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Chicago lit news from around the web:

Keir Graff interviews Jonathan Messinger about his book, Hiding Out, and juggling roles as a writer, editor and publisher.

ELevated Verse has returned to CTA platforms around the city. The project, which is in its second year, features poetry written by Chicago students enrolled in the Poetry Center of Chicago's Hands on Stanzas program.

Mr. Wonderful by Daniel Clowes continues in the New York Times Magazine.Related: An English teacher in Guilford, Conn. resigned after giving a freshman student a copy of Clowes' Eightball #22, and her parents freaked.

• Publisher's Weekly has a short interview with Studs Terkel.

• The San Francisco Chronicle reviews The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders.

 
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