Nonfiction

In response to the torture inflicted by the Chicago Police from 1972 to 1992, and as part of The Chicago Torture Justice Memorial Project, Lucky Pierre is creating 1000 actions for Chicago torture justice.

Gang Leader for a day is the story of Sudhir Venkatesh meeting with a gang leader named TJ and working with him for a decade to learn about the drug business in Chicago.

In moving from the East Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago to Logan Square, author Marc Fischer began going to a new post office. Much to his chagrin, the level of service at the new post office was not up to his standards. Marc expressed this displeasure in a series of Facebook posts, which have been compiled here in book form.

New Voices consists of student interviews with stories of friends, family, and strangers. The collection is inspired by the work of legendary storyteller, Studs Terkel.

Taken from inside front flap: The Dynamic Library presents essays in translation from an interdisciplinary symposium on the classification and organization of knowledge held at Sitterwerk, St. Gallen, in 2011...The essays gathered in The Dynamic Library contextualize the Sitterwerk's associative classification system amid artistic and historical systems of order, while pointing to future methods for incorporating subjectivity and serendipity into the organization of knowledge

The anonymity movement is a movement against the perversion of the aesthetic experience; a movement against the categorization & generalization of art; a movement away from erroneous metonymy. The unchecked adolescence of the aesthetic experience has led to an identity-centered, egotistical atmosphere and existence of art. What this new interaction of the observer and the art has begot is an overdiagnostic art theory, concerning itself with nothings and unmerited subjective judgments: removing the importance of craft & versification, and relying on the use of mass media & aristocracy to place importance on the identity of the artist, so that the importance placed by the observer on the art is minimal, in favor of, instead, the name of the artist by whom it was crafted.

The ARC Digest is meant to archive in print the activities of Chicago’s artist-run spaces between 1999-2009. It acts both as a companion to the exhibition and an extension of that project with interviews by Dan Gunn, essays by Abigail Satinsky, The Pond, Scott Speh and John Neff, Mary Jane Jacob and Lori Waxman, and an accompanying audio program by Bad At Sports featuring an interview with Temporary Services and a panel of Chicago artist-run media organizers.

"Here we are at the dawn of a Trump era. President Orangeface, President Troll, is the elected leader of the United States of America and we still cannot believe it. Months after his electoral overthrow we still find ourselves stressed, depressed, and completely on edge about what this means for our collective futures." - issue introduction