RUI: Reading Under the Influence

Because everyone needs a literary hangover


Jesse Jordan

Jesse Jordan is a graduate student at Columbia College Chicago. His work has appeared in FreightTrain, Bluelit and The Panic Diaries (Ulysses Press, 2004); as well as in Hair Trigger 26, where it received the David Friedman Memorial Prize.

He is currently shopping his first novel, Grandville, and is at work on the second.

His dog is named Moose, his wife is Italian, he takes 10mg of Paxil every night and feels actual, physical pain when the Bears lose. He prefers the Sun-Times to the Tribune, Cabernet to Shiraz, Hemingway to Faulkner and is often gratingly pompous.