Reading # 32

Video: Joe Weintraub investigates the screenwriter Henry Frank

If you missed our March 1st reading, Joe Weintraub has kindly allowed us to post a video excerpt from the excerpt of his performance piece "An Investigation into the Life of the Screenwriter, Henry Frank" from which he read that...  read

March debriefing

We at Tuesday Funk were delighted last week, delighted, to see our wonderful audience rebound after February's blizzard, once again giving us a standing-room-only event in the upstairs lounge at Hopleaf. What's all the fuss about? Let us fill you...  read

Reminder: Tuesday Funk #32 is tonight!

You've survived the Great Chicago Blizzard of '11. You've survived the mayoral campaign. You've survived the coyotes in Winnemac Park. You've even survived your Oscars party. (Okay, scratch that last one. The Oscars were insufferable.) The point is, you're a...  read

Meet Our Readers: Joe Weintraub

For the past thirty or so years, Joe Weintraub has been publishing fiction, essays, translations, and poetry in all sorts of literary reviews and periodicals, from The Massachusetts Review to Modern Philology. He has had one-act plays produced in New...  read

Meet Our Readers: Steven H Silver

Steven H Silver is a publisher, editor, author, poet, and reviewer ... in his "free time." When he isn't messing around in the literary arts, he raises his two daughters, spends time with his wife, and shores up the foundation...  read

Meet Our Readers: Keith Ecker

Keith Ecker is the co-producer of Essay Fiesta, a monthly reading series at the Book Cellar. He has been invited to read at numerous shows throughout Chicago. He is also a professional freelance writer, specializing in travel, technology and law,...  read

Meet Our Readers: Jenny Seay

Jenny Seay was in the third grade when she first decided to be a writer. Her pursuit of this dream has never been simple or straightforward, but she continues to follow it anyway, knowing that the journey has taken her to some...  read

Meet Our Readers: Maggie Kast

Maggie Kast grew up with egg nog on Christmas morning and clambakes on the beach in summer. She learned to cook from Fannie Farmer and Julia Child, while marriage broadened her horizons to inlcude Tafelspitz and Salburger Nockerln. Her M.F.A.—Writing...  read

Tuesday Funk #32: March 1st

Our next event, Tuesday, March 1, 2011, features readings from Joe Weintraub, Keith Ecker, Maggie Kast, Steven H Silver and Jenny Seayread
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Tuesday Funk is an eclectic Chicago reading series, hosted by Andrew Huff and Eden Robins, showcasing a mix of fiction, poetry, essays and performance. Join us next on Tuesday, April 2, 7:30 p.m. at Hopleaf, 5148 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60640. Admission is free.

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