
Mazel to
@juliaheney.bsky.social
in the New England Review!!
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Baltimore by Night
In the city of vivid dreams, I take a call from a friend. He’s coming to the potluck, he says, he’ll bring eggs. Wild, I think, because in the dream I just had, he brought eggs to a party, cracked …
https://www.nereview.com/vol-45-no-2-2024/baltimore-by-night/
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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating
over 2 years ago
The capital of Vermont and hasn’t had a post office since July. Now a carrier has retired, leaving residents with no delivery and no place to ask for mail. Elections are in a month, 30% of residents vote by mail but showing a total lack of urgency, a USPS spokesperson says there are no updates.
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Life without a post office leaves Montpelier area residents scrambling - VTDigger
After a mail carrier retired, residents and businesses in Montpelier and Middlesex have been left without mail and no physical post office to pick up their medicine or bills. The delivery problems are...
https://vtdigger.org/2024/01/31/life-without-a-post-office-leaves-montpelier-area-residents-scrambling/
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Can’t stop listening to this album, lovingly blame Nina
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over 2 years ago
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almost 3 years ago
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Climate anxiety index: very high
https://vtdigger.org/2023/07/10/as-montpelier-braces-for-major-flooding-residents-urged-to-evacuate-low-lying-areas/
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As Montpelier braces for major flooding, residents urged to evacuate low-lying areas - VTDigger
Fire Chief Robert Gowans said people in flood-prone areas should “start looking for a place to go” before roads become too flooded for travel.
https://vtdigger.org/2023/07/10/as-montpelier-braces-for-major-flooding-residents-urged-to-evacuate-low-lying-areas/
almost 3 years ago
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This series looks incredible! And it’s free, all ages, in a dreamy park. See you there?
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almost 3 years ago
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