Nonfiction

"Chicago IRL (In Real Life) is an arts and literary digest cataloging contemporary queer creative culture in Chicago. We hope not only to document existing queer talent but also to inspire new collaborations and explorations. Although much of our coordination uses the internet to connect us with contributors, we desire to encourage new interactions in real life as well. Chicago IRL is a zine made by and for the disenchanted, hopeful, and unemployed revolutionaries, muppets, and magicians to capture the spirit of a new dawn, whatever that means."

Writers' Block: Stories from the Inside, a 36-page zine, is a compilation of deeply personal narratives, visceral creative writing and provocative scholarly essay taken from Beyondmedia's Women and Prison website. *

The Transformative Justice Teach-In Zine is meant to accompany the Transforming the Roots workshop. It contains advice for various minorities and poor people, and also defines terms and profiles Leslie Feinberg, Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P . Johnson and Audre Lorde.

Trading Punches With Grandma is a zine by Scott Neil Miles that contains fiction, interviews and art.

Chicago-based art magazine founded in 1973. This issue features stories on art and AIDS, avant-garde music, and artist-dealer contracts.

The Voice is a quarterly journal devoted to documenting historic buildings in need of preservation. This issue discusses several buildings designed by Andrew Sullivan, as well as other buildings in Chicago.

Chicago Review is an international journal of writing and critical exchange published quarterly in the Division of Humanities of the University of Chicago, and supported in part from a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. *

An introductory pamphlet on the philosophy of assessing books by evaluating sight, smell, touch, and taste.

This is Chester Alamo Et Costello's book of photography of his grandfather. It tells his grandfather's entire history.

In our logo we have called ourselves "a journal of Chicago writing and art." The Chicago school of literature is very much like the people, the politicians, the style, the neighborhoods of the city that inspires an artistic vice that is unpretentious, aware of the realities and inequalities of materialism yet sentimental in a streetwise-front-stoop-backyard sort of way. So often Chicago is thought of as unrefined or unsophisticated ... a city of big-shouldered thugs, scandal, dirty alleys ad factory workers. But what Chicago lacks in polish, it makes up for in honesty. Chicago writers pull no punches. Chicago writers find a beauty in big-shouldered thugs, scandal, dirty alleys ad factory workers. *