We welcome author J. Adams Oaks as our guest to the corner booth to discuss the craft of writing. J. Adams Oaks is a writer, editor, and translator from Chicago. His first novel, WHY I FIGHT (Atheneum Books, Simon & Schuster), was a Junior Library Guild selection, an ALA Best Book For Young Adults and won awards from the National Society of Arts and Letters, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Lincoln Award from the Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Master List. His short stories and essays appear in The Nervous Breakdown, River Oak Review, The Madison Review, Packingtown Review, Hypertext Magazine, and numerous anthologies including Windy City Queer and The Way We Sleep. To connect with Tim and Art directly, email the show at [email protected].

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