Tuesday Funk

Congrats to frequent TF guest Daniel Kraus on winning the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "Angel Down!"

Daniel Kraus A breathless novel of World War I, a stylistic tour-de-force that blends such genres as allegory, magical realism and science fiction into a cohesive whole, told in a single sentence.

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Tuesday Funk #169 - April 7, 2026

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Tonight at Hopleaf: Tuesday Funk #168 - March 3, 2026!

Tuesday Funk #168 - March 3, 2026 Join us in the upstairs lounge at Hopleaf for Chicago's favorite eclectic monthly reading series and help us bring March in like a lion! Tuesday Funk returns March 3, with readings by Maria Kostas, Elizabeth Marley, Edward McClelland, Mar Romasco-Moore, and Jenn Sodini! Admission to Tuesday Funk is....

Did you miss last week's show? Here's a recap! Be sure to enter your name in the field at the end so you get a reminder by email for future editions!

January 2026 Debrief We love a packed room at Tuesday Funk, and the upstairs lounge at Hopleaf was indeed filled to capacity for our 166th edition on January 6, 2026. A queue formed on the stairs ahead of the 7pm door time! Once everyone was settled in where they could, Dmitry Samarov got

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Reminder: One of your first opportunities to uphold that resolution not to stay home this winter is coming up on Tuesday. ;)

Unfortunately Sara Paretsky isn't able to join us for Tuesday Funk #164 - November 4, 2025 — however she will be at Tuesday Funk on January 6 instead!

Taking her place in our November lineup is poet, writer and performer Bridget Gordon!

Join us in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf on Tuesday, Oct. 7 for readings by Esther Cowie, Miles Harvey, Alan Lake, Jitesh Jaggi, and JH Palmer!

Tuesday Funk #163 - October 7, 2025

We've switched our website to Ghost.io! Just in time for our next show: https://www.tuesdayfunk.org/tuesday_funk_162_-_sept_2_2025/

Tuesday Funk #162 - Sept. 2, 2025 See you in September... for Chicago's favorite eclectic reading series! Join us in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf on Tuesday, Sept. 2 for readings by Caitlin Brecht, Susan Buttenweiser, Howard Friedman, Cean Gamalinda, and eri lucia kapling! Admission to Tuesday Funk is always free, but you must be 21....

As the weather warms up, so does Chicago's favorite eclectic monthly reading series! Join us in the upstairs lounge at Hopleaf on June 3 for readings by Diana Babineau, Dayna Bateman, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Eden Robins, and James Stewart III. It'll be a little of everything — mysterious murders, flash fiction, sci-fi and more!

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