Just a small note for you literature fans, and especially those of you here in Chicago; that the Gapers Block Book Club, a side project of the insanely popular online arts-and-entertainment guide, has decided to add weekly content to their club's website, along with the monthly physical meet-ups they had been doing. Their first, for example, is an excellent review of their current club selection, Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City, a must-read for anyone interested in Chicago's sordid past.
Don't forget, by the way, that Andrew Huff, Gapers Block's founder and editor-in-chief, will be a guest of the center's own CCLaP Sessions on Friday, November 19th. I'll be talking with Andrew on a stage in front of a live audience for about an hour, concerning all kinds of random subjects -- his background, the trials and tribulations of running a commercial website, his thoughts on citizen media and citizen journalism, just all kinds of other interesting things. I encourage all of you to become regular visitors of their site, if you aren't one already; and I especially encourage Chicagoans to make it out to their monthly social events, because they really are quite fun.