Readings, Rated
Billy Lombardo and Tony Romano
Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2007
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Harold Washington Public Library
What’s better than an author event at the Harold Washington Library? Why, an aurhor event with Italian-American Chicago writers of literary fiction. What’s even better than an author event with Italian-American writers of literary fiction? Italian-American literary writers that are also high school English teachers! Forgive my moment of ethnic pride, but I’ll be the one in the back of the room wearing a red, white and green beanie with the Italian Flag stitched above the brim. Billy Lombardo, who teaches at Latin, is a short-story writer who has recently published a prize-winning collection called The Logic of a Rose: Chicago Stories. 25-year CPS veteran and frequent NPR contributor Tony Romano is the author of a novel called When the World Was Young.