Scott Smith works in local government and lives on the South Side with his wife and daughter. He hosts and produces the live lit show The Frunchroom, featuring stories of, by, and about the many neighborhoods, viewpoints, and people on...  read

Elizabeth Joy Levinson is an accidental high school biology teacher in Chicago. She is supposed to be an English teacher, but if she's being honest, she's just as happy discussing insects as she is poetry. Her work has appeared in...  read

Eiren Caffal is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion, Guernica, The LA Review of Books, Al Jazeera, and the anthology Elementals. She has received a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a...  read

Chicago's favorite eclectic reading series makes its triumphant monthly return! Join us in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf on Tuesday, Aug. 5 for readings by Dan Baron, Eiren Caffall, Elizabeth Joy Levinson, Courtney Justus, and Scott Smith!RSVP on Facebook, and...  read

It was downright hot on the first of July, but we stayed nice and cool in the upstairs lounge of Hopleaf, ready for the 160th edition of Tuesday Funk! Victoria Montalbano got things started with a funny story about being...  read