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  • Deep Dish reading Jan. 3

    Volumes Bookcafé is closing its doors. The bookstore in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood, owned by two sisters, lost too much business when a Barnes &…

  • Christmas decorations, as demanded

    I shouldn’t have been surprised that my living room plants had organized. There’s a lot of community-building going on these days, especially here in Chicago.…

  • Pumpkin: fun facts

    Pumpkins are squashes, but are squashes pumpkins? Some are. Regarding your holiday pumpkin pie, if the pumpkin comes from a can, it’s at least 95%…

  • ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction

    Anthologies tend to make less money than novels, yet they keep appearing. And I keep reading them. An anthology offers the chance to read a…