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Our chief film critic Steve Prokopy joined David Cronenberg for a post-screening Q&A of The Shrouds at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social
📸: Tumpale Mwakasisi
📸: Tumpale Mwakasisi
Trap Door Theatre stages "Dutchman" by Amiri Baraka, a 1964 play about racism, power and politiics. Dated? A little, but still thrilling after all these years. thirdcoastreview.com/stages/2025/...
Review: Trap Door Takes Us Back to the Sixties with Amiri Baraka’s Electric <em>Dutchman</em> | Third Coast Review
Amiri Baraka was still LeRoi Jones when he wrote Dutchman in 1964. The play, now being staged by Trap Door Theatre, is an early dialogue on race, class and power. […]
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October 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Trap Door Theatre stages "Dutchman" by Amiri Baraka, a 1964 play about racism, power and politiics. Dated? A little, but still thrilling after all these years. thirdcoastreview.com/stages/2025/...
How are Chicago-area bookstores doing in this era of increasing book bans and censorship? We talked to a bunch of them. We think you will find their responses as interesting as we do. thirdcoastreview.com/lit/2025/09/...
Words of Survival: Chicago Bookstores Respond to COVID and Book Bans | Third Coast Review
This is the third in our series of articles on The Art of Survival, in which we explore how small Chicago arts organizations are surviving post-COVID and weathering the anti-humanist and anti-diversit...
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October 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
How are Chicago-area bookstores doing in this era of increasing book bans and censorship? We talked to a bunch of them. We think you will find their responses as interesting as we do. thirdcoastreview.com/lit/2025/09/...
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The Design Museum exhibit—Great Ideas of Humanity—reinvents a great advertising campaign that began in Chicago. thirdcoastreview.com/art/2025/07/...
Review: Design Museum Recreates Classic Great Ideas Series With New Voices and Expanded Focus | Third Coast Review
The Design Museum of Chicago has reached back into design history for a landmark advertising campaign developed by a Chicago corporation; the curators have recreated it as a modern-day exhibit […]
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August 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The Design Museum exhibit—Great Ideas of Humanity—reinvents a great advertising campaign that began in Chicago. thirdcoastreview.com/art/2025/07/...
Our comedy fans covered iO Fest and here's our finale. thirdcoastreview.com/stages/2025/...
Dispatch: iO Fest 2025 Closes With POC Comedy, Off-Kilter Standup and Shakespearean Bloodshed | Third Coast Review
By Third Coast Review Staff iO Theater’s second annual iO Fest closed Sunday after 100-plus comedy acts performed over the four-day event. The fest featured homegrown Chicago talent and nationally […]
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August 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Our comedy fans covered iO Fest and here's our finale. thirdcoastreview.com/stages/2025/...
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I officially have my byline with @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social! Check out this preview piece for iO Fest 2025 ✨ thirdcoastreview.com/stages/2025/...
Preview: Chicago’s iO Fest Returns with Star-Studded Lineup July 24–27 | Third Coast Review
Chicago’s rich improv tradition takes center stage next week as iO Fest 2025 returns July 24-27 to the iO Theater, 1501 N. Kingsbury St., filling four days with comedic performances, […]
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July 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I officially have my byline with @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social! Check out this preview piece for iO Fest 2025 ✨ thirdcoastreview.com/stages/2025/...
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Lit editor business for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social. I interview horror/spec fiction writer @damianserbu.bsky.social about his new book Witch in the Wind, "gay horror," and supporting your favorite writers.
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Interview: Witches, Pirates, and LGBTQIA+: A Talk with Horror/Romance Writer Damian Serbu | Third Coast Review
"The genres allowed me to empower LGBTQIA+ characters in different ways. A gay vampire has power over the world other gay people don’t."
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June 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Lit editor business for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social. I interview horror/spec fiction writer @damianserbu.bsky.social about his new book Witch in the Wind, "gay horror," and supporting your favorite writers.
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Lit Editor Business: June Sawyers shares her experiences at "Bloomsday in Chicago" at the Galway Arms in @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social.
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Let Us Re-Joyce: "Bloomsday in Chicago" Celebrates James Joyce's Masterwork | Third Coast Review
Ulysses. The book Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company published in Paris in 1922. The book that was banned in the US and the UK. The book people either love or […]
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June 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Lit Editor Business: June Sawyers shares her experiences at "Bloomsday in Chicago" at the Galway Arms in @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social.
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Back on the local Iberoamerican film beat for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social with AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE, Albert Serra's hypnotic observational documentary about bullfighting. Opens today in Chicago for a limited four-day engagement at the Gene Siskel Film Center:
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Review: <em>Afternoons of Solitude</em> Takes an Unconventional Approach to a Bloody Tradition | Third Coast Review
“It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal and a piece of scarlet serge draped […]
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July 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Back on the local Iberoamerican film beat for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social with AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE, Albert Serra's hypnotic observational documentary about bullfighting. Opens today in Chicago for a limited four-day engagement at the Gene Siskel Film Center:
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TCR Lit Editor Business: Always glad when Patrick T. Reardon does a review for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social. Especially if it's about old Abe.
