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Oyez event

Published on February 21, 2004 0 Comments
Feb ’04
21
12:00 am

Saturday Feb. 21st
5:00 PM
 
Roosevelt University’s Oyez Review is dedicated to bringing you the quality prose, poetry and art you need to get you through your day. It’s delicious and nutritous, tastes just like chicken. This will be an event to celebrate the new issue.
 
Featuring:
 
Robert Vivian who’s first book, Cold Snap As Yearning, was published by the Univ. of Nebraska Press. His essays and poems have appeared in Harper’s, New York Quarterly, Georgia Review and others. He teaches English at Alma College in Michigan.
 
Michael Brownstein is an elementary school science teacher in the Chicago public schools. His work has appeared in The Cafe Review, Kings Estate Press, Ariel and others. Awards include, The Ommation Press Best Chapbook and the Triton College International Poetry Prize. He currently writes for The Southstreet Journal.
 
and photographer Stephanie Dean

Ed Rosenthal aka Ask Ed LIVE!

Published on January 9, 2004 0 Comments
Jan ’04
9
12:00 am

Ed Rosenthal aka “Ask Ed” speaks and reads
Friday December 5th 7PM
 
Mr. Rosenthal is recognized worldwide as a leading authority on marijuana. Over three decades he has written or edited more than a dozen seminal books about marijuana cultivation and social policy that have cumulatively sold over one million copies around the globe. Notably, his first book, Marijuana Grower\’s Handbook, is the only title on marijuana cultivation to be reviewed by The New York Times Book Review. His trademarked \”Ask Ed\” advice column has been in circulation for two decades & continues to answer questions on all matters marijuana from readers around the world. He also hosts \”The 420 Report,\” a monthly radio show on KPFA-Berkeley that blends politics and culture with news, music and call-ins.
 
He will be reading from and discussing some of his many books on
marijuana

Wild Chicago invades Quimby’s

Published on December 13, 2003 0 Comments
Dec ’03
13
12:00 am

Wild Chicago invades Quimby’s
Sunday Nov. 23rd 4pm
 
Join Will Clinger, Mindy Bell, and Harvey Moshman as they celebrate the release of the Wild Chicago, Companion Guidebook.
 
More details TBA

Beth Bosworth reads

Published on December 11, 2003 0 Comments
Dec ’03
11
12:00 am

Beth Bosworth,
author of A Burden of Earth and Other Stories.
Tuesday, November 18, 7:30pm
 
Beth Bosworth – Brooklyn, NY-based novelist and short story writer, author of the collection A Burden of Earth and Other Stories, and the novel Tunneling, which the Chicago Tribune termed “inspired” and the Boston Globe termed “a hallucinatory rush… a wildly original moon shot of a novel”. She is also a founding editor of the Saint Ann’s Review.

Ayun Halliday author East Village Inky

Published on December 10, 2003 0 Comments
Dec ’03
10
12:00 am

Ayun Halliday author East Village Inky
reads from No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late
Thursday December 11th 7PM
 
In addition to being the sole employee of The East Village Inky, Ayun Halliday is the author of No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late and The Big Rumpus. She lives in Brooklyn, but before that she spent 11 years in Chicago where her biggest claim to fame was her ability to sculpt the fat around her navel into a bagel, in the interstitial spaces of Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind.
 
She will be reading and signing her new book No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late
 
more info at www.ayunhalliday.com