It feels like this summer has been flying by! Fortunately we have the rhythm of Tuesday Funk to help mark the time. Our show August 5 was standing room only, demonstrating just how much Chicago loves live lit! Courtney Justus...  read

Dan Baron is a storyteller and a communications professional who writes about social issues for nonprofits, universities, and other organizations. He has an identical twin, but for some reason insists that there’s nobody like him. He’s also a dad, a...  read

Courtney Justus was born in Houston, Texas, raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and now lives in Chicago. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she received the Jason Alexander Bradford Award. She...  read

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