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Jose Perez Beduya's first book Throng takes us "inside the bright wheel" where selfhood and community whirl along the event horizon of an elusive centre—the fused question of the Singular and the Common. The poems are fierce, tensile, and assured, but also display a heartbreaking vulnerability.

Recognises the most provocative, hardest-hitting, deadly serious, patently absurd, cutting-edge, avant-everything-and-nothing work from the years 2009-11. It features writing as a contemporary art form: writing as it is practiced today by authors who consciously treat their work as an art, and as a practice explicitly aware of its own literary and extra-literary history - as much about its form and materials, language, as it about its subject ...

Elizabeth Gentry's debut, Housebound, is a novel like no other: a disquieting and interior fairy-tale adventure through one family's secrets and lies. Maggie, the eldest daughter, is preparing to leave the house in which she's lived, worked, and been educated her whole life: a life led seemingly without contact with the outside world, save in the form of weekly trips to the library for the stories that are the only escape for Maggie and her ei...

30 Miles North chronicles the social, political, and intellectual development of Lake Forest College, a liberal arts college located north of Chicago, from 1855 to the present. It examines the establishment and growth of the town of Lake Forest and the city of Chicago and their influence on the College. The book also includes a discussion of collegiate life including athletics, campus and local architecture, and landscaping.

This book is a cabinet of curiosities of things deformed, disabled, reformed and enabled...A book that combines the metacriticism of Tristram Shandy with the randomness of a complex video game, Henderson has created a unique work that aims at being extraordinary, arcane, and eminently accessible.

Hunting is Painting is the debut collection by Jessica Savitz, winner of the inaugural Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer's Residency Prize from Lake Forest College Press / &NOW, Books. This haunting collection offers Savitz's world: where the cunning and ruthlessness of the hunter exactly parallels that of the artist-naturalist, an Audubonesque figure who uses a "gun as microscope" and for whom "Slaughtering the animal / Was like freeing h...

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This is an epic love poem depicting the eternal gothic romance between man and machine. Titanic's protagonist is Alan Turing, cracker of codes and father of artificial intelligence. Turing escapes his frustrated love life and tragic death into the safe haven of virtual reality. The setting shifts from Snow White's forest to Ludwig Wittgenstein's seminar at Cambridge, amid iMessage chats and appearances by a cast of thrilling guest stars.

Whether by road, rail, water, or sky... people come to Chicago. In droves. But how do they get to Chicago? Terminal Town answers this question with a fast-moving history of Chicago's many passenger transportation terminals. Showcasing great icons of transportation as well as lesser-known and long-gone terminals throughout the metropolitan region, this book illustrates why the Windy City so richly deserves its reputation as America's premier tr...

This third volume of The &NOW, AWARDS recognizes the hard-esthitting, most provocative, deadly serious, patently absurd, cutting-edge, avant-everything-and-nothing work from the years 2011 through 2013. The &NOW, AWARDS series, edited by Davis Schneiderman, features writing as a contemporary art form--writing as it is practiced today by authors who conscious-ly treat their work as an art and as a practice explicitly aware of its own literary a...

In 2002, art collector and philanthropist Madeleine P. Plonsker began traveling to Cuba to uncover Havana's thriving art scene. The Light in Cuban Eyes focuses on Cuban photography between 1992 and 2012. The fifty artists represented in this bilingual book shoot their worlds in styles ranging from fabulist to gritty.

Presents the story of an exceptional architect and of more than 100 design projects, some of which seemed outlandish when built, but many of which appear timeless today.

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An American odyssey in miniature, Pike and Bloom maps the trajectories of three characters - Pike, Bloom, and Clytie - as they spiral through "the serious blues of Indianapolis”, attempting to construct meaning from the absurd. Together, Pike, Bloom, and Clytie navigate the city's circling and crisscrossing pathways in their attempts to find out what is real.

Breathes new life into Chicago's historic Little Theater Movement. This illustrated edition of two of Kenneth Sawyer Goodman's best-known plays, The Wonder Hat and Back of the Yards, recalls that Goodman wrote and produced his own works before the influenza epidemic of 1918 cut short his life.