Reading #34 - Tuesday Funk

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Reading #34

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Video: Aldo Vesper lands a whopper

As we count down to our August reading, we're bringing you some classic performances from Tuesday Funks past. In this clip from May, Paul McComas channels his character Aldo Vesper to bring us a real big fish story. (Or is that reel?)

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Video: Bits and pieces from Paul McComas

Your friends here at Tuesday Funk are taking it easy during the month of July, so we thought we'd fill in that giant Funk-shaped hole in your heart with some more video performances from the archives. Back in May, we were fortunate enough to have Mr. Paul McComas

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Video: Tim W. Brown travels through time

We're so excited about our upcoming "Science Fiction Sextuple Feature" that we want to put you in the mood with yet another video scavenged from a recent Tuesday Funk episode. When Tim W. Brown joined us at our podium back in May, he brought us an

Video: Infidel dog

A monthly feature of our Tuesday Funk readings is the Poem By Bill, which will be back on June 21st as part of our special "Science Fiction Sextuple Feature" edition. Fear not, though—the poem this time will be much shorter than the one from our May 3rd

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Tuesday Funk likes Wellspring organizer Brad Beaulieu

Our upcoming special edition of Tuesday Funk, the "Science Fiction Sextuple Feature," features six attendees of the inaugural Wellspring Workshop, an intensive workshop for speculative fiction novelists taking place in Lake Geneva over the course of the next week. And Wellspring would not have been possible without the

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Video: Brooke Wonders brings you a lulu of a Cthulhu tale

C'thool who? You may be forgiven if you're not familiar with the most infamous of H.P. Lovecraft's Great Old Ones, but we'll never forgive you if you can't spare ten minutes and forty-seven seconds for this short Cthulhu story

Debriefings Videos

May debriefing

We're sounding like a broken record at this point, but if you missed Tuesday Funk #34 last night, you definitely missed our best reading yet. Want to hear about it? Okay, fine. Our delighted audience last night heard Scott Smith recount his plan to indoctrinate his newborn daughter

Reminder: Tuesday Funk #34 is tonight!

Reminder: Tuesday Funk #34 is tonight!

Reach for the sky, pardner! No, wait, put your hands down! We meant that in an entirely metaphorical and inspirational sense, which is why we're bringing you the entirely inspirational and not at all metaphorical lineup of talent at tonight's edition of Tuesday Funk. That'

Meet Our Readers: Paul McComas

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Meet Our Readers: Paul McComas

Paul McComas is the author of four critically acclaimed books—two novels, Planet of the Dates (currently in development as a Hollywood feature) and Unplugged, and the short-story collections Unforgettable: Harrowing Futures, Horrors, and (Dark) Humor and Twenty Questions (now in its third printing)—as well as the editor of

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Meet Our Readers: Tim W. Brown

Tim W. Brown was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois. In 1983 he graduated summa cum laude from Northern Illinois University with a degree in American studies. He is the author of four novels, Deconstruction Acres (1997), Left of the Loop (2001), Walking Man (2008), and Second Acts (2010), which

Meet Our Readers: Bradley P. Beaulieu

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Meet Our Readers: Bradley P. Beaulieu

Bradley P. Beaulieu is the author of The Winds of Khalakovo, the first of three planned books in "The Lays of Anuskaya" series. In addition to being an L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Award winner, Brad's stories have appeared in various other publications, including

Meet Our Readers: Brooke Wonders

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Meet Our Readers: Brooke Wonders

Brooke Wonders is a Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she studies trauma theory and nonfiction, while secretly writing dark fantasy on the side. This summer she will be attending the storied Clarion Writers' Workshop in San Diego on a partial scholarship. Ask her

Meet Our Readers: Scott Smith

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Meet Our Readers: Scott Smith

Scott Smith has two jobs, at present. The one he gets paid for in dollars involves digital strategy at Chicago magazine. The one he gets paid for in experience and graying hair involves parenting his daughter Abigail with his wife Erin. The limited time he has left in the day

Tuesday Funk #34: May 3, 2011

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Tuesday Funk #34: May 3, 2011

Ah, spring! When birds begin to sing, brooks to babble, books to flit amorously in dappled glens ... and the forecasts call for snow?! But, come sun, rain, or snow, Tuesday Funk will bring you a veritable forest of talent in May, from the likes of Paul McComas, Tim W. Brown,