Chris Terry | Marginalia

Here’s a not-so-scientific breakdown of just how much a grad degree from Columbia College Chicago will age you!

The MFA in Creative..

It is possible for grad students to live on campus, and I think that they try to room grads with other grads. However, the one grad I ..

Cate said we could write a “What I Did Over Winter Break” post so, since I woke up when it was still dark so I could go run, then work..

Advanced is the fourth writing class in the Story Workshop. From my first semester, I heard people talking about the Steeplechase proj..

When I uploaded my resume to the ColumbiaWorks student employment site, I was hoping to get a part-time administrative job in the Fict..

Creative writing MFA programs always ask for a writing sample as part of the application. Usually, they want 20-25 pages of fiction. C..

Last week, I discussed the first half of this quote from the piece “Notes” in Tim O’Brien’s book, “The Things They Carried.”

By telli..

I’ve been reading “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien, and found this quote in the story “Notes:”

By telling stories, you obje..

Quimby’s is a fringe bookstore in Wicker Park, just a couple blocks away from the three-way intersection of North, Damen and Milwaukee..