Tony Fitzpatrick

"Lost in Darkness" speaks to the voices never heard, the stories never told. The voices of those with no guarantee of hearth and home. Books on housing usually don't make the best-seller lists. Housing isn't "sexy". You won't hear these stories in the late-night on Letterman or Leno. But many of us are just a couple of paychecks away from the street. Recent studies have confirmed it: Twenty-first Century Chicago faces an alarming crisis - a severe shortage of affordable house. This collection captures the real, human stories of housing and homelessness. The words of human beings who shuffle, invisible, through half-lives of bus shelters, viaducts and abandoned basements.

Book of poetry, monologues, prose poetry, and a short story describing an unnamed character who grabbles with life a fictional neighborhood, Hardscrabble. Also described as the South Side of Chicago.

Proximity is a Journal of writing, art and photography. This issue focuses on imaginary cities.

Participants in the Neighborhood writing Alliance collaboratively write our shared history through the personal.

Chicago Sun-Times staff writer Dave Hoekstra offers a sampler of road trip destinations off the beaten path.

"This is the insider's guide for anyone looking to make it in the Windy City arts scene. Whether your field is art, poetry, dance, comedy, film, theater, literature, opera, jazz, or rock n' roll, this hitchhiker's guide to Chicago's arts galaxy tells you where to go, who to talk to, and how to get gigs, showings, auditions, productions, openings and more." Also contains interviews.