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Review: His Mind Constantly on the Go, Lincoln the Citizen, by Henry C. Whitney, edited by Michael Burlingame | Third Coast Review
Nonetheless, if the reader is willing to spend the time, energy, and discernment, the book offers striking insights about Lincoln.
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June 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
TCR Lit Editor Business: Always glad when Patrick T. Reardon does a review for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social. Especially if it's about old Abe.
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Lit Ed Biz: Check out the latest installment of Book Smarts, in which @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social writers cover their favorite Chicago bookstores. This installment was written by guest author Holly Smith about 57th Street Books of @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social.
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Book Smarts: 57th Street Books: Stairs, Lore, and a Third Space | Third Coast Review
“The importance is to be a community resource and a community third space,” Mayer continued, also indicating the store's location—not far from the University of Chicago's main quad...
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June 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Lit Ed Biz: Check out the latest installment of Book Smarts, in which @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social writers cover their favorite Chicago bookstores. This installment was written by guest author Holly Smith about 57th Street Books of @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social.
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I wrote a review of Frank London Brown's "This Is Life," a collection of short, short fiction about Black Chicago written in 1959–1960 for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social. These formerly appeared in the Chicago Defender. Published by @frombeyondpress.bsky.social.
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Review: <em>This Is Life: Rediscovered Short Fiction</em>, by Frank London Brown | Third Coast Review
Here we find Black Chicagoans at work or play, struggling or succeeding, and sadly experiencing familiar problems and obstacles brought in by prejudice, inequality, and discrimination. Most of Brown’s...
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June 8, 2025 at 5:05 AM
I wrote a review of Frank London Brown's "This Is Life," a collection of short, short fiction about Black Chicago written in 1959–1960 for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social. These formerly appeared in the Chicago Defender. Published by @frombeyondpress.bsky.social.
thirdcoastreview.com/lit/2025/06/...
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New review for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social by Caroline Huftalen. @beltpublishing.bsky.social offers a delightful cookbook revealing the many facets of the humble rhubarb. Believe it or not, you can use it for more than pie and crumbles.
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June 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
New review for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social by Caroline Huftalen. @beltpublishing.bsky.social offers a delightful cookbook revealing the many facets of the humble rhubarb. Believe it or not, you can use it for more than pie and crumbles.
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Lovely new review from Patrick T. Reardon for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social. Help little little kids understand where their food comes from:
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Throughout human history, children grew up watching plants grow and become food. They helped plant seeds. They helped tend the field or orchard. They helped harvest the rice or the apples or the potatoes.
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May 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Lovely new review from Patrick T. Reardon for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social. Help little little kids understand where their food comes from:
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Third Coast Review Lit Editor Business: Patrick T. Reardon reviews a book about railway maps, which I know SOME of you will eat up with a soup ladle. @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social
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Review: The How, When, and Why of Rail Lines, <em>A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps</em>, by Jeremy Black | Third Coast Review
It’s a serious book for serious readers, mainly scholars studying the history of the railroad, the history of humanity over the past two centuries and the ways people and the railroad have intersected...
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March 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Third Coast Review Lit Editor Business: Patrick T. Reardon reviews a book about railway maps, which I know SOME of you will eat up with a soup ladle. @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social
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Our chief film critic Steve Prokopy joined David Cronenberg for a post-screening Q&A of The Shrouds at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social
📸: Tumpale Mwakasisi
📸: Tumpale Mwakasisi
May 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Our chief film critic Steve Prokopy joined David Cronenberg for a post-screening Q&A of The Shrouds at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social
📸: Tumpale Mwakasisi
📸: Tumpale Mwakasisi
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New article by me for Third Coast Review (@thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social.) I interview the proprietors of Secret World Books of Highland Park. It's their first anniversary. They're on the Chicagoland Bookstore Crawl for Independent Bookstore Day too.
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Book Smarts—Secret World Books of Highland Park: Third Space for the North Shore | Third Coast Review
Gayle and Michael Brandeis sought to provide the North Shore with just such a space through their Highland Park store, Secret World Books (1774 2nd Street, Highland Park).
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April 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New article by me for Third Coast Review (@thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social.) I interview the proprietors of Secret World Books of Highland Park. It's their first anniversary. They're on the Chicagoland Bookstore Crawl for Independent Bookstore Day too.
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Looking for some literary things to do in the coming weeks? Check out @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com's Chicago Is Lit column for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social!
