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Reading #61

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Video: Lania Knight walks us through the fire

At our September 3rd edition of Tuesday Funk, Lania Knight brought us a powerful and evocative recounting of childbirth that sounded quite a lot like this... And if you liked that, you won't want to miss our next event, which takes place Tuesday, November 5, 2013, and will

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Video: Aleksandar Hemon brings that old John Wayne joke to life

At our September 3rd edition of Tuesday Funk, Aleksandar Hemon read us a section from his work-in-progress "The Making of Zombie Wars," and it sounded a little like this... And if you liked that, you won't want to miss our next event, which takes place Tuesday,

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Video: William Shunn, at long last, spills the beans

At our September 3rd edition of Tuesday Funk, co-host William Shunn brought us what will probably have to be the final installment of his many missionary reminiscences, at long last spilling the beans about why he can't travel to Canada... And if you enjoyed that, please join Bill

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Video: Norm Doucet was born a poor white child...

At our September 3rd edition of Tuesday Funk, Norm Doucet brought us a charming and thought-provoking remembrance of childhood and military service, and it went just a bit like this... And if you enjoyed that, please join us at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, October 1st, 2013, upstairs at Hopleaf,

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Video: Virginia Konchan escapes "The Perfect Life"

At our September 3rd edition of Tuesday Funk, Virginia Konchan brought us a powerful tale of faith, self-doubt, and violence, and it sounded a little like this... And if you enjoyed that, please join us at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, October 1st, 2013, upstairs at Hopleaf, for an evening

Video: William Shunn returns to the old neighborhood

At our September 3rd edition of Tuesday Funk, co-host William Shunn read still another poem about his dog, this time in a valiant attempt to make up for that last poem... And if you enjoyed that, please join us at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, October 1st, 2013, upstairs at

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Video: Andrew Huff recounts August in haiku

At our September 3rd edition of Tuesday Funk, co-host Andrew Huff delivered another fistful of his signature topical haiku: Fifty years later King's dream is still unfulfilled. Does freedom yet ring? Here's to long weekends! Reminding us that life is not just about work. Finally arrived:

Aleksandar Hemon reads from his work-in-progress at Tuesday Funk #61

Debriefings Reading #61

September debriefing

It was a packed house for this week's edition of Tuesday Funk at Hopleaf. If you weren't able to be there, here's what our wonderful and fortunate audience saw. We kicked things off with Virginia Konchan, who navigated a tricky tale of religious faith

Tuesday Funk #61: September 3, 2013

Reminder: Tuesday Funk #61 is tonight!

Don't forget—tonight is Tuesday Funk's 61st episode, featuring Aleksandar Hemon, Virginia Konchan, Lania Knight, Norman Doucet, and William Shunn. Don't miss it! Our readings take place at Hopleaf Bar, 5148 N. Clark St. in Chicago. We get started promptly at 7:30 pm

Aleksandar Hemon

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Meet Our Readers: Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, as well as The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man, Love and Obstacles and The Book of My Lives. He has worked as a waiter, canvasser,

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Meet Our Readers: Norman Doucet

Norman Doucet hails from the den of the southern rebellion, Charleston, South Carolina. Influenced by the duality that exists there, he made some interesting decisions, starting with attending the college—founded after a slave revolt—which also has the dubious distinction of producing the two cadets who fired the first

WordPerfect Developer Point-and-Shoot Program

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Meet Our Readers: William Shunn

William Shunn began his professional software development career at WordPerfect in 1991, where he wrote 80x86 assembly language code and helped kill the DOS version of the venerable word processor. Ironically, he still uses WordPerfect for most of his prose writing, which includes more than thirty works of short fiction.

Meet Our Readers: Lania Knight

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Meet Our Readers: Lania Knight

Lania Knight's first book, Three Cubic Feet, is a 2012 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Debut Fiction. Her work has been published or will appear soon in Fourth Genre, New Stories from the Midwest, The Missouri Review, Literary Mama, PANK, Midwestern Gothic, Jabberwock Review, and elsewhere. She lives

Meet Our Readers: Virginia Konchan

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Meet Our Readers: Virginia Konchan

Virginia Konchan's poems have appeared in Best New Poets, The Believer, The New Yorker, and The New Republic, her criticism in Quarterly Conversation, Barzakh Magazine, and Boston Review, and her fiction in StoryQuarterly and Joyland, among other places. Co-founder of Matter, a journal of poetry and political commentary,

Tuesday Funk #61: September 3, 2013

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Tuesday Funk #61: September 3, 2013

Brace yourself, because do we have an amazing Tuesday Funk lined up for you! For our 61st episode, we've put together a roster that includes MacArthur Fellowship winner Aleksandar Hemon, whose recent The Book of My Lives has been garnering acclaim around the world. As if that'