76 TABS THAT ARE OPEN ON MY PHONE RIGHT NOW, Part 2 of 2 (#39-#76)
People of Rogers Park. A guy who lives in my neighborhood photographs and interviews random other residents he meets on the street. He posts the results here, and it’s one of my favorite zines ever. Probably because I love this neighborhood and its people so much, and seems like this interviewer/photographer does too, and because the interviews often get into random real insights and observations, e.g.: “But I believe in literature. I truly do. I think stories are incredibly important. I think books save lives. There’s a quote from Alan Bennett, the English playwright, from The History Boys…one of the teachers in it is talking about how sometimes when you’re reading—and you might be reading something from somebody long dead and gone—but suddenly, they’re saying what you feel. And he says—and it’s as if a hand has reached out and taken yours. That just so, so, so resonates with me.” “When’s the last time a hand reached out and took yours?,” asks the interviewer, and it goes on from the…