Drew Glass

Stories About Loyalty, Consequence, and the Choices People Make

Drew Glass writes character-driven fiction about flawed people, dangerous decisions, neighborhood mythology, moral tension, and the strange logic people use to justify who they become.

His stories move among crime fiction, dark satire, absurdist storytelling, and grounded human drama, often exploring the moment when ordinary lives begin to slide toward irreversible consequences.

Written under the name Drew Glass in honor of his grandfather, Stan Glazewski (Glass), the work blends a strong narrative voice, lived-in settings, humor, tension, and deeply human conflict.

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The Make-Right Man: A Chicago Reckoning

Some men become legends because of what they accomplish.

Others become legends because nobody can quite agree on what really happened.

The Make Right Man – A Chicago Reckoning is a sprawling Chicago crime novel rooted in neighborhood loyalty, organized crime, survival, identity, and the emotional cost of becoming the person everyone depends on.

Told through layered perspectives, memory, mythology, and moral tension, the novel explores what happens when a man slowly hardens into the role the world demands from him—and whether there is any way back once that transformation is complete.

Set against the backdrop of Chicago’s South Side, the story blends crime fiction, neighborhood folklore, dark humor, and emotional reckoning into a deeply human narrative about consequence and survival.

Available now in paperback and Kindle formats!

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The Make-Right Man: A Chicago Reckoning | A Novel by Drew Glass

The Storyteller

Built Around Voice, Atmosphere, and Consequence

Whether grounded in Chicago neighborhoods, absurdist satire, or darkly comic cautionary tales, Drew Glass stories focus on people navigating systems larger than themselves—crime, politics, family, institutions, ambition, ego, and survival.

Some stories are tense and grounded.
Others are funny right up until they stop being funny.

But all of them are built around voice, emotional realism, moral tension, and the complicated stories people tell themselves to justify who they’ve become.

Stories in Development

Current and upcoming projects include:

Crime Fiction | Absurdist Storytelling & Satirical Historical Fiction | Dark Comedic Cautionary Tales | Character-driven Literary Fiction

Future work will continue exploring loyalty, mythology, self-preservation, institutional absurdity, and the slippery slope between ordinary decisions and irreversible consequences.

‍The Podcast: You Don’t Say…

From Page to Voice

In addition to fiction writing, Drew Glass is one of the creators and producers of the podcast You Don’t Say… Stories from the Drew Zagorski Files.

The podcast features stories drawn from memory, experience, observation, and the spaces in between, blending narrative storytelling, humor, reflection, fascinating lives, and lived perspective.

This crossover between page and performance helps shape a storytelling style that feels conversational, cinematic, immediate, and human.

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Drew Glass writes character-driven fiction exploring loyalty, consequence, crime, absurdity, alternate history, and other stories about the choices that make lives interesting.

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