/lit/ - Literature

>>17987493
Chicago is like New York, but with more industry (at least historically speaking, most of it has left now) and fewer Jews (unless you count the suburbs, which you shouldn't.) I don't know if I'd call it /lit/. The Newberry Library probably counts for something, although you have to be an academic or a student to access their collection. Their yearly book sale is great, though. The Chicago Public Library has a pretty decent collection, but their facilities are godawful. Not only are most of the buildings homeless magnets, but all the new libraries constructed over the past couple years seem to have been designed to minimize the amount of space dedicated to books. This is a problem all over the US, but it's particularly bad in Chicago. The Harold Washington Library, the main branch where most of the books are, is also an abomination. It looks kind of nice from the outside, but the interior is a complete nightmare to navigate and has all the ambiance of a municipal courtroom crossed with a truck stop bathroom. There are good used bookstores all over the place, but none of them are as big as the ones in New York. The Powell's Books near the University of Chicago has a lot of good stuff as a result of students and professors using it to get rid of their old books.

>>16587600
dont worry bro we got so post modern we are starting to get pre modern
and once we forget how we got here in the first place its gunna be 1890 for the next 900 years!