White Boys Can Write

Once again, let us honor National Short Story Month–this time with five fine and recent story collections by the endangered species, the White Male Writer. WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT MEN, by Michael Burke AS IF WE WERE PREY, by Michael Delp THE WORLD OF A FEW MINUTES AGO, by Jack Driscoll CARRY EACH HIS BURDEN, by James Goertel […]

Summer in the Literary City

Getting up into the nineties here in Chicago, the kind of hot and humid summer days the city is known for. As many of us have to head to work on a sticky Monday morning, our shirts clinging to our backs from the heat, the air heavy in our lungs, it helps to look back […]