Neal Pollack, Joe Meno, Marlon James September 2, 2005

 
Chicago Noir Event, with MARLON JAMES (John Crow's Devil), NEAL POLLACK (editor of Chicago Noir), and JOE MENO (How the Hula Girl Sings)
 
NEAL POLLACK worked as a reporter for the Chicago Reader from 1993-2000,
where he wrote the "Petty Crime" column, among many other assignments. He's the
author of three books of satire, including the cult classic The Neal Pollack
Anthology of American Literature and the rock-n-roll novel Never Mind the
Pollacks. His short fiction has appeared in several anthologies and magazines, and
he?s a regular contributor to Vanity Fair and Nerve.

 

JOE MENO is a fiction writer from Chicago and winner of a Nelson Algren
Literary Award. His latest best-selling novel, Hairstyles of the Damned, a
selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program, follows the
exploits of adolescents as they struggle for belonging on Chicago's south side. He
is a professor of creative writing at Columbia College, Chicago, the cofounder
of Sleepwalk magazine, coeditor of Bail magazine, and a columnist for Punk
Planet magazine.

 

MARLON JAMES was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1970. He graduated from the
University of the West Indies in 1991 with a degree in Literature. An
award-winning artist and writer, this is his first novel. He lives in Kingston.