William Shunn

Penman, poet, programmer, puzzlemaker. Hugo and Nebula Award nominee. Author of The Accidental Terrorist: Confessions of a Reluctant Missionary.

Reading #61

Reminder: Tuesday Funk #61 is tonight!

Don't forget—tonight is Tuesday Funk's 61st episode, featuring Aleksandar Hemon, Virginia Konchan, Lania Knight, Norman Doucet, and William Shunn.  Don't miss it! Our readings take place at Hopleaf Bar, 5148 N. Clark St. in Chicago.  We get started promptly at 7:30 pm

Essays Videos

Video: Maggie Jenkins has an educational supplement she'd like to sell you

At our August 6th edition of Tuesday Funk, Maggie Jenkins told us what she did for her summer vacation, and it went a little bit like this... And if you enjoyed that, please join us at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013, upstairs at Hopleaf, for an evening

Participants Reading #61

Meet Our Readers: Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, as well as The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man, Love and Obstacles and The Book of My Lives. He has worked as a waiter, canvasser,

Participants Reading #61

Meet Our Readers: Norman Doucet

Norman Doucet hails from the den of the southern rebellion, Charleston, South Carolina. Influenced by the duality that exists there, he made some interesting decisions, starting with attending the college—founded after a slave revolt—which also has the dubious distinction of producing the two cadets who fired the first

Fiction Videos

Video: Brad Beaulieu takes us to court

At our August 6th edition of Tuesday Funk, Brad Beaulieu read us an excerpt from a tale of court intrigue set in Imperial Japan, and it went just a little like this... And if you enjoyed that, please join us at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013, upstairs

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Help the Chicago Writers Conference this Thursday!

Tuesday Funk is a big supporter of the Chicago Writers Conference, and we'd like to encourage you—nay, urge you—to support this worthwhile endeavor at its annual benefit party! The benefit takes place this coming Thursday, August 29th, at 6:30 pm, and will help support CWC&

Participants Reading #61

Meet Our Readers: William Shunn

William Shunn began his professional software development career at WordPerfect in 1991, where he wrote 80x86 assembly language code and helped kill the DOS version of the venerable word processor. Ironically, he still uses WordPerfect for most of his prose writing, which includes more than thirty works of short fiction.

Fiction Videos

Video: Jac Jemc charts the process of moral decay

At our August 6th edition of Tuesday Funk, Jac Jemc read us her short story of juvenile delinquency, "Filch and Rot," and it sounded a lot like this... And if you enjoyed that, please join us at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013, upstairs at Hopleaf,

Participants Reading #61

Meet Our Readers: Lania Knight

Lania Knight's first book, Three Cubic Feet, is a 2012 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Debut Fiction. Her work has been published or will appear soon in Fourth Genre, New Stories from the Midwest, The Missouri Review, Literary Mama, PANK, Midwestern Gothic, Jabberwock Review, and elsewhere. She lives

Poetry Videos

Video: Andrew Huff exercises his poetic license

At our August 6th edition of Tuesday Funk, co-host Andrew Huff brought forth more topical haiku from his fevered brain, and it went just a little like this... And if you enjoyed that, please join us at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013, upstairs at Hopleaf, for an

Participants Reading #61

Meet Our Readers: Virginia Konchan

Virginia Konchan's poems have appeared in Best New Poets, The Believer, The New Yorker, and The New Republic, her criticism in Quarterly Conversation, Barzakh Magazine, and Boston Review, and her fiction in StoryQuarterly and Joyland, among other places.  Co-founder of Matter, a journal of poetry and political commentary,

Essays Videos

Video: Dmitry Samarov just wants to get home

At our August 6th edition of Tuesday Funk, Dmitry Samarov told us what happened to him the night the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup, and it sounded a little like this... And if you enjoyed that, please join us at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013, upstairs at

Poetry Videos

Video: Andrew Huff demonstrates his bravery

At our June 4th edition of Tuesday Funk, co-host Andrew Huff demonstrated his bravery by reading some of his high school poetry in Bill's absence, and it sounded quite a bit like this... And if you enjoyed that, please join us at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, September

Readings Hopleaf

Tuesday Funk #61: September 3, 2013

Brace yourself, because do we have an amazing Tuesday Funk lined up for you! For our 61st episode, we've put together a roster that includes MacArthur Fellowship winner Aleksandar Hemon, whose recent The Book of My Lives has been garnering acclaim around the world. As if that'

Debriefings Videos

August debriefing

It was a packed house for this week's edition of Tuesday Funk at Hopleaf.  If you weren't able to be there, here's what our terrific, attentive audience saw. We kicked things off with Dmitry Samarov, who walked us through his travails the night the

Reading #60

Reminder: Tuesday Funk #60 is tonight!

Don't forget—tonight is Tuesday Funk's 60th episode, featuring Bradley P. Beaulieu, Jac Jemc, Steven H Silver, Maggie Jenkins, and Dmitry Samarov.  Don't miss it! Our readings take place at Hopleaf Bar, 5148 N. Clark St. in Chicago.  We get started promptly at 7:

Essays Videos

Video: Kendra Stevens proves she's scrappy

At our July 2nd edition of Tuesday Funk, Kendra Stevens brought us back to her childhood in her delightful personal essay "Emily Olsen's Face, Meet My Fist," and it sounded a little like this... And if you enjoyed that, please join us at 7:30 pm

Essays Videos

Video: Heather Corallo counts teeth

At our June 4th edition of Tuesday Funk, Heather Corallo presented her personal essay "A Mother's Love," and it sounded quite a bit like this... And if you enjoyed that, please join us at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, August 6th, 2013, upstairs at Hopleaf, for

Participants Reading #60

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 of his house so it doesn'

Poetry Videos

Video: Andrew Huff rips haiku from the headlines

At our July 2nd edition of Tuesday Funk, co-host Andrew Huff delivered another fistful of his signature topical—but not tropical—haiku: Some lucky people are a haiku on their own. Eden M. Robins. This rain will not stop. Our homes will soon float away. Chicago renewed. What I'

Participants Videos

Meet Our Readers: Maggie Jenkins

Maggie Jenkins is a comic, storyteller, writer, runner, and rapper. She performs standup regularly with the kates, a twice-monthly all-female comedy showcase, and has also performed at the Chicago Women's Funny Festival, Zanies, Studio BE, and The Lincoln Lodge. Maggie has been a featured storyteller at The Funny

Fiction Videos

Video: Bill Breedlove puts an adorable puppet through hell

At our July 2nd edition of Tuesday Funk, Bill Breedlove read his short story "Missus Mojo" to a disbelieving crowd, and it sounded just a bit like this... And if you enjoyed that, please join us at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, August 6th, 2013, upstairs at Hopleaf,

Participants Reading #60

Meet Our Readers: Dmitry Samarov

Dmitry Samarov was born in Moscow, U.S.S.R., in 1970. He emigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1978. He got in trouble in 1st grade for doodling on his Lenin Red Star pin and hasn't stopped doodling since. After a false start at

Poetry Videos

Video: G.P.A. woos us with beers and Bears

At our June 4th edition of Tuesday Funk, G.P.A. (Greatest Poet Alive) shared some of his secrets for wooing a sports fan. We only captured part of his performance due to battery issues, but what we did get sounded a lot like this: And if you enjoyed that,

Participants Reading #60

Meet Our Readers: Jac Jemc

Jac Jemc is the author of the novel My Only Wife and a forthcoming collection of stories, A Different Bed Every Time, both from Dzanc Books. Her chapbook of stories, These Strangers She'd Invited In, was published by Greying Ghost Press. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming