Michael Czyzniejewski

I Will Love You for the Rest of My Life: Breakup Stories Michael Czyzniejewski

"Flexing impressive literary chops, the beer vendor/creative-writing professor captures both the tough, defensive exterior and the vulnerable, often-broken heart of his city."?Time Out Chicago, on Michael Czyzniejewski's Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions

"Chicago, a page at a time. Michael Czyzniejewski gets right to the point in telling the city's stories."?Chicago Tribune, on Michael Czyzniejewski's Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions

"In Chicago Stories, Michael Czyzniejewski summons all of Chicago?its ghosts, living and dead, its heroes and fools, sinners and saints, its people and places and all of its occasions?and in these pages they have gathered, strange and unlikely bedfellows, to sing a new song for Chicago."?Billy Lombardo, author of The Man With Two Arms

I Will Love You For the Rest of My Life: Breakup Stories explores the humor in throwing yourself into love and having your heart broken. An astronaut's husband cheats on her while she's deployed in space and blows his own cover, a couple becomes pregnant and the husband can't decide who to blame, a man exploits his peanut allergy for good sex.

Michael Czyzniejewski is the author of the story collections Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions and Elephants in Our Bedroom and has been published in over seventy literary journals, including Another Chicago Magazine, Ninth Letter, Gulf Coast, the Southern Review, and StoryQuarterly. In 2010 he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for his fiction. A Chicago native, Czyzniejewski has sold beer at Wrigley Field every summer since 1988.