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Mark Swartz to Read from H2O

Published on January 19, 2007 0 Comments
Jan ’07
19
12:00 am

Mark Swartz to Read from H2O,
His New Eco-Noir Novel set in Chicago.
Center for Neighborhood Technology?s Bill Eyring to Introduce the Reading
Friday, January 19, 7:00 p.m. Quimby?s (1854 W. North Avenue, Chicago)
 
Mark Swartz\\\’s new novel H2O is set in Chicago in the year 2020. With the entire world facing a dire shortage of drinkable water, filters and drains engineer Hayden Shivers stumbles upon a method for synthesizing fake water, but the new product may not be the miracle it?s cracked up to be.
 
??? H2O has its own trailer at http://www.softskull.com/files/h20_trailer.swf ???
 
?Swartz\\\’s shrewd, jittery, and noirishly atmospheric speculative tale about a bumbling antihero and dire environmental trauma brings an irreverent and parrying voice to ecofiction and casts a fractured light on follies petty and catastrophic.?
?Donna Seaman, Booklist
 
Mark Swartz?s second novel, the noirish eco-satire H2O, makes Davis Guggenheim?s film An Inconvenient Truth look like a feel-good summer romance?[ H2O is] a fast, fun, ominous read.?
?Time Out New York
 
?A short, sharp shock–a jab to the eyeball and brain, H2O by Mark Swartz is as telling commentary on our society now as Don DeLillo?s White Noise was in its time. Savagely precise, clever but not shallow, Swartz\\\’s writing lacerates even as it\\\’s deeply, disturbingly funny.?
 
-Jeff VanderMeer
 
Mark Swartz is the author of Instant Karma (City Lights, 2002). His writing has appeared in the Village Voice, The Believer, Bomb, Bookforum, Chicago Reader, and other publications. Originally from Chicago, he lives in Forest Hills, Queens, with his wife and daughter.
 
Bill Eyring is a Senior Engineer of the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT), an organization dedicated to showing urban communities locally and all across the country how to develop more sustainably. Bill manages CNT?s green infastructure projects that focus on managing stormwater naturally, reducing flooding risk, and improving water quality. More information at
www.cnt.org
 

Balaam The Lame, Radon Chong, Adolph Schnitzel and His Wife Mirriam

Published on January 18, 2007 0 Comments
Jan ’07
18
12:00 am

Jan 18th 7:30 PM
 
Balaam The Lame, Radon Chong, Adolph Schnitzel And His Wife Mirriam Present:
 
The Daniel And Daniel Show!
 
In this entertainment extravaganza, Daniel & Daniel will sacrifice Hake to The Porpoise-God, shine the light of The Mystical Mathematic Equation unto the mind of all mongoloids present (using the FOIL method) and manuever the facial muscles of any corpse in attendance, using techniques described in Raymond Roussel\’s \’Locus Solus.\’ All Set To Words And Music!
 
say what? for the night
Daniel Gleason = Paco P. Coltrane
Daniel Knox = Rock N\’ Ro

Zine Reading at Quimby?s!

Published on December 9, 2006 0 Comments
Dec ’06
9
12:00 am

Zine Reading at Quimby?s!Saturday, December 9th, 8:00 PMFREE
 
Featuring:
 
Matt Coppens- Writes zine Panic Attack and drinks too much cheap beer.
Visit www.mattcoppens.blogspot.com
 
Matt Gauck- Writes zine Next Stop Adventure and is restless as hell.
Visit www.thedreamerandthefool.com
 
Billy- Writes zine Proof I Exist and is an employee at Uncle Fun.
Visit www.iknowbilly.com
 
Andrew Mall- Writes zine Living Proof and has glasses and eats burritoes.
Visit www.atm4.net

D&Q PresentsAnders Nilsen,Gabrielle Bell &Kevin Huizenga

Published on December 7, 2006 0 Comments
Dec ’06
7
12:00 am

Thursday December 7th 7PM
FREEDrawn and Quaterly Presents Kevin Huizenga
Gabrielle Bell
Anders Nilsen
 

