Booked. is proud to bring you the latest Noir at the Bar Chicago reading. We managed to pack the entire reading into one episode, so you're hearing the full complement today! Frank Wheeler Jr kicks off with a short story from Crime Factory, followed by Noir at the Bar Chicago's organizer Jake Hinkson reading from his new book No Tomorrow. Wrapping up the evening, all the way from Colorado is Jon Bassoff reading from The Incurables.

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Frank Wheeler Jr. is the author of two published novels, The Wowzer, and The Good Life. He is a graduate of a Master’s program in English, and also a Police Academy. He works as a security professional in Wisconsin, where he lives with his wife, Marie.

Jake Hinkson is the author of three novels (HELL ON CHURCH STREET, THE POSTHUMOUS MAN, THE BIG UGLY), a novella (SAINT HOMICIDE), and a short story collection (THE DEEPENING SHADE). In addition, he has written articles and profiles for The Los Angeles Review Of Books, Mental Floss, Mystery Scene, and Noir City. His first collection of essays, THE BLIND ALLEY: EXPLORING FILM NOIR'S FORGOTTEN CORNERS, has just been released. His novels have been translated into French. He lives in Chicago. 

Jon Bassoff was born in 1974 in New York City and currently lives with his family and a sickly greyhound in a ghost town somewhere in Colorado. His mountain gothic novel, Corrosion, was called “startlingly original and unsettling” by Tom Piccirilli, a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award, and won the DarkFuse Reader’s Choice Award for best novel. His surrealistic follow-up, Factory Town, was called “A hallucinatory descent into an urban hell” by Bram Stoker award-winning author Ramsey Campbell. His latest novel, The Incurables, will be released in November of 2015. For his day job, Bassoff teaches high school English where he is known by students and faculty alike as the deranged writer guy. He is a connoisseur of tequila, hot sauces, psychobilly music, and flea-bag motels.

Next episode: We review The Familiar vol 2: Into the Forest.

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