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Upcoming Events

VIRTUAL EVENT: Courttia Newland, Rivers Solomon, Denise Hamilton – Politics & Prose

4/11/21, 3:00pm

PLEASE NOTE: All of our virtual events are listed in Eastern Time (ET). Courttia Newland, author of A River Called Time, and Rivers Solomon, author of Sorrowland, discuss their new works, in an event moderated by Denise Hamilton. Please register for this Zoom event via Eventbrite.

VIRTUAL EVENT: Johanny Vázquez Paz, Rigoberto González – American Writers Museum (Chicago, IL)

4/15/21, 7:30pm

PLEASE NOTE: All of our virtual events are listed in Eastern Time (ET). Acclaimed writers Rigoberto González and Johanny Vázquez Paz read their work and discuss poetry and belonging in this installment of the Jean M. and John W. Rowe Program Series. González, the award-winning fiction, nonfiction, poetry and bilingual children’s book author, called Vázquez Paz’s collection I Offer My […]

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Quarantine Q&A: Craig Finn

Craig Finn talks to Johnny about coffee addiction, songwriting, and The Hold Steady’s new album.

“Tar” by Scott Kaiser

10:00 a.m.

“Yeah, yeah, yeah! Ummm, this will work . . . I’m sure I can quit this time,” muttered Steve under his quickening breath while rapidly striking his index finger against the table before him.

“Here come the temple spasms, Steve . . .”

“The stain will stay.” by Bobbi Lurie

I spill coffee on the bed. The white quilt is stained.

How can I fix this? I tiptoe up the stairs to their kitchen, soak a wad of paper towels in the sink. I go back down the stairs, rub the paper towels into the stain. I scrub and scrub. The sun is rising; the stain is not. I lay back down on the bed. Hopelessness . . .