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Meet Our Readers: Maggie Kast

Participants Reading #141

Meet Our Readers: Maggie Kast

Maggie Kast is the author of The Crack Between the Worlds: a dancer's memoir of loss, faith and family (Wipf and Stock, 2009) and a novel, A Free, Unsullied Land (Fomite Press, 2015). Side by Side but Never Face to Face, a novella plus stories, was published by

Tuesday Funk #141 - Sept. 1, 2020

Readings Reading #141

Quarantuesday Funk #141: Sept. 1, 2020

Your favorite eclectic monthly reading series helps you ease into autumn with its next show on Tuesday, Sept. 1! Join us "live" on the Tuesday Funk YouTube channel: youtube.com/TuesdayFunk for readings by Kathleen Rooney, Veronica Arreola, Rayshauna Gray, Keidra Chaney and Maggie Kast. The show will

Meet Our Readers: Maggie Kast

Participants Reading #81

Meet Our Readers: Maggie Kast

Maggie Kast is the author of The Crack between the Worlds: a dancer's memoir of loss, faith and family, published by Wipf and Stock. Her first novel, A Free, Unsullied Land, is forthcoming from Fomite Press in autumn 2015. "The Hate that Chills," a story excerpted

Tuesday Funk for May 5, 2015

Readings Reading #81

Tuesday Funk #81: May 5, 2015

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with some live lit at Tuesday Funk! Your favorite eclectic monthly reading series returns to the upstairs lounge at Hopleaf, 5148 N. Clark St. in Chicago, on Tuesday, May 5, 2015, with guests Wesley Chu, Jenny Drai, Melissa Franic, Maggie Kast and Jack Silverstein! Plus, our

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Video: Maggie Kast takes us to Scottsboro

For Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we're pleased to share Maggie Kast's reading from our December 4th episode. This excerpt from her novel-in-progress I Never Knew You Had a Girl takes us to Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931, so buckle up for a bumpy ride... And if

Meet Our Readers: Maggie Kast

Participants Reading #52

Meet Our Readers: Maggie Kast

Maggie Kast is the author of The Crack Between the Worlds: A Dancer's Memoir. Her stories have appeared in The Sun, Nimrod, Rosebud, and others, and essays in America, Writers Chronicle, and Image. She's currently at work on a novel, I Never Knew You Had a

Tuesday Funk #52: December 4, 2012

Readings Hopleaf

Tuesday Funk #52: December 4, 2012

Come kick off the holiday season in style with your friends at Tuesday Funk, Chicago's eclectic reading series where good writing and good beer mix! We're pleased to present the first in a series of readings featuring authors from the new 2nd Story essay anthology Briefly

Participants Reading #43

Meet Our Readers: Maggie Kast

Maggie Kast is the author of The Crack between the Worlds: a dancer's memoir of loss, faith and family. She has published fiction in The Sun, Nimrod, Rosebud, and others, and her essays have appeared in America, Image, Writer's Chronicle and others. She has received two

Tuesday Funk #43: March 6, 2012

Readings Hopleaf

Tuesday Funk #43: March 6, 2012

Find balance at our 43rd prime edition of Tuesday Funk, where we'll feature readings from John Everson, Robyn Pennacchia, Maggie Kast, Joe Weintraub, and our former Funk host Hallie Gordon Palladino! You'll also get a new Poem By Bill, not to mention your pick of dozens

Meet Our Readers: Maggie Kast

Participants Reading #32

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 from Vermont College was nourished by New

Tuesday Funk #32: March 1, 2011

Readings Hopleaf

Tuesday Funk #32: March 1, 2011

When March rolls in, can spring be far behind? Well ... in Chicago? Yes, yes, it can. So what can you do but march on down to Hopleaf and join Tuesday Funk in our continuing resolution to defy winter with great readers and great beers? The February blizzard did its best

Tuesday Funk #17: October 6, 2009

Readings Venues

Tuesday Funk #17: October 6, 2009

NEW LOCATION! This month's Tuesday Funk will take place at The Hopleaf, 5148 N. Clark St., Chicago. Please join us for the next reading on Tuesday, October 6th: RAYMOND L. BIANCHI is a native of Chicago and the child of Italian Immigrants. He lived and worked for most

Tuesday Funk #2

Tuesday Funk #2: May 6, 2008

RICHARD BENJAMIN received his MFA in fiction from Washington University. His stories have been published in Natural Bridge, The Ginkgo Tree Review, and Puerto Del Sol. He is a winner of the AWP Intro Award for Fiction. SETH CHAMBERS stories have been published in Aberrations and Alien Skin magazines and