I was very much taken by Richard Jordan's column about how new writing in Chicago has been produced in abandoned retail spaces (March 31, page 11). But with all of the shops that go empty in this country, reopen with new ideas and then go empty again soon afterwards, it seems very unlikely that it would ever work here. This is especially the case today when people are being attracted away from smaller shops by the gi…
SOURCE: The Stage at 08:56AM on May 9, 2011