Wonder what an actual commander-in-chief test might look like? Have a look at the piece I put together for the Per­spec­tive sec­tion of yesterday’s Chicago Tribune.

And here’s another piece (PDF) I helped put together for last weekend’s edition.

A very, very short inter­view I con­ducted with Charles Simic is in this month’s (i.e. April’s) Chicago Mag­a­zine. Check it out…

For more on Simic see here and here and here.

My friend Ben Cal­houn did a nice NPR story on Jere­miah Wright this last week­end. Listen to it here.

Songs of Insur­gency, a new book of short sto­ries by my friend and col­league Spencer Dew, is now out with Vagabond Press. Some of Spencer’s sto­ries are avail­able online here and you can order the book via SPD or Amazon.