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Michigander and Chicago adventurer Bonnie Jo Campbell is one of five authors nominated for this year's National Book Award, the nation's most...
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The featured guest for the semi-regular Friday Feature is Tod Goldberg, whose second story collection Other Resort Cities is in bookstores now. You...
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Peter Ferry's debut novel Travel Writing is about a narrator named Peter Ferry who takes a sabattical from his teaching job to uncover the truth about...
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Peter Ferry has given novelists an answer to the tired but eternal question “how much of this is true?” The writer can tell the audience...
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Whether the Gothic Funk is a budding literary empire or an experimental literary collective, it sounds as if they know how to throw a party. Tonight...
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Cicero-born Lithuanian-bred Gint Aras prefers you to know him by his middle name. His full name is Karolis Gintaras Zukauskas, which roughly...
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Though the countries of the former Soviet Republic are underrepresented in backpacker fiction, the ones we do have are pretty damn funny. Gary...
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He's the recipient of the Chicago Public Library's 21st Century Award. He's been called a storyteller you won't forget. His first novel The Cradle has...
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Patrick Somerville's a dick. Not just because he's a Packers' fan (and Green Bay native), but because when he followed up his acclaimed story...
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Novelist Steven Schindler spent a decade in television before turning to the novel as a storytelling form. The Bronx native and LA resident spent five...
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- Tod Goldberg
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- Gint Aras on Finding the Moon in Sugar
- Patrick Somerville
- Steven Schindler On the Bluffs
- Bonnie Jo Campbell
- David Peak
- 'Captive Audience' with Dave Reidy
- J. Adams Oaks on Why I Fight
- Billy Lombardo on the 'thing within'
- Megan Stielstra on 2nd Story
- Sam Weller and The Bradbury Chronicles
- Michael Czyzniejewski
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- 2ND STORY, second Sunday/month, 7PM, $10, Webster's Wine Bar
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