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"Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle of Truth" by Elizabeth Williamson. (Dutton via AP)

Chicago native’s book explores Sandy Hook, Alex Jones, and why modern conspiracy theories have been so contagious

May 13, 2022 at 5:15 a.m.

In late April, one week before a trial began that would decide how much Alex Jones should pay the families of first-graders murdered in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook...

Mike Birbiglia works on stage blocking in preparation for a month of performances at the Steppenwolf Theater, Wednesday, April 27, 2022. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

For comedian Mike Birbiglia’s one-man show at Steppenwolf, there’s a lot of planning and honing: ‘OK, Mike, now yell’

May 12, 2022 at 5:45 a.m.

The first thing that appears to happen when Mike Birbiglia begins his new one-man show at the Steppenwolf Theatre is that he walks out on stage. Of course. He says...

Students show completed items to a judge at the 35th annual University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt on May 8, 2022.

Stupefyingly difficult U. of C. Scavenger Hunt marks 35 years with Olympic condoms, aerial pancake flipping and Rube Goldberg machines

May 13, 2022 at 9:59 a.m.

The 35th annual University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt — which is nominally a scavenger hunt but closer to a campus tradition wrapped inside a multigenerational class reunion bundled into an...

"Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman, here at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago on March 2, 2011, was Mayor Richard M. Daley's final One Book, One Chicago selection.

Neil Gaiman will draw a crowd when he speaks in Chicago — and here’s why

May 10, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Neil Gaiman is coming to speak in Chicago Friday, and if that means nothing to you, you might be surprised then to hear that this rather lanky, droll, pale, middle-aged...

Author and American Writers Festival presenter John Scalzi writes science fiction because of a coin toss

May 8, 2022 at 2:42 p.m.

John Scalzi, appearing at the American Writers Festival on May 15 (in conversation with the terrific Chicago science-fiction writer Michi Trota), once brought 13 ideas to a major publisher, hoping...

Author and American Writers Festival presenter Ashley C. Ford wants to own her own story — even if that story includes her incarcerated father

May 8, 2022 at 2:56 p.m.

Ashley C. Ford, appearing at the American Writers Festival on May 15 (in conversation with Chicago poet and scholar Eve L. Ewing), is pure voice, bright, fun to read, chatty....

Author and American Writers Festival presenter Natalie Moore has a new play on abortion rights, debuting in Chicago

May 8, 2022 at 2:16 p.m.

Natalie Moore is appearing at the American Writers Festival on May 15 in conversation with Lookingglass Theatre ensemble member and director J. Nicole Brooks. Moore is known around Chicago as...

Visitors check out a Chicago writers display at the American Writers Museum on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. The museum and the Chicago Cultural Center are hosting the American Writers Festival May 15.

There’s a new lit fest in town: American Writers Festival will host authors from Joy Harjo to John Scalzi, all events free

May 8, 2022 at 2:10 p.m.

As downtown Chicago creaks slowly, slooooooowly, back to where it was before the pandemic, the American Writers Museum on Michigan Avenue has grown antsy. Its fifth-year anniversary was approaching, though...

Maxine Hong Kingston, here in 2014, is the author of several novels. She's appearing virtually at the American Writers Festival.

Author and American Writers Festival presenter Maxine Hong Kingston writes about real people

May 8, 2022 at 2:32 p.m.

Maxine Hong Kingston, appearing virtually at the American Writers Festival in Chicago on May 15 (in conversation with celebrated fiction writer Viet Thanh Nguyen), never has done many interviews. But...

A page from "Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary," published in 1972 by Last Gasp.

Justin Green, a pioneer whose Highland Park childhood led to a new confessional kind of comic, dies at 76

May 2, 2022 at 8:51 a.m.

Justin Green, a Chicago native whose early underground comix of the 1960s and 1970s influenced several generations of artists to adapt their most painful personal experiences into comics, died recently....

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