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Category Archive: Essays

Everybody’s a Suspect: A Love for ‘Scream’

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Classic final girls usually make it through a horror movie bloodied, terrified, and shaken to the core from […]

Ashley Nickell November 2, 2017 Essays, Halloween IV, Movie Reviews

A Ghost Story? An Essay by Ann Elliot

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Do I believe in ghosts? I don’t know. I believe in atmospheres engendered by people who are long […]

Chicago Literati October 25, 2017 Current Issue, Essays, Feature Issues, Halloween IV

Confronting Darkness: Watching Fire Walk with Me for the First Time by Melissa Brooks

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It was late at night in a lamp-less room. Un-curtained windows looked out on a lamp-less street. Any […]

Chicago Literati September 8, 2017 Current Issue, Essays, Feature Issues, It Is Happening Again: A Special Series Dedicated to Twin Peaks

A Singular Joy by Rebecca Soldan

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When I was four years old my mother consulted a doctor about my behavior: “Is it normal that […]

Chicago Literati September 8, 2017 Current Issue, Essays, Feature Issues, It Is Happening Again: A Special Series Dedicated to Twin Peaks

I Am Dead and Yet I Live by Michelle Brooks

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My friend Hank always contended that to have a successful party, you needed at least two rooms. You […]

Chicago Literati September 8, 2017 Current Issue, Essays, Feature Issues, It Is Happening Again: A Special Series Dedicated to Twin Peaks

Post-Identity by Mark Palermo

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Twenty-five years ago, Twin Peaks was about the possibility of innocence in a town coping with a horrific […]

Chicago Literati August 27, 2017 Essays, It Is Happening Again: A Special Series Dedicated to Twin Peaks

Warm Milk by Zack Peercy

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My relationship with David Lynch is a lot like the opening scene of season two of Twin Peaks, […]

Chicago Literati August 25, 2017 Essays, It Is Happening Again: A Special Series Dedicated to Twin Peaks

Punxsutawney & Peaks by Sarah Simon

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I’m not going to watch the second season; I already see it. Getting into Twin Peaks in college […]

Chicago Literati August 25, 2017 Essays, It Is Happening Again: A Special Series Dedicated to Twin Peaks

When You See Me Again, It Won’t Be Me: Growing Up With Laura Palmer by Audrey Lee

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The first person who told me to watch Twin Peaks died last year. Through Facebook, the passing was […]

Chicago Literati August 23, 2017 Essays, It Is Happening Again: A Special Series Dedicated to Twin Peaks

Let Nerd Passion Into Your Heart by James Folta

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For as long as I’d been an opinionated nerd, I knew that not having seen Twin Peaks was […]

Chicago Literati August 23, 2017 Essays, It Is Happening Again: A Special Series Dedicated to Twin Peaks

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