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“The train thundered deafeningly, and a storm of dust blew in his face; but though it stopped now and then through the night, he clung where he was — he would cling there until he was driven off, for every mile that he got from Packingtown meant another load from his mind.”

The Jungle, Upton Sinclair

Packingtown Review was founded in 2007 at the University of Illinois at Chicago by a group of Ph.D. students in the English department. The journal features poetry, prose, drama, literary scholarship, and cultural commentary and reflects the UIC English departments interdisciplinary approach. Packingtown Review publishes established and emerging US-American and international writers as well as English translations of contemporary and classic works, especially from lesser-known languages. The first issue is slated for publication in March 2009, and the second in November 2009. After the second release, the journal will be issued biannually.

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