Dead Men Speaking
6 April 2012 | Hidden City Daily
With the help of the New York Times, thinking about existential doubt, preservation, and Chicago’s bold vision for its future
Posts tagged with “Literature”
Onto the Author Salon
8 February 2012
The process so far has proven enormously useful in helping me to conceptualize the novel and talk about it coherently.
Why the City is Literature, and Vice Versa
7 February 2012
“But it might also be that while you were riding along like that, you heard or saw something beautiful, gay, or sad, something you will never forget.”
Net Zero
6 July 2011
Isn’t this, too, the ennui of urban America? Yes, amid the urban resurgence—there is a Mexican resurgence too, more on that below—most old American cities are paralyzed by economic, political, and fiscal forces outside their control.
WOW!
23 May 2011
This Thursday, May 26, I’ll be at Drexel University’s literary fest, “Week of Writing,” participating in a panel discussion, “Making History,” with Paula Cohen, Jay Kirk, and Buzz Bissinger.