Check out The Chicago Reader "Spring Books: Homages" feature articles in which  five Chicago novelists write about the books and writers that inspired them. Joe Meno writes about Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five in the article, “Vonnegut’s Disciple: Slaughterhouse-Five gave Joe Meno a path to The Great Perhaps.” The other articles in the series on Chicago writers are: “Finding Thomas McGuane: Luis Alberto Urrea discovered a master in beat-up paperbacks;” “A Chelsea of … [Read more...]