Reading # 69

May You Read These Haiku

Co-host Andrew Huff gave folks another taste of his topical haiku at the May 6 edition of Tuesday Funk. April ends with rain. May begins with flowers, if they're not waterlogged. Free Comic Book Day! May the Fourth be with...  read

May Debriefing

There ain't no party like a Tuesday Funk #69 party, and a Tuesday Funk #69 party don't stop... until about 9:15pm. We started the night off right with an excerpt from Gint Aras's novel Finding the Moon in Sugar, about...  read

Reminder: Tuesday Funk #69 is tonight!

It's seis de mayo, everybody! What better way to celebrate this popular holiday than by attending the time-honored "Tuesday Funk," complete with authentic libations and traditional garb! That's right, it's Tuesday Funk #69 - with special guests Melissa Wiley, James...  read

Meet Our Readers: Dustin Monk

Dustin Monk is a graduate of Clarion Writers' Workshop. His fiction, interviews, and book reviews have appeared in Shimmer, Digital Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Bull Spec, among others. He blogs at www.dustinmonk.wordpress.com and you can follow him on twitter...  read

Meet Our Readers: Jeremy Owens

Jeremy Owens is the creator and producer of You're Being Ridiculous, which has a new show coming up on May 16, 23 & 30 at Mary's Attic. He has told stories with Lifeline Theatre's Filet of Solo Festival, Story Club,...  read

Meet Our Readers: James Finn Garner

James Finn Garner is best known as the author of the international best-seller, Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, which sold more than 2 million copies in the US and was translated into 25 languages. He has been published in Chicago Magazine,...  read

Meet Our Readers: Gint Aras

Gint Aras (Karolis Gintaras Žukauskas) has been trapped on planet Earth since 1973. His writing has appeared in Square One, Antique Children, Criminal Class Review, The Hellgate Review, Curbside Splendor, Šiaurės Atėnai, Dialogo, The Good Men Project and other publications....  read

Meet Our Readers: Melissa Wiley

Melissa Wiley is a freelance writer and editor seizing every opportunity to walk barefoot with half-painted toenails through airport security and stammer in pidgin tongues. Her travel writing has been anthologized in Whereabouts: Stepping Out of Place, and she is...  read

Tuesday Funk #69: May 6, 2014

Chicago is finally thawing, and with any luck, by the next edition of Tuesday Funk we'll have blossoms on the trees. The 69th edition of your eclectic monthly reading series will feature James Finn Garner, Melissa Wiley, Gint Aras, Jeremy...  read
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