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Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!

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Excerpts from The Believer: A Microinterview with Kevin Young
PART I THE BELIEVER: You’ve been in the poetry and publishing worlds for some thirty years now. What changes have you seen in that time? KEVIN YOUN...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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B-Sides: J. L. Carr’s “A Month in the Country” - Public Books
The impact of the novel’s silences and enigmas is amplified by the enigma that is Carr himself.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Flat Earth
Our age difference, the Law Professor told me, was Socratic: seventeen years. An ideal gap for ideological instruction.   He had medium-sized children—concealed at twentieth-century-style boar…
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November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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“The Beer Drinker,” a Poem by Jean Follain, Translated by Andrew Seguin
“The Beer Drinker” It’s the reader of detective novels who also translated the Homeric epics; he watches his glass redden in the great sundown of Europe. There are vapors wandering everywhere which…
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November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Helen Lederer on What It Takes to Be Funny
Any canny publisher knows that witty literature shifts more units, than, let’s say, books about maths, voles, or trees. And with good reason. Humor connects people. Laughter keeps the fear of lonel…
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November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring Andrew Miller, David McWilliams, Olivia Laing, and more
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November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Jen Percy on the Subversive Possibilities of Structure
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I’m fascinated by form and function. I always want to know if there’s any way structure can support the themes, ideas, or …
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November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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What Is Take Back The Classroom?: Book Censorship News, November 14, 2025
With the closure of BookLooks, we've seen the rise of Take Back the Classroom. But what is this website and how do their book "reviews" work?
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November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Episode 79: Sarah Green (Of Dictionaries, Salvage and Destruction, and the Longing to Make Something Good)
Sarah Green, author of The Deletions (University Akron Press, 2025) Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere Purchase: The Deletions (Editor’s Choice, Akron Poetry Prize) Sarah Green is the…
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November 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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1396: Panama by Sarah Green
Today’s poem is Panama by Sarah Green.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Saudade by Robert Rice - Rattle: Poetry
A thousand years ago a song was sung near a campfire at night by a singer who was alone, exiled […]
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November 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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2025 Winners
Congratulations 2025 Lammy Award Winners
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The Lying Angel
And I was defeated, I, without violence,
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November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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The Sonnet in Drag
She’s charismatic, mistress of the brag. / Who turns a look like hers? The highest tuck
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November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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As China cracks down on stories about men in love, female fans mourn the idealized romances
Fans of Danmei same-sex romance stories in China say the government is cracking down harder than ever on the popular genre.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Latesploitation: An examination of recent works by Gilbert Hernandez - The Comics Journal
How do we read Gilbert Hernandez? The question gets harder, not easier, the more Hernandez adds to his body of work, but Greg Hunter takes a stab at answering it anyway.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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AI Is The Ultimate "Forced Meme"
There are few things in this world more insufferable than a rich person trying to force their shitty ideas on everyone else. And in 2025, there are very few things that feel more forced than “Generati...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Connecting the Dots
‘There’s an extensive online discourse on the Baby Boomer generation’s penchant for ellipses. “OK . . .” “Thanks . . .” “See you next week . . .”’
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November 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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William Blake Was a Prescient Critic of Capitalist Alienation
Before socialism even had a name, the poet and painter William Blake saw how the Industrial Revolution’s "dark Satanic mills" harmed humanity. His visionary work condemned the forces of commodificatio...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Terry Dactyl
Suddenly it felt like so much was going on, even though nothing was going on. But actually, something was going on. 1. Sabine said I’m closing the gallery. 2. Is that really what she said first? Ma…
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November 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week
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November 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Am I the Asshole For Accusing My Friend of Plagiarizing a TV Show?
Howdy friends! It’s my genuine pleasure to welcome you back to another installment of everyone’s favorite writing-flavored advice column, Am I The Literary Asshole? I’m your host, Kristen Arnett, a…
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November 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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When Empire Falls: Talking to George Packer About His New Novel, The Emergency
It feels like we are all lurching from emergency to emergency these days, from climate and humanitarian emergencies, to constitutional emergencies and emergency powers used against our civil rights…
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November 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Choosing the Word of the Year is No Easy Feat
Thirty-five years ago, the late English professor Allan Metcalf had an idea. “I was thinking that Time magazine has its Person of the Year,” he told me, “and why can’t we do for words what Time did…
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November 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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