My review of Camp­bell McGrath’s Seven Note­books appears in the summer issue of Book­fo­rum. Check it out…

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…

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.