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Some personal news! Today I'm launching Chicago Literary Archive — an open-source, online library dedicated to Chicago literature, printing, and publishing from 1837 to today. chicagoliteraryarchive.org

Meet Henry Blake Fuller (1857-1929). ✅First nationally acclaimed Chicago writer ✅9 novels, 5 other books ✅Queer lit pioneer in Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame ❌Frequently misogynistic and xenophobic chicagoliteraryarchive.org/2021/01/02/hen…

“I am not the world’s foremost scholar of Chicago literature. But I guess it’s fair to say I am definitely its biggest fan.” Thanks to chris borrelli for interviewing me about the new Chicago Literary Archive Archive in the Chicago Tribune. chicagotribune.com/entertainment/…

The original 1872 edition of 'Through the Flames and Beyond: Chicago As It Was and As It Is,' published just a few months after the fire.

Golden Moments (1913), a small, handbound poetry anthology published by the short-lived Chicago postcard printer Acmegraph Co, which only operated from 1908 to 1918.