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Mark Todd and Esther Pearl WatsonFriday May 11th 7PM
 
SAY WHAT? YOU HEARD IT RIGHT. ROLL OVER TO QUIMBY’S TO MEET MARK TODD AND ESTHER PEARL WATSON (OF UNLOVABLE FAME). ARTISTS, ZINESTERS AND AUTHORS, READY TO TALK ABOUT THEIR LATEST BOOK, WHATCHA MEAN, WHAT’S A ZINE?, A VISUAL HOW-TO OF COOL TIPS AND TRICKS OF SELF-PUBLISHING. IT WILL SURELY BE A FUN FILLED EVENING OF INTERESTING STORIES, ENTICING TIDBITS AND VISUAL OVERLOAD.
 
Mark Todd graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California in 1993. He then moved to New York City, working with clients such as Mtv, Coca-Cola, Sony Music, The New Yorker and The MTA. In 2003, he moved back to southern California with his wife and fellow artist, Esther Pearl Watson and their 5 year old daughter Lili, an avid artist herself. Mark also co-teaches with Esther at Art Center College of Design. Their latest book for teens, “Whatcha mean, What’s A Zine?” about creating zines and mini-comics, published by Houghton Mifflin, was recently released.
 
Esther Pearl Watson grew up in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Her family moved often, since her father’s hobby of building huge flying saucers out of scrap metal and car engines didn’t always sit well with the neighbors. Esther’s pieces are often overtly narrative, clear but mysterious scenes of houses or figures ornamented with snippets of prose telling just enough to get the viewer’s own imagination engaged, wanting to know more. Some are about family, some about places, all have a rich interior life. Her works without words are just as suggestive of story, also exerting a deep emotional pull. Her works have been comissioned for magazines including Time, New York Times, and Entertainment Weekly.

Wednesday May 9th 8PM
The2ndHand is hosting NY author Tao Lin in support of his new story collection “Bed” and novel “Eeeee Eee Eeee” (both from Melville House).
 
Tao Lin is the author of a small poetry book: THIS EMOTION WAS A LITTLE E-BOOK (Bear Parade) a small fiction book: TODAY THE SKY IS BLUE AND WHITE WITH BRIGHT BLUE SPOTS AND A SMALL PALE MOON AND I WILL DESTROY OUR RELATIONSHIP TODAY (Bear Parade) a poetry-collection: YOU ARE A LITTLE BIT HAPPIER THAN I AM (Action Books) a story-collection: BED (May 2007 Melville House) and a novel: EEEEE EEE EEEE (May 2007 Melville House)
 
Check out Tao?s blog
http://reader-of-depressing-books.blogspot.com/
 
Jeb Gleason-Allured, the Chicago editor of The2ndHand.com, will also be reading and hosting this event.

Don your trench coast and dark glasses and join us for authors Allan MacDonell and Josh Alan Friedman as they read and sign copies of their most recent books with host Mike McPaddenSaturday, April 28st, 7:00 PM
 
ALLAN MACDONELL is the author of PRISONER OF X: 20 YEARS IN THE HOLE AT HUSTLER MAGAZINE. Just as the subtitle of his memoir states, Allan MacDonell rose through the ranks at Larry Flynt Publications over the course of two decades. He ultimately ran America’s Magazine from 1991 until 2002, when he was fired following his barbed jokes during a Larry Flynt Roast.
 
During his tenure, Allan brought numerous underground artists and writers on board as Hustler contributors, including Dan Clowes, Peter Bagge, Joe Coleman, Lisa Carver, and Feral House publisher Adam Parfrey. Among the derring-do detailed in PRISONER OF X are Allan’s viewing of a sex tape involving Ted Turner, Jane Fonda and a strap-on dildo, pulling pranks on Dennis Hopper and Frank Zappa, and spearheading The Flynt Report, which prompted multiple Republican resignations from Congress in 2000. Post-Hustler, Allan has been a regular contributor to the LA Weekly.
 
JOSH ALAN FRIEDMAN is the author of TALES OF TIMES SQUARE, WHEN SEX WAS DIRTY, I, GOLDSTEIN: MY SCREWED LIFE (co-authored with Al Goldstein), ANY RESEMBLANCE TO PERSONS LIVING OR DEAD (with Drew Friedman), and WARTS AND ALL (with Drew Friedman). The son of ’60s satirist Bruce Jay Friedman and the brother of astonishing illustrator Drew Friedman, Josh Alan Friedman carved out his own niche as the premiere chronicler of New York lowlife just moments before AIDS, crack and mainstream panic ended one of the sleaziest periods in the city’s history. Josh was SCREW magazine’s man on the (42nd) Street at the height of midtown Manhattan’s professional sex explosion, an experience he turned into the anthropological mind-blower TALES OF TIME SQUARE.
 
In 2004, Feral House issued a follow-up titled WHEN SEX WAS DIRTY, and presently plans to edit the books together into a single volume. While covering the peepshow beat, Josh also wrote scripts that his brother illustrated for comic strips that hilariously and horrifically illuminate the lowest underbelly of show business. These works endure in the Fantagraphics collections ANY RESEMBLANCE TO PERSONS LIVING OR DEAD and WARTS AND ALL. In 2006, Josh returned to work with his former employer, SCREW magazine founder turned homeless crank Al Goldstein, on the latter’s memoir I, GOLDSTEIN: MY SCREWED LIFE. Josh has been the subject of a documentary titled BLACKS AND JEWS (2003), and a movie adaptation of TALES OF TIMES SQUARE is currently filming.
 
The evening will be hosted by MIKE McPADDEN whose career highlights include: MRSKIN.COM (Editorial Director), HUSTLER, Entertainment Editor (1993-1995) & Contributing Editor (1992-2006), SCREW Contributing Writer (1993-1999), and HAPPYLAND, Editor and Publisher (1991-2001)