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Writers' Block Party
Amy has been a contributor on Eight-Forty-Eight since 1998 and first brought us WBP in 2001. The series airs semi-regularly and is produced by chicagopublicradio.org.
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Writers Block Party: Celebrating the Number 8.  
Another installment of our literary variety show within a show called Writers' Block Party. Today, the show focuses on the number eight.
Writers Block Party: Sea To Shining CO2  
Amy Krouse Rosenthal welcomes local musician Nick Gage and local writer David Daskal to Writers Block Party.
Writers Block Party: Lucky Penny Project  
Amy Krause Rosenthal brings us the latest installment in the literary show-within-a-show, Writers Block Party.
Writer's Block Party  
The show within a show, “Writers Block Party”returns with musical columnist Tony Rogers, writer Steve Sacks and selections from the “Life Sentence Project.”    
 
Writers Block Party  
Amy Krouse Rosenthal, host of the literary/variety “show within a show,” brings us stories reflecting on the art of lists.
“Writers' Block Party”  
Hosted by contributor Amy Krouse Rosenthal, our literary and music variety show features Chicago band Baby Teeth, writer Wendy McClure and artist Chuck Jones. Find out more about all of them on the Writer's Block Party Web site.

Wendy McClure is author of I’m Not the New Me: A Memoir (Penguin Group, 2005).
Writers Block Party  
We re-launch this literary and music variety “show within a show” hosted by longtime Eight Forty-Eight contributor Amy Krouse Rosenthal. In this episode, Hugh Musick brings us the story of an avant garde ice cream man, some advice for “Peeved in Palatine” from musical advice col-hum-nist Tony Rogers…Susan McLaughlin Karp cherishes her tethers…and a poem by Lucia Blinn.

Check out “WBP” Web exclusives, including another poem by Lucia and a short film by Steve Delahoyde, on the “Writers’ Block Party” Web site.
Writer’s Block Party  
Amy Krouse Rosenthal—Writer
Elizabeth Crane—Writer
Martha Berner—Singer/Songwriter
Guy Nickson—Co-owner, Wishbone Restaurant
Debe Welch—Singer/Songwriter

Chicago author and host of Writer's Block Party Amy Krouse Rosenthal takes us on a literary and musical journey through Chicago.

Rosenthal is the author of Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life (Crown, 2005).
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