http://literago.org Literate Chicago Fri, 16 May 2008 05:52:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last night I picked up a useful piece of information from my across-the-hall neighbor, a 20-year building resident who's proven to be a boundless source of neighborhood gossip and history.  The landmark Goldblatt building, located at the southwest corner of Chicago & Ashland, is most likely going to house a ... http://literago.org/bulletins/new-library-for-west-town-maybeprobably/ Date: Friday, May 23rd Time: 7:00 pm, $1 Location: The Hideout Participants: Kevin Sampsell, Diana Slickman I was fairly ambivalent about posting a listing for this event, not because I don't love the Dollar Store, but because any advertising could cause it to sell out even quicker now.  From the email: The Dollar Store comes ... http://literago.org/calendar-listings/the-dollar-store-returns/ This just in! Stuart Dybek is giving a talk this Wednesday at noon. Presented by the University of Chicago press and Mayor's Office of Special Events, it's part of the lecture series "Conversations within Communities." During the event, Dybek will read selections from his books, as well as some new ... http://literago.org/calendar-listings/dybek-lunchtime/ This morning, the Tribune reports that while other big-name institutions like Harvard and Yale are storing their books off-campus, the U of C plans to build an underground library capped by a glorious glass dome. I kind of like the article's opener in spite of myself: At the University of Chicago, where ... http://literago.org/bulletins/eat-it-harvard/ Photo of E. Hand courtesy of Locus; M. Sharpe courtesy of Small Spiral Notebook Date: Monday, May 12, 2008 Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: The Book Cellar   Generation Loss and Jamestown were not only two of the most engaging American novels published last year, but also two of the more entertaining literary meditations on violence ... http://literago.org/calendar-listings/elizabeth-hand-and-matthew-sharpe/ Photo courtesy of Alan Del Rio Ortiz   I have finally finished The Lazarus Project, Aleksander Hemon's new novel. All those comparisons to Nabokov? Accurate. No, really.  I've read all his books, and although The Question of Bruno will always be my favorite, this came very close.  Last week, I had the privilege ... http://literago.org/readings-rated/the-lazarus-project/ I'll be there, although now when I think of American Apparel, I think of this video on Jezebel.com   http://literago.org/calendar-listings/venus-party/   Don't ask me why I was looking at James Frey's MySpace page, but I was, and I found out he's flying right over Chicago on the tour for his latest book. I'd like to think he's avoiding us because he knows we're too discerning for him, but I know it's ... http://literago.org/bulletins/frey-to-skip-chicago/ From today's Tribune: When First Lady Laura Bush and daughter Jenna read to Naperville 2nd graders Monday for a national tour promoting their new children's book, it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience..."I see right now in the country there is so much competition for children: television, computers, video games. Children are not ... http://literago.org/bulletins/she-bushes-use-literature-to-indoctrinate-whitebread-youth/ I remember the first time I caught a glimpse of The Facade Project on Western Ave., as I was stopped at a red light underneath the brown line tracks. I hadn't been in Chicago long and didn't know who was responsible or what the building was, but clearly the ... http://literago.org/calendar-listings/poetic-protest/