Literago » More Literary Tours Round Town

Mailing List

Subscribe to the Literago newsletter!

Supporters

Readings, Rated

“Boring” pics
August 14, 2008
Teacher Tales
June 4, 2008
Returning From One Place to Another: A Poet’s Theater Showcase
May 22, 2008
Cheating on Literago
May 19, 2008
Collapsible Poetics Theater
May 18, 2008

Recent Comments

J. Howard Rosier: I didnt read this editorial, but as a working Starbucks barista I would have to agree that its bullshit. But whats more laughable than the notion that Starbucks was once a shrine to coffee as opposed to being merely competent, is the Tribunes editorial page itself, which used to be respectable but rarely posts anything
lee: Something else to chew on would be Ursula LeGuin's essay "Staying Awake" in the February 2008 Harpers (unfortunately, it's locked away for online subscribers only). In it, she touches on this supposed decline of reading, arguing that readers have always been in the minority and that in the course of human history reading for pleasure
Mairead Case: Something else to chew on: book trailers. Video killed the radio star.
kelly: next: starbucks will take over barnes & noble to become a mega-megaconglomerate bookstore-coffeeshop-culturepeddler. reading tribune comments makes me crazed, but i do it anyway. i'm wondering how long before they yank them completely.
Gretchen: This project is heinous, just like that annoyingly pompous, grammar-correcting friend (heh, that friend was me for about 6 months during undergrad, till I wised up). If I was one of the people they deigned to correct, I'd probably use the word "audacity" and then step on their toes. Also, though I've never said this

More Literary Tours Round Town

Bulletins by Gretchen on Thursday 17 May 2007 at 10:47 am

I recently posted about the Devil in the White City tour offered by the Chicago Architectural Foundation, but last night a librarian pal clued me into additional tours offered by the Chicago History Museum, all based on Chicago literature (Nelson Algren, Audrey Niffenegger, etc). Maybe a good thing to do with visiting parental units? (Thanks, Maria).

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Literago is powered by Wordpress - Site Design & Layout by Christopher Hudgens - Logo by Smart & Lovely

Search

Local Resources

All Lit Chicago Calendar

RSS Feeds