Drawn & Quarterly invites you to a signing and discussion with comic artists Gabrielle Bell, Anders Nilsen, and Kevin Huizenga
 
Gabrielle Bell was born in London, England, and lived there two years before moving back to Detroit, Michigan. Eventually she moved to San Francisco where she took art classes at San Francisco Community College. Gabrielle moved to New York and published, “When I’m Old and Other Stories” with Alternative Comics. She also contributed to several anthologies, and began the “Lucky” series, of which the third installment won an Ignatz for “Most Outstanding Minicomic” in 2003 and is now being collected and republished by Drawn & Quarterly. Her work can also be seen in the quarterly anthology “Mome” published by Fantagraphics and Drawn & Quarterly Showcase Book Four. Lucky is available now.
 
Anders Nilsen was born in rural Northern New Hampshire in 1973. Nilsen went to college at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, studying art and doing political work. A group of paintings had developed into an artists book called The Ballad of the Two Headed Boy and in 1997, still thinking he might be more fine artist than cartoonist, Nilsen started graduate school at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he dropped out shortly after the publication of Big Questions #3. He has received two Ignatz nominations for Big Questions #4 in 2002 as well as a Xeric and several grants from the City of Chicago to keep making comics. Nilsen is currently working on finishing Big Questions as well as a couple of further collections of strips from his sketchbooks. Big Questions #8 and Don?t Go Where I Can?t Follow were recently released.
 
Kevin Huizenga was born in 1977 in Harvey, IL and spent most of his childhood in South Holland, IL, near Chicago. He attended college in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and moved to St. Louis in 2000 where he lives and works. He began drawing comics in high school, xeroxing his first issue (with friends) at the neighborhood Jewel Osco in 1993. Since that time he’s made approximately 30 more. In 2001 the Comics Journal named him “Minimalism Cartoonist of the Year” and called #14 of his “Supermonster” mini-comic series “one of the best comics of any kind released in 2001.” Kevin?s newest title is called Curses

Modest Mouse: A Pretty Good Read by Alan Goldsher

Published on December 2, 2006 0 Comments
Dec ’06
2
12:00 am

Alan Goldsher Book Release Event forModest Mouse: A Pretty Good ReadSaturday, December 2nd, 8:00 PM
FREE
 
Alan Goldsher will read for his newest book \”MODEST MOUSE: A PRETTY GOOD READ\” The Unauthorized Biography of the Platinum Selling Indie Rock Band Modest Mouse. Unruly, antagonistic, and often downright depressing, Modest Mouse seemed like one of the most unlikely candidates for mainstream stardom. Yet the band has pulled themselves through arrests and allegations to earn platinum record sales and primetime television guest spots, and become one of indie rock\’s most surprising success stories.
 
Journalist Alan Goldsher uncovers the strange, little-known details of Modest Mouse\’s unlikely rise, chronicling the band\’s difficult decade-long career, from the bottom of the Washington State indie rock scene to the current success of their records and ongoing international tours. He also reveals the troubled background and fractured history of Isaac Brock, the difficult and often abrasive front man who has spent as much time avoiding the media as he has attempted to control it. Thoroughly researched, sharply funny, and filled with pictures and posters from every step of the band\’s career, this unauthorized bio is perfect for new and old fans looking for the band\’s little-known history.
 
Writer/musician Alan Goldsher is also the author of \”Hard Bop Academy: The Sidemen of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers\” and the music-themed novels \”Jam\” and \”The Record Haus\”. As a bassist, Goldsher has recorded with Janet Jackson, Cypress Hill, and Naughty by Nature; toured the world with Digable Planets; and performed at the 1994 Grammy Awards. He is a regular contributor to Bass Player. Alan lives and writes in Chicago.
Visit Alan at www.AlanGoldsher.com or www.Myspace.com/aprettygoodread.