Live lit keeps the story circles unbroken
As Write Club turns ten, founder Ian Belknap looks at the current state of the art in Chicago. I coined the term "live lit" over lunch with Keith Ecker in 2011. We were at Kopi Café in Andersonville, discussing a fix for the minor problem we shared: that the existing term "storytelling," emphasizing as it did both "narrative" and "speech," did not encompass what we were both attempting w…