1854 W. North Ave · Chicago, IL 60622 · 773-342-0910
| Apr ’08 |
| 17 |
| 8:00 pm |
A Day In The Air (ADITA) is celebrating 10 years of publishing this April. The first issue #0 (powerline/steeple) was publishing in April of 1998. Join Bradley Adita as he reads one brief passage from each zine at Quimbys. A visual and musical presentation will also accompany the reading. Selected back issues, silk screen prints, and other art will be available for purchase. The first 10 guests will recieved a free copy of the lastest zine.
| Apr ’08 |
| 5 |
| 7:00 pm |
Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind is a collection of short stories focusing on the formative and tumultuous moments in the lives of two women as children and adults, whose relationship to one another is cast in an ambiguous light, and whose characters are abstracted within the context of each story. Primarily set in rural America and other transient realms, this book combines realism with elements of meta-fiction, magnifying the extraordinary interpersonal worlds created by the circumstances of their outer reality.
Chavisa Woods is the Author of Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind, her first full-length book. Her previous short stories and poetry have been published nationally and internationally in such publications as: Matador (Spain), Prima Materia (NY), Blue Fog (Figi) 4 AM Poetry, Cake, Big Tex(t), The Bard Gay and Lesbian Review, Howl 10003, Tribes Magazine, Wildflowers, Fuzion, Chronogram, Agenzia Catalogue, What Happens Next?, Where We Live, In the Fray, and Rhapsodist the documentary
Her work has been featured in performance at such venues as: the Annual Vision Festival, , the Howl festival, Sarah Lawrence College, Bard College, I Love NY Poetry, Pink Pony Reading Series, CBS Morning show, HOT Festival at the Dixon Place Theater, The portable Theater Company, Salient Saturdays at the Bowery Poetry Club, Poetic License, The Hidden Treasure Reading Series, the Annual Charlie Parker Festival, Beat Bush Woodstock, WOW Theater- 2006 Bloom Festival, The fresh Fruit Festival, The Telephone Bar Library Lounge ,Red Dreams at the Cornelia Street Cafe, L.E.S. 2002 and 2003 National Poetry Slam
Chavisa will be on hand to read and sign copies of her new book
| Mar ’08 |
| 17 |
| 7:00 pm |
What people are saying about In the Company of Words:
“Closely watched scenes; ringing shifts, gaps; breathtaking progressions, appear in and make up Gregory Kiewiet’s remarkable collection. This book reverberates. It beautifully provokes, moves, even unsettles.” Lynn Crawford
“To seek the company of words is to cultivate the silence in which language speaks. It is as much a matter of listening as of writing, and a willingness to think with words as they exist. In their wry compassion for “a world that needs no introduction” and their fierce humility in the face of its “barbed wire hang-ups,” these poems compel and reward our attention.” Ted Pearson
“There are brilliant traceries in these structures – the poem as filament, the poem as grid. Within them a keen interplay between the abstract and the pointedly concrete. Much of the work of language here goes on in the synapse, in the gap between losses, distances, political “things” at work, climates and unnamed cultural weather, the sudden detail, tatters of conversation, something overheard . . . these themes or movements carried through in an impressive variety of forms and approaches: at first this variety is disarming, but the altercations between stripped and scattered structures and established devices, between the word-driven lyric and something like the memory narrative (done ever so lightly), between translations and poems conceived by the author in Dutch and rendered then into English, becomes at last, by a kind of wonderful accetion, an intriguing and appealing collection, something to be picked up and carried around.” Edward Haworth Hoeppner
Gregory Kiewiet recieved his B. A. in English and Art History from Oakland University (Rochester, MI) and M. A. in English (Creative Writing) from Wayne State University (Detroit, MI) – he is currently pursueing an MFA in Writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Previous work has appeared in http://www.markszine.com/ Dispatch Detroit, Graffiti Rag, Woodward Magazine, and Box.
| May ’08 |
| 14 |
| 7:00 pm |
From graphic designer Chip Kidd comes a brilliant new novel about advertising, electro-shock torture, potato chips, murder, powdered milk, suicide, shoes with buckles, crippling despair, and giant dogs. And the Holocaust.
Fresh out of college in the summer of 1961, Happy lands his first job as a graphic designer (okay, art assistant) at a small Connecticut advertising agency populated by a cast of endearing eccentrics. Life for Happy seems to be—well, happy. But when he’s assigned to design a newspaper ad recruiting participants for an experiment in the Yale Psychology Department, Happy can’t resist responding to the ad himself. Little does he know that the experience will devastate him, forcing a reexamination of his past, his soul, and the nature of human cruelty—chiefly, his own.
Chip Kidd is a writer and graphic designer in New York City. His book jacket designs for Alfred A. Knopf (where he has worked since 1986) have helped spawn a revolution in the art of American book packaging. In 1998 he was made a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationalle, and in 2007 he was awarded the National Design Award for Communications.
Mr. Kidd has also written about graphic design and popular culture for McSweeney’s, The New York Times, The New York Observer, Entertainment Weekly, Details, The New York Post, I.D. and Print. He is author and designer of Batman Collected, Batman Animated, Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz and Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross. As an editor of books of comics for Pantheon (a subsidiary of Knopf) Kidd has worked extensively with some of the most brilliant talents practicing today, including: Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Dan Clowes, Kim Deitch, Charles Burns, Mark Beyer, Ben Katchor and Alex Ross.
A comprehensive monograph of Kidd’s work, CHIP KIDD: BOOK ONE was published in October of 2005. The Cheese Monkeys, Kidd’s first novel, was published by Scribner in Fall of 2001 and was a national bestseller, as well as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His second novel, The Learners, was published in February of 2008.
Chip Kidd will be on hand to read and sign copies of The Learners.
| Apr ’08 |
| 25 |
| 7:00 pm |
Join the founding members of The Lit 6 Project, a Minneapolis-based story performance group known for being funny and sad and good as they read and perform. Geoff Herbach will be reading from his novel The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg and Sam Osterhout will perform in support of The Electric Arc Radio Show which is an internet/radio literary tragi-comedy (heard on Minnesota Public Radio and everywhere online).
More about the performers:
Geoff Herbach is the co-founder of the Lit 6 Project, a lit-based story-telling group that performs in bars, art galleries, and bookstores all over the country. He is a writer and performer in the Electric Arc Radio Show, which airs on Minnesota Public Radio. He curates The Walker Art Center’s new flash fiction competition. The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg is his first novel.
Sam Osterhout is the other co-cofounder of the Lit 6 Project. He hosts the Electric Arc Radio Show on Minnesota Public Radio. His short work has appeared in Minneapolis periodicals The Rake, City Pages, and MNArtists and has been heard on Minnesota Public Radio.
More info:
www.electricarcradio.com
www.lit6project.com
Quimby's Bookstore · 1854 W. North Ave · Chicago, IL 60622 · 773-342-0910 
