Monthly Archive for July, 2004

An Evening with Lady Churchill?s Rosebud Wristlet
Tuesday, June 1st, 7:30 PM
 
A Night of Readings and Perhaps More from the pages of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
featuring:
 
Hannah Wolf Bowen is a Philosophy major, an assistant editor for the Fortean Bureau, and the person of an ungrateful (yet adorable) horse and a neurotic (yet adorable) dog. Some of her stories have found homes. Others have not. These things happen.
 
John Trey attempts to exploit whatever meager talents he possesses from an old house in a suburb in the Midwest, where he keeps all brooms locked safely in a closet. When not writing, reading, or critiquing, he often can be found playing with his daughter, listening to jazz, or pondering the mysteries of invisibility.
 
Dave Schwartz’s “The Ichthymancer Writes His Friend with an Account of the Yeti’s Birthday Party”, was the lead story in LCRW 13. Schwartz is the reincarnation of a famous dancing bear who once entertained thousands of Bolivian mine workers. He is indigenous to the Midwestern United States, and traces of his spoor have appeared in On Spec and Flashquake.org. He prefers tea, thank you. He appears on the edge of publishing a zine.
 
Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link (Stranger Things Happen) publish the zine, Lady Churchill\’s Rosebud Wristlet and run Small Beer Press. They read an awful lot (Kelly quickly, Gavin not so) and write sometimes. They have driven here from Northampton, MA. Apropos of nothing, but we also have 2 new books coming out, 2 new chapbooks, and a new issue of our zine. People ask why is the press called Small Beer Press? We just like beer!
 
More info is at: http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/index.htm
 
FREE

The 2ndHand celebrates the release of All Hands On
Live at Quimby?s
Thursday, July 1st, 7:00 PM
FREE
 
ALL HANDS ON: A THE2NDHAND Reading is a reading, indeed, a performance of works included in ALL HANDS ON: A THE2NDHAND Reader, the newly released anthology of the best work published in Chicago\’s broadsheet and online weekly for new writing, THE2NDHAND. Contributors to the book perform, along with the editors and various guest, whose simian hi-jinx can be anticipated, but not announced. We\’re keeping our ears up.
 
JOHN H. MATTHEWS has had fiction published in Inkburns, The Whirligig, and
Pindeldyboz and used to play drums for Six Slug Vacation. He lives in
Chicago.
 
BRIAN COSTELLO spent his unmemorable (to him) infancy in Creve Coeur, Missouri; his idyllic (to him) childhood in Peoria, Illinois; his dramatic (to him) adolescence in unincorporated Seminole County, Florida; a lost year (to all concerned) in Gainesville, Florida; AND his enchanted (to a few maybe, if not many, some though, definitely) adulthood in Chicago, Illinois. He was first published in THE2NDHAND, and has since been published in New City Chicago, Bridge, Sleepwalk, Hair Trigger, Horizontal Action, Maximumrocknroll, and others. He plays drums for the Functional Blackouts, and hosts a live talk show at the Empty Bottle. We had a chance to meet up with Brian at Spago Chicago, where he was flirting with Amanda Puck while wolfing down bruschetta and calamari appetizers. When asked \”Are you still working on your appetizers?\” he answered, \”Yes. Yes I am.\”
 
TODD DILLS lives in Chicago and is author of For Weeks Above the Umbrella, a collection published in 2002. His work has appeared in various publications, including Little Engines, Pindeldyboz, New City, the Chicago Reader, and others. He is the founding editor of THE2NDHAND.
 
JEB GLEASON-ALLURED dreams in heavy metal and describes his stories as postconscious. Yes. He lives in Chicago and is an editor at THE2NDHAND.