Tim W. Brown

A showcase and gallery for the voices and visions of Chicago poets, fiction writers, artists, and photographers

The Fiction Review is a Journal of short fiction and photography. It does not receive any grants or support from states or corporations, and depends entirely on subscriptions and bookstores.

Set amid the cornfields and keg parties of Jasper, a fictitious midwestern college town, this book depicts the struggles of Underdog, a townie, against his many enemies at Jasper College. He competes with a professor, in a book deconstructing the TV show Green Acres, for the affections of a beautiful but haunted woman...

From the same metafictional universe as films like Best in Show and This is Spinal Tap, Walking Man documents the life and times of Brian Walker, publisher of the zine Walking Man. The book satirizes so-called "alternative" culture while it fondly recollects the 80s and 90s zine scene.

A collection of short stories, poetry, art, and general cultural discussion, some coffee- or coffeehouse culture-related

Novel set in the mid-1980s chronicling the misadventures of two roommates living in a loft just west of the Loop. They are the only inhabitants of their neighborhood, save for a few hookers and homeless people. Together they confront the ugly sights, sounds and smells of this urban frontier.