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THREE Tuesday Funk hosts for the price of one!

Do you enjoy seeing two great Tuesday Funk hosts at every Tuesday Funk event?  Pretty cool, right?  What if I told you you could see three great Tuesday Funk hosts in one place on one evening?  Super cool! That's just the chance you'll get on Saturday,

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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&

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Co-host William Shunn appears twice this week!

Attention, Funkers!  Our longtime co-host William Shunn will be appearing next week in not one but two of Chicago's most thrilling other reading series.  They'll be on consecutive nights, no less, so please block out Tuesday and Wednesday evenings on your calendar! First comes WRITE CLUB,

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Tuesday Funk likes Gapers Block ... and vice versa!

Tuesday Funk is proud to inaugurate its association with Gapers Block at our April 2nd reading, by welcoming Andrew Huff as our new co-host! Gapers Block is a Chicago-centric online publication founded in 2003 with the intent of getting people to slow down and check out their city. An all-volunteer

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Tuesday Funk likes "Glitter & Madness"!

Hey, all you glamorous Funkers! Love rollerdisco? Love science fiction and fantasy?  Then you need to support the Kickstarter campaign for the Glitter & Madness anthology! What's this, you ask?  It's a new anthology edited by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas and John Klima, chock

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An evening of speculative fiction at Open Books, February 28th

Though it's not a Tuesday Funk reading, we'd like to invite you to a special evening of speculative fiction readings on Thursday, February 28th, at Open Books Bookstore in Chicago! It's the first in the Chicago Writers Conference's new quarterly readings series,

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Tuesday Funk likes Open Books

Tuesday Funk is delighted to be producing this Friday's Chicago Writers Conference special reading event together with Open Books, an organization that truly needs and deserves your support. Open Books, if you don't know, is a nonprofit social venture that operates an extraordinary bookstore, provides community

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Tuesday Funk likes Kegs for Kids

We at Tuesday Funk love Hopleaf and the wonderful room they let us use every month, so we're happy to spread the word about a great cause they undertake every year. No, it's not a program to give beer to minors!  It's a charitable

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Tuesday Funk likes the "Great Dysmorphia" release party

Our friend and former Funker, Stephen Markley, author of Publish This Book, will be reading from his new release The Great Dysmorphia: An Epistemological View of Ingesting Hallucinogenic Mushrooms at the 2012 Republican Presidential Debate at Black Rock on August 23. Come for the fun, the funnies, the drinks, and

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Hopleaf Bar is a star!

Tuesday Funk is eternally grateful to Hopleaf Bar for giving us such an atmospheric and welcoming home every month.  In return, we'd like to congratulate Michael Roper not just on Hopleaf's recent beautiful expansion, but also on its appearance earlier this month on Food Network'

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Tuesday Funk likes 8 x 8

A few weeks ago, Andrew Huff of Gapers Block issued a fascinating challenge to Tuesday Funk co-host William Shunn: to take a piece of original poster art by Chad Kouri and produce a piece of writing of between 1,500 and 2,500 words to accompany it. The resulting art/

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Less than 36 hours to help the Chicago Writers Conference

You may be sick of hearing about this, Funkers, but you have less than 36 hours left to help fund the Kickstarter campaign for this September's Chicago Writers Conference.  They still have more than $1,500 to raise to meet their funding goal. We've told you

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Tuesday Funk congratulates Alex Shakar!

Tuesday Funk sends its heartiest congratulations to Chicago's own Alex Shakar, whose novel Luminarium was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction this past Friday evening! Alex will be joining us on June 5th to read from Luminarium, an evening you won't want to

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The Chicago Writers Conference REALLY needs your help

Hi, Funkers.  We're not going to make another long pitch here.  We're just going to note that, if you're a writer in Chicago, you need the Chicago Writers Conference.  And the Chicago Writers Conference needs you back. Only five days remain in their Kickstarter

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Tuesday Funk likes the Chicago Writers Conference!

Chicago is getting its own down-home writers conference!  The Chicago Writers Conference will take place September 14-16 at Tribune Tower in beautiful downtown Chicago.  Speakers and presenters include Chuck Sambuchino, Robert K. Elder, and Cinnamon Cooper, while special readings will be staged by both Essay Fiesta and your very own

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Tuesday Funk likes Ian Belknap

Yearning for a fix of that good funny shit this weekend, Funkers?  You know, a taste to tide you over until our amazing 42nd episode next Tuesday?  You couldn't do any better than to check out Ian Belknap tomorrow night in his solo show Uncle Dad Is Ripshit,

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Tuesday Funk likes The Writers Workspace

Hey, Chicago writers!  Did you start the new year with a resolution to get going on that novel of yours, or on that major article?  Do you need a quiet place to write as part of your freelance work, or do you just need to get out of the house

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Tuesday Funk likes the Skull and Spine Workshop

Attention, aspiring writers!  We interrupt this Christmas Eve to bring you an important message about skulls and spines. No, it's not The Nightmare Before Christmas.  It's the Skull & Spine Workshop, taught by two-time Tuesday Funk reader Suzanne Clores.  It takes place in Evanston on Sunday

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William Shunn to read at Essay Fiesta on Monday

We just want to give you a quick heads-up that your Tuesday Funk co-host William Shunn will be appearing as part of the Essay Fiesta reading series at The Book Cellar in Lincoln Square this coming Monday, December 19th, at 7:00 pm. It'll be Bill's

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Still time to bid on Bill's memoir and help a worthy cause!

Hey, Funkers, there's still time to bid in the auction we told you about yesterday afternoon.  You have a little over eight hours left to get a bid in if you want to be one of the first by far to own a physical copy of my memoir

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Bid on Bill's memoir and help a worthy cause!

Hi, generous Tuesday Funk fans!  You may not be familiar with the name Terri Windling, but she is a major figure in the fantasy publishing world, as an author, illustrator, and especially editor.  Health and legal issues have drained the Terri and her family of all financial resources, so the

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Tuesday Funk likes Seamus Arthur Witt

Tuesday Funk is pleased to announce the announcement by co-host Sara Ross Witt that she and Andrew Witt have welcomed Seamus Arthur Witt into this world.  Seamus was born on November 17, and weighed in at 7 lbs 5 oz.  All involved are doing well, though Seamus has sent us

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Fiction: "Stand Up"

A brand-new short story by your Tuesday Funk co-host William Shunn, "Stand Up," is available now at the group blog This May Get Awkward: "Stand Up" TMGA is curated by the estimable JD Adamski, an MVP of Tuesday Funk, and you should check it out on

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Tuesday Funk likes The Interview Show

Chicago, if you want to kick off your weekend in an appropriately heady way, might we suggest getting yourself down to The Hideout for December's edition of The Interview Show?  Every month, host Mark Bazer welcomes a cross-section of fascinating guests, which tonight includes Alex Shakar, a Writers

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Tuesday Funk likes Fake Month at the Museum

If you're like us, you've probably dreamed of running off to live in a natural history museum, like the kids in From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.  Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry has been letting one lucky person do exactly