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Poetry combining terse yet vivid imagery with a tone that evokes a particular detachment and a kind of sparse beauty.

Photos and description of artist Juan Angel Chavez's exploration of found and borrowed urban objects transformed into a large-scale fantasy "speaker" exhibition in collaboration with sound performers.

A collection of poems by Illinois poets.

A beautifully photographed portfolio of interiors designed by Chicago design firm Gary Lee Partners with an introduction by Kira L. Gould

a collection of poems by Thax Douglas, a Chicago poet and fixture at Chicago area shows, who often introduces/opens for bands by reading poems on stage, often composed shortly before the performance

Selections From The Serial Killer Cookbook (The Handbook For America's Youth) takes a hard look at the society in which we are raised. J. Coburn asks the questions everyone is afraid to ask and leaves the reader's mind open to explore those questions. Here there are no limits, no rules, and no morals...here there is only REALITY!

An examination of Chicago history and policy as it relates to race inequality, particularly in regards to education, housing, and employment

A collection of recipes from the first 50 years of Ann Sather Restaurant.

Published to coincide with a two-part exhibition presented in 2008 at the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands and at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, Heartland offers an idiosyncratic look at innovative forms of cultural production taking place across the vast majority of the United States. This book is part exhibition catalog, part critical reader: contributors explore the region through topics ranging from art and music to urban farming and political history. Through an engaging mix of essays, personal meditations, and images, Heartland challenges understandings of place and community and explores the rule of contemporary art in shaping our changing world. --from book jacket

"A series of maps, or worlds, 'tied so tight they couldn't crane their necks;" elsewhere described as a "novel-in-stories"