Is anybody following Kathleen Rooney’s situation? I felt legitimately shaken up earlier this week when I found out Kathleen (I…
Shuck by Daniel Allen Cox
The weekend before last, I impulsively purchased Daniel Allen Cox’s Shuck at Women and Children First, Chicago’s feminist bookstore and…
Literary Death Match Chicago Episode 4
Last night I went to Opium Literary Death Match Chicago, Episode 4. Opium’s death matches are one of my favorite…
You Still Have One More Day…
…to submit writing to be considered for Annalemma’s “Holiday in Cambodia” anthology. The deadline is tomorrow, January 15th. This anthology…
Why I Wear Makeup to Readings
I go glam for all my readings. For my first, I wore pink, gold and green eye makeup, painted my…
Vocabulary Lesson
(This post was adapted from a piece developed for “The Rec Room Reads the Dictionary Aloud to You,” an installment…
Nerds Texting
December 24, 2009: Me: Just bought “Prisoner of Love” by Jean Genet at barbaras books at ohaire airport b/c it…
I like depressing Christmas songs…
…Songs about loneliness. Heartbreak. Folks down on their luck. Forgotten. Addicted. Only… on Christmas! One of my favorite Christmas albums…
Seven Stories I Think More People Should Read
…Because what the internet totally needs is another year-end list. I was thinking about some of the online writing from…
Toulouse-Lautrec’s Au Moulin Rouge
One of my favorite paintings is Au Moulin Rouge by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It lives here in Chicago, at the…