Emmett Rensin
Former Deputy First Person Editor
Latest articles by Emmett Rensin
There’s more to the city than smog and celebrities.
Paul Lisicky has produced an honest, frustrating, and worthwhile account that is not always pleasurable to read but does accomplish something new.
I am not an obsessive viewer of anything — except this television series.
By 24, I am afraid of so many things. Buses, trains, cars, airplanes; heights and buildings and ladders; my own body.
Featuring everything from graphic novels for young adults to the interior lives of octopi.
I wanted to know what these men were like, not on Reddit or on Twitter or on any other forum where they are actively engaged in their cause, but in ordinary life — relaxed, after having a few, and without a keyboard to take it out on.
Chicagoans want to love their pols. Emanuel was an arranged marriage.
Trolling was always juvenile. It wasn’t always this cruel.