Looped, by Andrew Winston, published by Agate, is a debut novel that encompasses the bursting life of a contemporary American city. Looped tells the separate stories of a diverse group of Chicagoans—Black, brown, and white, gay, straight, and bi—as their lives unfold in diverging and (occasionally) converging ways over the course of the year 2000. Winston lives with his wife near Chicago. He signs copies of the book April 7, 7:30 p.m. at Borders in Uptown, Lawrence and Broadway.