Solace in a Book

Printers Row Lit Fest– be sure to visit Tent L!

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Weighed Words will be selling Solace in So Many Words at the Printers Row Lit Fest which is this weekend, June 9 and 10, from 10 until 6 each day.  You can get all the details of events and readings at the Chicago Tribune's site.  The Lit Fest takes place on Dearborn Street from Congress to Polk Street, in the historic Printer's Row. Look for us  in TENT L, which is in the middle of the action, near Grace Place Episcopal Church at 637 Dearborn. Sponsored by the Chicago … [Read more...]

E. Michael Desilets’ “Tom sums it up on Saturday”

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Tom sums it up on Saturday His brain was a big gray balloon and he let go of the string his frontal lobes now sky high as well as atrophied. Whose fault was this? There was no one to blame. No one whose name he could remember.   He unplugged the phone and shoved it under the bed. He was exhausted from pretending to know all the voices. The universe was full of cousins who had his number. Still Groucho said Hello, I must … [Read more...]