Writing Chicago: New Fiction Set in Chicago features Barry Pearce (The Plan of Chicago: A City in Stories), Rajesh C. Oza, (Double Play on the Red Line), and Marvin Tate (4th Shift) in conversation with Albert DeGenova (After Hours Press).  Presented in partnership with the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. Barry Pearce is the author of The Plan…  read more

Author and theatre artist Caro Macon Fleischer's genre-bending novel, A Play About a Curse, is, at heart, a literary horror novel. The heroine, after all, propels us into action with a curse on her drama-school mentor. But the story is framed like a three-act play, complete with blocking and stage directions, all performed in the midst of…  read more