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Allison Hantschel

About Me:
Allison Hantschel is a 10-year veteran of the newspaper business. She publishes First Draft, a writing and politics blog, with her partners Holden, Jude and Scout. She is the author of the books Chicago's Historic Irish Pubs (2011, Arcadia Publishing, with Mike Danahey) and It Doesn’t End With Us: The Story of the Daily Cardinal, about a great liberal journalism institution (2007, Heritage Books). She also edited the anthology “Special Plans: The Blogs on Douglas Feith and the Faulty Intelligence That Led to War” (2005, William, James & Co.) Her work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the Daily Southtown, Sirens Magazine, and Alternet. She lives in Chicago with her husband, two ferrets, and approximately 60 tons of books.
 
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About Me:
Allison Hantschel is a 10-year veteran of the newspaper business. She publishes First Draft, a writing and politics blog, with her partners Holden, Jude and Scout. She is the author of the books Chicago's Historic Irish Pubs (2011, Arcadia Publishing, with Mike Danahey) and It Doesn’t End With Us: The Story of the Daily Cardinal, about a great liberal journalism institution (2007, Heritage Books). She also edited the anthology “Special Plans: The Blogs on Douglas Feith and the Faulty Intelligence That Led to War” (2005, William, James & Co.) Her work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the Daily Southtown, Sirens Magazine, and Alternet. She lives in Chicago with her husband, two ferrets, and approximately 60 tons of books.

Late Night: ‘It Is Not A Story. It Is A Life.’

By: Monday June 17, 2013 8:00 pm

If we’re ever together and you just want to piss me off, turn me into Humorless History Girl Who Takes Things Too Seriously, make a surrender-monkey joke about the French. Remind me how we poured French wine down sewers and renamed the fries in the cafeteria Freedom Fries and talked all day long on TV about how the French are pussies who make cheese and run at the first sign of a fight. Go ahead.

Late Night: On Wisconsin Journalism

By: Monday June 10, 2013 8:00 pm

So the Wisconsin state legislature last week decided to pick a fight with a small nonprofit journalism operation, because book learning is for liberals, and because they could. The University, which houses the center in exchange for paid internship experience for students, has to its credit given no fucks at all in responding to the attack.

Late Night: First They Came for the Bootstraps

By: Monday June 3, 2013 8:00 pm

So work two jobs. I can hear them saying it, the bootstrap people. So work three. So save every single penny you ever earn. Don’t eat lunch. Don’t eat dinner. Don’t go to the movies. Don’t buy yourself a prom dress or a new shirt. Don’t put gas in your car.

Late Night: Dear Readers, Screw You

By: Monday May 27, 2013 8:00 pm

1998 called, it says hang in there, the music gets better.

Late Night: A Poor Neighborhood Is Not FOR You

By: Monday May 20, 2013 8:00 pm

This goes back to the whole “I can’t go there without a sidearm” kind of thing I was talking about before, where you assume people who don’t live in your neighborhood aren’t real. They don’t, say, get up and go to work or come home and sit on their porch reading or listening to the game. They don’t love their children or drive through the hamburger place or check books out of the library or get their hair cut or drink coffee. They think violence is normal and gang affiliation is awesome and everybody be slingin’ tonight. Their ways are strange to us all. I mean, God Almighty:

Late Night: Safety in Numbers

By: Monday May 6, 2013 8:00 pm

I want to expand on something I started ranting about over at my place, because Jesus tits, Howell Raines.

Late Night: Kids Should Work for Food

By: Monday April 29, 2013 8:00 pm

I swear whenever these Republican knobs start yobbing off about how poor people just need to learn to work hard, I think YOU FIRST ASSHOLE. I doubt any of them have ever hauled anything heavier than a double scotch, but boy are they eager to stand watch with a whip while the little children pick in the fields and scrub in the hallways.

Late Night: True But Reductive

By: Monday April 22, 2013 8:00 pm

But it’s not Obama Republicans should be afraid of. It’s us.

Late Night: NO WONDER

By: Monday April 15, 2013 8:00 pm

Kerry once again pisses off all the right wingnuts by relaying the info that people overseas think we are fucking insane.

Late Night: Bigots are the New Gay People

By: Monday April 8, 2013 8:00 pm

You want to be at the cool party, and you’re upset that you can’t be at the cool party and still be so uncool. Well, guess what? It’s time to learn to deal. You don’t get to have everything. Welcome to the United States of the rest of us.

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