Jason's writing

Guess what? I'm writing a new novel. (Nonfiction)

description: A recent personal essay from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography.
chapter 1: A recent personal essay from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography. (added 2009/11/02 )

Where do litbloggers find their books? (Nonfiction)

description: A recent personal essay from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography.
chapter 1: A personal essay from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (added 2009/09/09 )

Algren at 100: A CCLaP essay series (Nonfiction)

description: Announcing the 2009 CCLaP summer reading project, in which I read for the first time nearly the entire ouevre of controversial 20th-century Chicago author Nelson Algren.
chapter 1: Introduction (added 2009/06/10 )
chapter 2: Somebody in Boots (1935) (added 2009/06/18 )
chapter 3: Never Come Morning (1942) (added 2009/07/06 )

The CCLaP music library reaches 500 songs. (Nonfiction)

description: A personal essay from my arts center, on the occasion of downloading my 500th free legal song since opening CCLaP, examining what this means not only about the arts but culture in general.
chapter 1: A personal essay from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (added 2009/06/29 )

Announcing the "CCLAPocracy" -- my arts center's new community microblog (Arts & Photography)

description: An essay about the new Twitter-style "microblog" I recently opened at my arts center, so that readers can finally communicate directly with each other.
chapter 1: A personal essay from the pages of the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (added 2009/01/08 )

The Year In Books 2008 (Literature & Fiction)

description: The four-part detailed "Year In Books" report I originally wrote for my arts organization, the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography.
chapter 1: An overview (added 2009/01/02 )
chapter 2: Best of the best (added 2009/01/02 )
chapter 3: Worth a second look (added 2009/01/02 )
chapter 4: Best experimental (added 2009/01/08 )
chapter 5: The CCLaP Guilty Pleasure Awards (added 2009/01/02 )

Gadzooks! I added 600 new book ratings here this weekend! (Nonfiction)

description: A personal essay about online book rating systems in the late 2000s, originally published at my arts center.
chapter 1: A personal essay from the pages of the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (added 2009/01/22 )

The Great iPod Indie-Rock Challenge of 2008 -- a mid-year report. (Nonfiction)

description: At the beginning of this year, I issued myself a challenge, to replace the sad old '80s and '90s indie-rock on my little 1-gig iPod with all-new music from contemporary bands. Here, a report on how it's been going, six months into the experiment.
chapter 1: A personal essay from the pages of the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (added 2008/08/26 )

The German. (Literature & Fiction)

description: My first new piece of fiction in four years, since famously declaring my retirement. Why did I write it? I don't know; it just sorta popped out of me the other day.
chapter 1: A new piece of flash fiction. (added 2008/12/29 )

Here's why I'm dropping the "Too Awful To Finish" series. (Nonfiction)

description: A personal essay originally published at the blog of my arts center, on why I'm dropping the snarkiest essay series found there, the books "Too Awful To Finish."
chapter 1: An essay on snark, literary criticism, and hipster douchebags. (added 2008/12/27 )

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