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July 2025 Debrief

Debriefings Reading #160

July 2025 Debrief

It was downright hot on the first of July, but we stayed nice and cool in the upstairs lounge of Hopleaf, ready for the 160th edition of Tuesday Funk! Victoria Montalbano got things started with a funny story about being an in-store shopper for a now wildly successful college classmate.

Meet the Readers: Martha Bayne

Participants Reading #160

Meet the Readers: Martha Bayne

Martha Bayne is a writer and editor in and around Chicago. Currently a senior acquisitions editor at the University of Illinois Press, she has worked in journalism and publishing for 30 years, since she first started publishing a zine in 1995, and recently returned to self-publishing with a Substack newsletter

Tuesday Funk #160 - July 1, 2025

Readings Reading #160

Tuesday Funk #160: July 1, 2025

July 1 will be the 160th episode of Chicago's favorite eclectic reading series! Join us in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf for readings by Martha Bayne, Chris Corlew, Chris Gleason, Ursa Miles, and Victoria Montalbano. Maybe it will even consistently feel like summer by then! Admission to Tuesday

Meet Our Readers: Martha Bayne

Participants Reading #93

Meet Our Readers: Martha Bayne

Martha Bayne is a freelance writer and editor, and the editor-in-chief of Belt Magazine, an independent online magazine covering the postindustrial midwest. Her features and essays have appeared in the Chicago Reader, the Chicago Tribune, Crain's, Occupy.com, Belt, the Baffler, and the independent literary site the Rumpus,

Tuesday Funk for May 3, 2016

Reading #93 Witt Sara Ross

Tuesday Funk #93 -- May 3, 2016

The next installment of Tuesday Funk, your favorite eclectic monthly reading series, is May 3! Join us in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf for readings by Elizabeth Gomez, J Preston Witt, Martha Bayne, Kimberly Dixon-Mays and Sara Ross Witt! No relation between those two Witts, as far as we know.