Debriefings Reading #92 April debriefing What a night! Drama, intrigue, and baseball... the trifecta for any good reading. Robert Loerzel started it off with a fascinating historical essay about the Cubs' one-time short-lived nickname "Microbes." Jessi DiBartolomeo followed with some more historical insight - this time about cemeteries in Chicago and how
Poetry Haiku by Andrew New Haiku for April The April 5 edition of Tuesday Funk included topical haiku by co-host Andrew Huff as varied as the weather. Can we all survive the political discourse now till November? Must we endure insults, stunts and posturing for the next eight months? This election will make Thanksgiving dinner more awkward than
Reading #92 Reminder: Tuesday Funk #92 is tonight! It'll be pretty much the best thing you can do on a Tuesday, and you know it. This month we've got the likes of Robert Loerzel, Jessi DiBartolomeo, James Finn Garner, Lily Be, and Joe Meno. Andrew Huff and Eden Robins are, as ever, your diligent
Participants Reading #92 Meet Our Readers: Joe Meno Joe Meno is a fiction writer who lives in Chicago. He is the winner of the Nelson Algren Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Great Lakes Book Award, and a finalist for the Story Prize. The bestselling author of seven novels including Hairstyles of the Damned and The Boy Detective Fails,
Participants Reading #92 Meet Our Readers: Jessi DiBartolomeo Jessi DiBartolomeo hails from the suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona, which is just as bad as it sounds. She packed her car with her belongings and cat and made the drive to Chicago in the miserably humid summer of 2011 and has been dicking around in the Midwest ever since. She
Participants Reading #92 Meet Our Readers: Lily Be Lily Be is a momma, a nanny, and storyteller. She's a wise Mexican badass from Humboldt Park, Chicago. You can hear her tells stories everywhere and anywhere. Lily is a Moth GrandSLAM champion and the host and producer of her own storytelling show, The Stoop. A bio does
Participants Reading #92 Meet Our Readers: Robert Loerzel Robert Loerzel is a freelance journalist and photographer in Chicago. His historical nonfiction book Alchemy of Bones: Chicago's Luetgert Murder Case of 1897 was published in 2003 by the University of Illinois Press. His reporting and writing have appeared in many publications, including the Tribune, the Reader, Chicago
Participants Reading #92 Meet Our Readers: James Finn Garner James Finn Garner is the author of the award-winning clown noir mystery series, Rex Koko, Private Clown, as well as the Politically Correct Bedtime Stories trilogy. A former columnist for Chicago Magazine, he has also read extensively at Chicago's "live lit" events. During the season, he
Reading #92 Garner James Finn Tuesday Funk #92 - April 5, 2016 Are you ready for spring? Get ready for warmer weather with some eclectic live lit at Tuesday Funk on April 5. Join us in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf for readings by Robert Loerzel, Jessi DiBartolomeo, James Finn Garner, Lily Be and Joe Meno! Andrew Huff and Eden Robins are