Over the weekend, I asked you to help me pick your favorite web writers for the Five Easy Questions feature on this site. There's still room for plenty more suggestions, but Khalil A. Cassimally chimed in with a great new writer that I hadn't read yet.
Claire Zulkey has built up a busy site that strikes the perfect webby balance: she offers plenty of her own work, mixed with interviews with super-cool writers like Kate Braverman.
The site has a handy feature where readers can send in questions for the aforementioned supercool writers, making for some interactive action. Best of all, Zulkey lives in Chicago--raising this Midwestern-exile's spirits.
I'll get working on more interviews, and you should send me more suggestions for writers to interview...
In the meantime, check out Zulkey's hilarious McSweeney's short short story, "Secrets Revealed During VH1's 'I Love the '90's.'": "Julia Roberts' heart in Pretty Woman was not actually made of gold. That doesn't happen in real life."
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