A memo to all inter­ested par­ties: I’ll be read­ing this Sunday, May 25, at The Charleston Bar in Buck­town (2076 N. Hoyne, to be precise).

The read­ing, which is hap­pen­ing under the aus­pices of both the Sunday Salon Chicago series and the Pil­crow Lit­er­ary Fes­ti­val, fea­tures fic­tion edi­tors from Chicago lit­er­ary mag­a­zines read­ing their own work. The other writer-​editors on the card are Mike Zapata of Make, Simon A. Smith of Bruiser Review, and Michael Newirth of Fifth Wednes­day Journal.

I’ll be read­ing a bit from my novel-in-progress. The read­ing starts at 7:30pm and shouldn’t last much past 9pm. If you’re in town and avail­able, come out for the read­ing and I’ll buy you a beer…

Erika Staiti at saidwhatwesaid.com has put together a for­bid­dingly com­pre­hen­sive record–236 pages at last count–of the online con­ver­sa­tions that took place in the wake of the “Numbers Trouble” debate pub­lished in Chicago Review 52:2/3. Follow this link for the whole mas­sive PDF, or click here for Staiti’s Editor’s State­ment and Appendices.

I know: the last thing you need is another excuse to spend more time on the inter­net. But trust me on this one. Wyatt Mason, one of the very best prac­ti­cal crit­ics work­ing today, has started a blog at Harper’s called Sen­tences, and it’s going to be good. Here’s how Mason describes the blog’s focus:

Appear­ing sev­eral times a week, Sen­tences will not patrol the pub­lish­ing indus­try, nor other lit­er­ary blogs. Rather, it will be devoted, for the most part, to things I’ve been read­ing lately, new and old, and the ideas such read­ing stimulates.

Par­tic­u­lar atten­tion will be paid to the par­tic­u­lars of writ­ing, the pieces and parts upon which the enter­prise depends for its effects. Gen­eral ques­tions, too, about lit­er­ary endeavor, will crop up, ques­tions I’ll try to address in a useful way. My aim is to make the posts a con­tin­u­a­tion, if in a dif­fer­ent form, of the writ­ing that I’ve been doing in Harper’s and else­where for the past few years.

Mason’s pro­file page at Harper’s has links to much of his pre­vi­ous work. If you don’t know it, check it out.