Toni Schlesinger is a Chicago-native, New York City-based journalist, theater artist, and fiction writer. She is best known for her long-running “Shelter” column in The Village Voice (1997–2006) and New York Observer (2006–07). A selection of the Voice pieces is gathered in the book Five Flights Up (Princeton Architectural Press 2006), which Tom Hanks hailed as a must-read and about which playwright Tony Kushner wrote, “Toni Schlesinger’s book describes this relationship of the accidental to the profound, the domestic to the totally weird; she visits, draws out and celebrates this permanent impermanence better than anyone ever has.” Previously, Schlesinger was a writer and columnist for the Chicago Reader (1977–1992), where she first collaborated with illustrator Tom Bachtell.
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