Self

In the second installment of his Ultra Local Geography, Larry Shure documents the "functional beauty" of the portals to various buildings in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. An exhaustive zine-cum-architectural-guidebook, it documents and describes the features of eleven doors, including date, architect, building owner, cost, size, building materials, and even the reference information for the City of Chicago building permits. Shure provides drawings of the doors, their building facades, and street addresses/intersections.

Small, local literary magazine published by Lauren Salmi. This particular issue is all poetry. It was the last issue before the name of the magazine was changed to Indelible Ink.

A collection of short stories about somethings that never help and bad habits that shouldn't exist. Of hopelessness and the reality of life in which we all try to escape.

Highly fictional account of a night in the life of "Professor Davis" and all the amazing adventures contained therein, including (but not limited to) playing checkers with a skeleton, breaking into Mayor Daley's house, and providing musical accompaniment for prostitutes.

A collage of memoir-type reflections, particularly musings on love and personal relationships, exaninations of religious faith and spirituality, and reflections on the death of the author's loved ones. Very much a personal zine.

The fourth issue of Chicago-based 1980s zine Vice Versa, with fiction and poetry from Chicago and Chicago-area writers.

John Phillips writes, as the cover of the zine indicates, "an anarchist analysis of Arizona's immigration law" (SB 1070, signed April 23, 2010, which gave Arizona police broad powers to detain anyone suspected of being in the U.S. illegally). Phillips is a Pennsylvanian, but the zine is distributed locally by South Chicago ABC Zine Distro of Homewood, IL.

Poems by Evanston resident Stephen G. Wingeier. Themes include politics and the environment.

Poems on a variety of themes, including love, nature, and political activism, by Evanston resident Stephen Wingeier. Cover photograph by Kathi Osburn.

Fuel is a literary zine of fiction, poetry, and art from various contributors.