Backbooth is the online home of Eli Effinger-Weintraub, a Minneapolis-based writer and performer.

There’s a place a writer goes to when they really believe in writing. Maybe the rest of the time we despair of ever writing a word that’ll matter a damn to anyone, but sometimes we believe our scribbling can change the whole freakin’ world, if only we can find enough time, enough caffeine, enough solitude, enough booze, enough words. Some of the places are real; some are only in our heads; but we all have one. The Back Booth is mine.