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Chicagoist was looking for something literary to do this week, and stumbled upon a couple of readings of Colleen Curran's first novel, Whores on the Hill. We read the blurb at Women & Children First--young women at the last all-girls high school in Milwaukee in the 80's: the sex, the drinking, the drugs--and have to admit that we were a little turned off. We were super nerds in high school (and, yes, beyond) and lacked... more ›

While we’re not sure the Generation X label exists anymore (aren’t we just called “adults” now?), Gen X godfather Douglas Coupland will probably never escape it. Call it his albatross, if you will: despite a prodigious and decidedly non-slacker output of fiction, nonfiction, sculpture, design, and theater, he will forever be associated with the disaffected burn-out demographic he helped identify with his debut novel way back in 1991. more ›