Reading #170 - Tuesday Funk

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Reading #170

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Benjamin Goluboff

Debriefings Reading #170

May 2026 Debrief

We don't book Tuesday Funk with themes in mind, but they often emerge organically. At the 170th edition of Chicago's favorite eclectic reading series on May 5, 2026, the theme the theme that emerged was "identity." Vince Omni got us started with a story

Deborah Shapiro

Participants Reading #170

Meet the Readers: Deborah Shapiro

Deborah Shapiro is the author of the novels The Sun in Your Eyes (a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice), The Summer Demands, and Consolation. Her latest book is Watching the Detective. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Sight

Victoria Montalbano

Participants Reading #170

Meet the Readers: Victoria Montalbano

Victoria Montalbano is an actor, comedian and recovering improvisor. She is teaming up with Story Sessions to host The Hyperfixation Show on May 24, a storytelling show, open mic, and fundraiser all about the things we're obsessed with. She will spend the Summer touring her award-winning one-person-shows across

Benjamin Goluboff

Participants Reading #170

Meet the Readers: Benjamin Goluboff

Benjamin Goluboff is the author, most recently, of Moe Asch: A Speculative Life in Verse, and Other Poems (Kelsay Books). Goluboff teaches at Lake Forest College and lives in Chicago. Some of his work can be read at lakeforest.edu/academics/faculty/goluboff/. Join Ben and our other fantastic readers

Participants Reading #170

Meet the Readers: Vince Omni

Vince Omni is author of 1989, winner of the CRAFT 2025 Novelette Print Prize. Other awards include a PEN/Dau Short Story Prize, the Jesmyn Ward Prize in Fiction, and the Margaret Walker Memorial Prize in Creative Writing. His writing has appeared in the Michigan Quarterly Review, The Best Debut

Participants Reading #170

Meet the Readers: Kate Lechler

Kate Lechler’s work has appeared in Shimmer Magazine, PodCastle, Fireside Fiction, Kaleidotrope, and The Deadlands, among other places. Kate lives in Logan Square with their good dog Charlie and teaches first-year writing for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. When they are not working on a novel

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Readings Reading #170

Tuesday Funk #170: May 5, 2026

No sign of JT, but it's gonna be May — and Chicago's favorite eclectic monthly reading series returns to the upstairs lounge at Hopleaf on May 5! Join us as we feature readings by Benjamin Goluboff, Kate Lechler, Victoria Montalbano, Vincent Omni, and Deborah Shapiro! Admission to