Posted in Day to day on April 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Just been informed that my story ‘The Sleeping Shags,’ which was nominated for a StorySouth Million Writer’s Award, has been chosen as a Notable Story for the 2007 StorySouth Award. They pared the list down from literally hundreds of stories to double digits now. It is quite an honor. Being nominated was fantastic. I’ll keep you [...]
Posted in Day to day on April 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
On Saturday friends and great writers gathered at The Book Cellar in Chicago’s Lincoln Square for what might be the last RAGAD reading for sometime. All came to celebrate the release of Ben Tanzer’s story, “What We Thought We Knew,” but folks were treated to much more. Having said this many times over the weekend, but [...]
Posted in Day to day on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
It is finally upon us!
Saturday, April 25th
The Book Cellar
4736 N. Lincoln Ave
Chicago, IL
7 PM
FREE
Boozing: stories about alcohol, a party to release RAGAD #6, which features the a story called ‘What We Thought We Knew’ by Chicago writer Ben Tanzer. Featuring readings by Tanzer, Amy Guth (Three Fallen Women), Jill Summers, and Pittsburgh writer Jason Jordan. [...]
Posted in Books, Chi, Friends, RAGAD, Readings, Writings on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
RAGAD #6 Release Reading
Saturday, April 26th
7 PM
The Book Cellar
4736 N Lincoln Ave
Chicago, IL
Featuring readings by Ben Tanzer, Jason Jordan, Amy Guth, and Jill Summers. Editor Nick Ostdick will read and host.
This, folks, is going to be awesome. Tanzer’s story ‘What We Thought We Knew’ is one of the best RAGAD has put forth. All the [...]
Posted in Day to day on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
RAGAD #6 Release Reading
Saturday, April 26th
7 PM
The Book Cellar
4736 N Lincoln Ave
Chicago, IL
Featuring readings by Ben Tanzer, Jason Jordan, Amy Guth, and Jill Summers. Editor Nick Ostdick will read and host.
This, folks, is going to be awesome. Tanzer’s story ‘What We Thought We Knew’ is one of the best RAGAD has put forth. All the [...]
Posted in Day to day on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »
The illustrious Jason Pettus of The Chicago Center for Literature and Photographyrecently was gracious enough with his time to interview me for his site’s podcast. Many writers whom I love and admire have participated in his podcasts in the past, folks like Ben Tanzer and Lizzy Crane. As such, I was flattered by Jason’s offer, [...]
Posted in 50 Word Story Segment, Chi, Friends, RAGAD, Readings, Writings on April 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Our third installment of this series is quite exciting. First off, because I can’t believe the writers I pitch these to actually do them (thank you! so much to all of them). Secondly, because this time we feature Ben Tazner, author of the novel Lucky Man, as well as ‘What We Thought We Knew,’ a [...]
Posted in Day to day on April 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Taken from Jonathan Messinger’s blog at Time Out Chicago, this little blurb about being stuck on a subway seemed to resonate with me somehow. It reminded me of that REM video where there is a giant traffic jam and people just get out and walk, all of them, together, in one large symbol of weird [...]
Posted in Day to day on April 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve just been notified that I’ll be sitting on two panels at Plicrow Litfest, a new festival of small press and indie lit taking place Chicago in May. The whole shindig was created by the fantastic Amy Guth, who will be reading with us at the end April for the release of RAGAD # 6.
The [...]
Posted in Day to day on April 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ole’ friend Ben Tanzer has some lovely things to say about Sunbeams over on his blog. He put up a picture of the book cover, crafted a fine little blurb, really gave us the star treatment. The book has been out for, well, this year will be three years since the release. I have to say [...]
