Five long months into the pandemic, Aiden Branss found himself wide awake in the middle of the night, meditating on the world’s battered state and sucking down coffee. The 16-year-old grabbed his laptop, and began to write. And after Branss’ midnight oil burned away, he was left with the beginning of his first novel. What began […]
An updated and expanded version of the Tribune’s “Holiday Cookies” book is now available.
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Artifacts saved from the former offices of Johnson Publishing Co. on Michigan Avenue are on display through March at the Stony Island Arts Bank on Chicago’s South Side.
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Printers Row Lit Fest over the weekend was so alive with activities and punctuated our vitality as a literary center.
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