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Tonight In Literary Chicago

Tonight in our dear literary Chicago: Earlier in the evening, over at Spertus Institute, Danya Ruttenberg discusses Yentl’s Revenge at 5:30pm. 610 S. Michigan. Tickets $10-20. At 6pm, yours truly will be in the loop at the Aleksander Hemon and Jacob Weisberg discussion, The Future of The Book, at the Preston Bradley Hall of the... Read more »

Aleksander Hemon's Chicago

Last weekend, the Wall Street Journal ran a piece about Aleksandar Hemon, a writer who, while visiting a friend in the Ukranian Village in 1992, extended his stay in Chicago indefinitely after war erupted in his native Sarajevo. Hemon learned to write in English and decided to stay in Chicago (I say that as if... Read more »