Chicagomag.com on Friday will launch a blog called <a href="http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/Off-the-Grid/August-2011/The-Trauma-of-Violence-and-Our-Broken-Communities/"
Off the Grid: Dispatches from Chicago’s Writers-in-Residence. Every so often, we plan to feature a new writer who will post about topics of his or her choosing—anything from personal essays to reported pieces. The only requirement is that the stories be about Chicago and its people. We’re thrilled, then, to introduce our inaugural writer-in-residence,
Alex Kotlowitz, author of
There Are No Children Here and...
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