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Dogeye Cut tally: five. I push the tip of the pocket knife into the trampoline of my skin and pull it down, sharp and short. A thin stream of blood trickles down my arm, dying its hairs red. It bulges into a drop. The drop lets go, falls, plink! Caught by a bowl of water, its fragile structure split…

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Nantucket Smothered in January, all of the boats are leaving; by and large, they have better places to be. The whalers and fishermen are deserting the harbor, leaving their rods and harpoons up on the wharf as they voyage through the cold saltwater smog. The boathouses are empty, reeking with…

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By Kait Harland Book lovers in the Chicago area will want to mark their calendars for 12:45 p.m. on May 19 for a powerful panel titled “Worlds and Words of Chicago: Immigrant Stories.” Presented by the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame (CLHOF) as a part of the second ever American Writers…

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by Carlos Cumpián Edmund Donald Two-Rivers Broeffle was born on June 29, 1945 to Nancy Johnson Broeffle. They lived with relatives on the 55,000-square-mile Anishinaabemowin-speaking Ojibway treaty lands of the Canadian Seine River Reserve in Sapawe, Ontario. He and his siblings grew up guided…

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by Christine Holbo For a bright moment, a decade or so around the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Chicago was the capital city of modernity, a place to which observers from around the world looked for a glimpse of the future. This had something to do with Chicago’s position at the…

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by Donald G. Evans In the course of researching and writing Chicago and the Making of American Modernism: Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald in Conflict, Michelle Moore closely read important Midwestern authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald. She conducted a disciplined, granular…

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By Donald G. Evans Even before you enter Colvin House, the beauty stops you. At least that was the way it was for me. Elegant doesn’t quite do it justice, although it is that. Interesting, for sure. Stately. A certain Chicago character reflects off the yellow bricks and symmetrical…

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by Donald G. Evans Photo by AJ Kane.  When I arrived at Rita Dragonette’s North Lake Shore Drive condominium last February, I found her anxious. The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s first in-person cocktail fundraiser started in an hour, and in total about 40 people were expected.…

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