Upcoming Readings

By Christopher Hudgens

Schedule

Tuesday March 4th, 2008, 7pm

Reader: Ben Tanzer
After working for many years on stage and screen Ben Tanzer now lives in Chicago where he tends to his vineyards, shoots pool, dabbles in social work, compulsively watches High School Musical 2, and spends all sorts of quality time with his lovely wife and young sons. Ben is a staff writer for Wonka Vision magazine and has had work published in a variety of other magazines and journals including Opium, THE2NDHAND, Monkey Bicycle, The Truth Magazine, Thieves Jargon, decomP, Cake Train, Chicago Parent, Abroad View, Zygote in my Coffee, RAGAD, and 20dissidents. He also once regularly published work in several excellent, though now defunct magazines, including Punk Planet and Clamor, though he doesn’t feel remotely responsible for their demise.
Ben’s debut novel Lucky Man was published in 2007 by Manx Media - www.manxmedia.com/luckyman.htm - and was described by Time Out Chicago as “honest and often hilarious” and Willamette Weekly as “like a Rubik’s cube on acid.”

Tuesday April 1st, 2008, 7pm

Reader: Amina Cain
Amina Cain is the author of I Go To Some Hollow, a collection of stories that will be published by Les Figues Press in January of 2009. Her work has appeared in journals such as 3rd bed, Denver Quarterly, Spinning Jenny, the2ndhand, Sidebrow, and La Petite Zine, and is forthcoming in the second volume (F-K) of the Encyclopedia Project, as well as in the anthology Wreckage of Reason: Contemporary XXperimental Prose by Women Writers. She co-curates, along with Jennifer Karmin, the Red Rover reading series, and teaches in the English department at Columbia College.

Tuesday May 6th, 2008, 7pm

Reader: James Lower
Chances are, you’ve never heard of James Lower, but, according to his dad, he’s actually pretty cool. When not teaching creative writing to 4th graders or hypothesizing about which side of the poverty line his MFA will lead him to, he writes fiction and creative nonfiction of variable lengths. His work has appeared in various online and print publications including the Story Week Reader, Reservoir magazine, and the Santa Clara Review. He also co-publishes the Atlanta-based APlusPlus magazine with four other members of Morningside Elementary’s storied class of ‘92. He is currently at work on his debut story collection as well as a memoir, Maybe the Waves. He hopes it will become increasingly strange that you haven’t read his work in the coming decade.

All readings will be held at the Green Lantern located at 1511 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL

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