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Chicago Is Lit: Independent Bookstore Day and More Spring Events | Third Coast Review
After Independent Bookstore Day, the literary celebration continues: add these free author events and readings to your May to-do list.
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April 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Looking for some literary things to do in the coming weeks? Check out @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com's Chicago Is Lit column for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social!
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Always a pleasure when Patrick T. Reardon does a review for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social:
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Review: Sadness at the End of a World, Unstaged Grief: Musicals and Mourning in Midcentury America, by Jake Johnson | Third Coast Review
The title of Jake Johnson’s latest book—Unstaged Grief: Musicals and Mourning in Midcentury America—is more than a bit jarring. It’s that part about “Musicals and Mourning” that seems so odd. […]
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May 8, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Always a pleasure when Patrick T. Reardon does a review for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social:
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It was lovely to hear Mark Anthony Green chat about his movie Opus at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social!
Opus is an eerie Willy Wonkaesque dive into the dark side of fame. John Malkovich is delightfully bizarre, and Ayo Edebiri is exceptional. 🎵🔪 #OpusMovie #horror #filmsky 📽️
Opus is an eerie Willy Wonkaesque dive into the dark side of fame. John Malkovich is delightfully bizarre, and Ayo Edebiri is exceptional. 🎵🔪 #OpusMovie #horror #filmsky 📽️
March 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
It was lovely to hear Mark Anthony Green chat about his movie Opus at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social!
Opus is an eerie Willy Wonkaesque dive into the dark side of fame. John Malkovich is delightfully bizarre, and Ayo Edebiri is exceptional. 🎵🔪 #OpusMovie #horror #filmsky 📽️
Opus is an eerie Willy Wonkaesque dive into the dark side of fame. John Malkovich is delightfully bizarre, and Ayo Edebiri is exceptional. 🎵🔪 #OpusMovie #horror #filmsky 📽️
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THE BRAILLE ENCYCLOPEDIA: BRIEF ESSAYS ON ALTERED SIGHT by Naomi Cohn, the latest hybrid title from @rosemetalpress.bsky.social, is an unforgettable series of poetic "definitions" unlike anything you've ever read. More in my highly recommended review!
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March 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
THE BRAILLE ENCYCLOPEDIA: BRIEF ESSAYS ON ALTERED SIGHT by Naomi Cohn, the latest hybrid title from @rosemetalpress.bsky.social, is an unforgettable series of poetic "definitions" unlike anything you've ever read. More in my highly recommended review!
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#BookRecommendation
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Need weekend plans? We got you covered! Check out Your Curated Weekend for ideas: thirdcoastreview.com/2025/02/27/y...
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 2/27 and Beyond | Third Coast Review
We’re in that miraculous false spring season so let’s take advantage of the warmer temps and brighter days! There’s so much coming up this weekend including all the fun concerts, […]
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February 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Need weekend plans? We got you covered! Check out Your Curated Weekend for ideas: thirdcoastreview.com/2025/02/27/y...
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A new staging of Sam Shepard's great play by Raven Theatre. thirdcoastreview.com/2025/02/25/s...
Review: Raven Theatre Creates a Sizzling Production of the Sam Shepard Masterwork, <em>A Lie of the Mind</em> | Third Coast Review
A Lie of the Mind, Sam Shepard’s 1983 play about two families and the tragedy that binds them, is a sizzling 2.5 hours of solid acting, direction and pacing. At […]
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February 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
A new staging of Sam Shepard's great play by Raven Theatre. thirdcoastreview.com/2025/02/25/s...
The Remains of Louis Sullivan. @mrdankelly.bsky.social reviews Louis Sullivan: An American Architect. Gorgeous images of his remaining structures, accompanied by great histories/descriptions. By Patrick F. Cannon and James Caulfield.
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Review: They All Stand Up, <em>Louis Sullivan: An American Architect</em>, by Patrick F. Cannon and James Caulfield | Third Coast Review
Thankfully, for those who can’t...sweet talk their way into Sullivan’s buildings, Cannon and Caulfield have created this bright and handsome book.
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December 11, 2024 at 5:38 AM
The Remains of Louis Sullivan. @mrdankelly.bsky.social reviews Louis Sullivan: An American Architect. Gorgeous images of his remaining structures, accompanied by great histories/descriptions. By Patrick F. Cannon and James Caulfield.
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Elizabeth Neukirch contributes her monthly "Chicago Is LIT" literary events column to @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social. What's the word(s) here in Chicago? Check it out here.
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Chicago Is Lit: Poetry Brothel & more December events | Third Coast Review
Chicago's literary scene heats up this month with The Poetry Brothel and more indoor readings and events for book lovers.
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December 4, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Elizabeth Neukirch contributes her monthly "Chicago Is LIT" literary events column to @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social. What's the word(s) here in Chicago? Check it out here.
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