Playground, North Malden Street
A creepy playground stalker inspires a deeper kind of thinking.
Hand-pulled espresso and plenty of inspiration at Café Descartes
At Descartes Coffee in downtown Chicago, the oatmeal lattes are deep.
Getting out of the kitchen
A short story illuminates some comings and goings in a dormitory.
The personality test: a self-reassessment
One writer’s experience with a personality test.
“The places in your house you never visit”
“The crawl space under the kitchen was a better adventure: no ghoul, plenty of junk to look at.”
Of love and keys
The key has the luxury of knowing its destiny - the mate with whom the key will share its life, from the moment it is cut.
Ride along with the Chicago El
Turns out, the El has thoughts and feelings just like the rest of us.
Writer Peggy Orenstein: ‘Ordinary life is worth writing about.’
Author Peggy Orenstein talked yesterday about writing about women’s issues to find larger truths.
Author talks ‘writing the holocaust for the next generation’
Author talks about finding narratives in tragedy.
Filmmaker and writer square off on the best ways to tell a story
Writer Alex Kotlowitz and filmmaker Steve James squared off on the best way to tell a story.