Tag: Chicago
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Blog relay: Talking Jerry Darn for “About a Character”
This is part of a blog relay to which the Great Lakes Review editor Rob Jackson invited me to participate in. Rob was invited by Don DeGrazia, author of “American Skin” and my thesis advisor when I earned an MFA at Columbia College Chicago. Basically, it’s a chain of writers all answering the same questions…
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Jerry Darn Nation in the Chicago Reader
Here’s my contribution to the 2010 Chicago Reader Pure Fiction issue: First paragraphs: This is how my drinking binge begins. Not with booze—not yet—but in my girlfriend’s bed with another girl ten years younger than me. My tortured, pussy-juice-glazed face pops up above her muff and I look up the length of her body, past…
John Counts On The Internet 