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Science fiction: The City and the City on stage

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

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Arthur C Clarke award-winning author China Miéville’s story is being performed by the Lifeline Theatre  in Chicago. The theatre company who has been entertaining for thirty years, have performed works such as Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by Tolkien, Cats Cradle and Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut. I am [...]

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Chicago, Chicago, it’s Chris Ware’s kinda town…

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

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The brilliant Chris Ware has created the cover for volume 108 of respected literary journal Granta, which has a theme based around the Windy City, Chicago. Ware, as ever, has produced a lovely, deceptively simple, clean piece of illustration; I think it has a nice, fairly timeless quality to it – I could easily imagine [...]

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