Profile of the Literary Magazine LVNG for the Chicago Reader

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LVNG 11, with a cover by Jeff Marlin.

Three nights a week Michael O’Leary sits in a back room at Reckless Records on Broadway and searches for scratches on vintage vinyl team task management. He has a second job working at the University of Chicago’s Regenstein Library. He also paints and occasionally writes prose, but he considers himself first and foremost a poet. His main preoccupation for the last few years has been developing the literary magazine LVNG, (pronounced “lung”), a name inspired by a favorite song. Read my profile of the creators of LVNG here.