Joe O'Sullivan is a retired cop and former blogger. He has one published essay, and the former ChicagoNow blog Arresting Tales to his credit. He enjoys making stuff up for family and friends, and is fascinated by oddballs, alligators, and...  read

Laura Adamczyk was born and raised and still lives in Illinois. Her writing has won awards from the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation of Chicago and has appeared in the Chicago Reader, Ninth Letter, PANK, Passages North, The Rumpus,...  read

Wendy McClure is the author of several books, including The Wilder Life: My Adventures of the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie. The first novel in her kids' series, Wanderville, came out in January and the second book...  read

Naomi Buck Palagi grew up in the woods of Kentucky. She works and lives in NW Indiana with her husband and two lively little kids, but once upon a time lived down the street from Hopleaf. She has work published...  read

Get down and get funky at a special Mardi Gras edition of Tuesday Funk in March. While we won't have any floats, we will have readings by Wendy McClure, Joe O'Sullivan, Naomi Buck Palagi, Laura Adamczyk and Eden Robins. OK,...  read

Co-host Andrew Huff talked tech in his patented topical haiku at the February 7 edition of Tuesday Funk. Snow, snow, snow, snow, snow. Snow, snow, snow, snow, snow, snow, snow. Sweet lord, no more snow. Remember dial-up? Ten weird seconds...  read

As co-host Andrew Huff said in this poignant haiku: Snow, snow, snow, snow, snow, Snow, snow, snow, snow, snow, snow, snow. Sweet lord, no more snow. Surprise! It snowed. But that didn't keep our intrepid literature and beer lovers away...  read

Don't forget--tonight is Tuesday Funk's 66th episode, featuring Mare Swallow, Cameron McGill, Tom Underberg, Chuck Sudo, and Amelia Beamer! We're like the birds returning to the trees... the mucky slush flooding the streets... the first hint of spring thaw bringing...  read