Chicagoans goes 3-D
The wonderful folks at Groundfire Pictures and I have collaborated on some short online films starring a few of the people who’ve appeared in my Chicago Reader series, “Chicagoans,” over the last three years. Check them out here, won’t you? In December, Mike Stephen of Outside the Loop Radio interviewed me about the project. You […]
How I find those people, anyway
When people find out I’m a freelance writer, they usually ask me what I write about (mostly profiles and travel, some health and religion), whether I write stories and then try to sell them (nope, mostly the reverse), and whether it’s really possible to support oneself this way (yes indeed, though it’s not a cakewalk). And […]