Meanwhile, Roxy Mourns - Softcover

Billy Lombardo is a Chicago writer from the Bridgeport neighborhood. He is the author of 'The Logic of a Rose: Chicago Stories' (a Chicago Tribune Best Fiction of 2005 selection), 'Meanwhile, Roxy Mourns' (EM Press) and 'The Man with Two Arms'. Billy teaches English literature and creative writing at Latin School of Chicago and teaches fiction for UCLA's Extension program.

Lombardo's stories reflect the natural grace of someone who not only grew up in the city but who possesses the precise touch to express his points with honesty and art. --Chicago Tribune

Lombardo knows this world intimately and writes with a naturalness that makes his streetsmart surface wholly convincing, but the seeming effortlessness of his storytelling depends on a sophisticated sense of craft and a deep sense of empathy. --Stuart Dybek, author of 'Streets in Their Own Ink' and 'I Sailed with Magellan'

Here is the heartbreak and resilience and minutia love living in partnership with a woman, a father, a family, a neighborhood, a city and history. With deep empathy and love for the underdog and a sweet nostalgia for old Chicago, Billy Lombardo adds to the realist urban canon that has made this city's literature its name. --Kevin Coval, author 'Everyday People'