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Essays Videos Memoir Reading #51 Zemaitis Mary

Video: Mary Zemaitis was a teenage "Jesus Freak"

  • William Shunn

William Shunn

29 Nov 2012
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At our November 6th edition of Tuesday Funk, Mary Zemaitis bravely confessed her past as a teenage "Jesus Freak," and it sounded a little like this...

And if you enjoyed that, please join us at 7:30 pm on December 4th, upstairs at Hopleaf, for an evening with Julia Borcherts, Jodi Eichelberger, Maggie Kast, Stephen Markley, and Andrew Reilly.  See you there!

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Jitesh Jaggi

Meet the Readers: Jitesh Jaggi

Jitesh Jaggi is a dancer and poet from India. He ended his career in Finance one day when he lost all his data that he forgot to save on an Excel sheet and realized that he just didn't care. That tipping point led him to becoming a storyteller
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Chef/percussionist/writer Alan Lake

Meet the Readers: Alan Lake

Chef/percussionist/writer/reprobate and lover of all things beautiful & delicious, Chef Alan Lake's culinary career includes East Bank Club in Chicago; Sunset Marquis in W. Hollywood; Izakaya Hiwatta in Ichinomia Japan and legendary nightclub Purpur in Zurich, Switzerland. Working around the world for over four decades,
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Meet the Readers: JH Palmer

J.H. Palmer is a Gapers Block alumna. She has performed at numerous storytelling venues in Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis, and New York City, and she produced a nonfiction literary series called That’s All She Wrote from 2012 to 2017. Her work has appeared in Hypertext Review, Chicago Story Press,
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