Daily Archive for July 15th, 2009

Top 10 Last Week

Back to basics! This is for the week ending July 11th. Enjoy!

1. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00

2. Multiforce by Mat Brinkman (Picturebox) $15.00

3. Butt #26 $9.90

4. First Line vol 11 #2 $3.00

5. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith (Quirk) $12.95

6. Studs Terkels Working A Graphic Adaptation (New Press) $22.95

7. Order of the Odd Fish by James Kennedy (Delacorte) $15.99

8. Importance of Music to Girls by Lavinia Greenlaw (Picador) $15.00

9. Gigantic #1 $3.00

10. Monologues For Calculating The Density Of Black Holes by Anders Nilsen (Fantagraphics) $22.99

Dave Reidy and Friends Host a Quaroke Reading

Jul ’09
15
6:45 pm

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Dave Reidy’s collection of , entitled Captive Audience (IgPublishing) features, among other stories, the award-winning story “The Regular.” And that particular piece is about arty nerdy introverts doing karaoke. In Chicago. In a neighborhood that sounds suspiciously like Wicker Park.

What better way to welcome this new collection of punchy literature with a night of Quimby’s Quaraoke? KJ (that’s karaoke disc jockey, folks) services will be provided by Shameless Karaoke, a husband-wife team composed of, well, arty nerdy introverts who met doing karaoke. In Chicago.

Also appearing: Claire Zulkey, Megan Stielstra and Mark Bazer

“Dave Reidy’s matchless reports from the heart of twenty-first century America, a landscape of technological obsession and performance anxiety (in many forms), are elegant, precise, cool, and funny. Here is a young writer from whom we can expect much in the future.” -David Leavitt, Author of The Indian Clerk

Dave Reidy’s fiction has appeared in Pindeldyboz and The MacGuffin. In 2007, Charles D’Ambrosio chose Reidy’s story “The Regular” as winner of the Emerging Writers Network Short Story Competition. Captive Audience, a collection of short stories about performers, is his first book.

For more info: http://www.davereidy.com

FREE EVENT