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Nikki Pill reads from Singing and Then

Published on April 10, 2004 0 Comments
Apr ’04
10
12:00 am

Nikki Pill reads from her novel Singing and Then at Quimby?s
March 27th 7:00PM
 
A unique and experimental novel, Singing, and Then explores the realms of Earth, Heaven and Hell from the perspective of angels, mortal men and the Prince of Lies himself.
 
A new angel inexplicably appears in Heaven. At the same time all the souls in Heaven, Hell and Earth disappear. While Heaven searches for the lost souls, two damaged spirits wander the Earth. Angels, spirits and mortal men combine forces in a surprising chain of events. They uncover an ugly conspiracy: innocent angels imprisoned, a mysterious illness that devours those closest to God, and a plot to start a second war between Heaven and Hell.
 
Nikki M. Pill graduated from Lake Forest College with a bachelors’ degree in English and Philosophy. She names Jeanette Winterson, William Faulkner, Steven Brust, and Neil Gaiman as her biggest literary influences, and hopes that all the Sartre she read isn\’t counteracting them too much. Nikki is also widely known and admired as the Vipe Girl, creator of Vipe.org, a feminist web site that critiques our culture’s unrealistic beauty standards.
 
Singing and Then is her first published novel, and she is currently working on her second, as well as collaborating on a screenplay with the inimitable Bob Cappel.
 
More info is at: www.singingandthen.com

Join Matthew Zapruder, Matt Rohrer and Joshua Beckman for a night of poetry

Published on April 8, 2004 0 Comments
Apr ’04
8
12:00 am

The Danny’s Reading Series welcomes
Poets Matthew Zapruder, Matt Rohrer and Joshua Beckman to Quimby’s for a night of poetry
Friday April 16th 8PM
 
Matthew Zapruder is the author of American Linden, winner of the 2001 Tupelo Press Editors’ Prize. Matt Rohrer is the author of Hummock in the Malookas (winner National Poetry Series, published by Norton), Satellite (Verse Press) and the forthcoming A Green Light (Verse Press); he is the poetry editor of Fence. Joshua Beckman is the author of Things Are Happening (winner of the APR Honickman Award, published by Copper Canyon), Something I Expected to be Different (Verse Press) and the forthcoming Your Time Has Come (Verse Press). Rohrer and Beckman are also the authors of a collaborative book of poems, Nice Hat: Thanks (Verse Press), as well as an accompanying compact disk, Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty (Verse Press).
 
This reading is part of the midwest tour to support the new books from Matt Roher and Joshua Beckman. They will also sign copies of their books.
 
More info is at:www.versepress.orgwww.tupelopress.org

The Magical Breasts of Britney Spears & Monster Fashion

Published on April 5, 2004 0 Comments
Apr ’04
5
12:00 am

Jarret Keene, poet, Monster FashionRyan G. Van Cleave, poet, The Magical Breasts of Britney SpearsSeth Flynn Barkan, poet, Blue Wizard Is About to Die!Friday March 26th 7:30PM
 
Jarret Keene & Ryan G. Van Cleave read from their new poetry collections
Pop-culture poets Jarret Keene (Monster Fashion) and Ryan G. Van Cleave return to Quimby’s to read from their latest poetry collections. Ryan G. Van Cleave’s, new collection is entitled The Magical Breasts of Britney Spears. This evening will also feature Seth Flynn Barkan author of the new book of videogame poetry, Blue Wizard
Is About to Die!
 
Check out:
www.manicdpress.comwww.jarretkeene.comwww.ryangvancleave.com

Paul Hornschemeier celebrates the release of Forlorn Funnies #5 with animated videos

Published on March 27, 2004 0 Comments
Mar ’04
27
12:00 am

Comics artist Paul Hornschemeier, the author of Mother Come Home,
celebrates the release of Forlorn Funnies #5 with animated videos at Quimby?s.
Friday March 19th 8PM
 
Paul Hornschemeier is the creator of the Harvey, Ignatz, and Eisner nominated Forlorn Funnies, as well as the recently published “Mother, Come Home” collection from Dark Horse. Reared in a small farming town in southern Ohio, Paul now lives and works in Chicago. His work has also appeared in the Chicago Reader, Alarm, Sound Collector Audio Review, Friction, The Common Review, Project Telstar, Autobiographix, as well as various CD and 7″ covers and posters.
 
For this event there will be a showing of short animated videos based on Paul’s cartoons, followed by a brief question and answer session. The event will conclude with Paul signing his collection, Mother, Come Home, as well as the new 80-page Forlorn Funnies 5, which makes its debut at the beginning of March.

Soft Skull & FC2 authors read

Published on March 26, 2004 0 Comments
Mar ’04
26
12:00 am

Soft Skull & FC2 authors read Thursday March 25th 7:30PM
 
An evening of readings featuring:Ben Greenman, Daniel Nester and Clayton Eshleman & FC2 Authors
further details tba
 
Soft Skull Authors:
Ben Greenman is an editor at The New Yorker; his work has appeared there as well as in Nerve, McSweeneys, The Paris Review, Mississippi Review, Elysian Fields, and elsewhere. Most recently his work appeared in the acclaimed McAdam/Cage anthology Politically Inspired. He has ghostwritten for Gene Simmons and Simon Cowell, amongst others, and once won a car in a rock ?n? roll trivia bowl. Born in Chicago, he grew up in Florida and now lives in Brooklyn, NY.
 
Daniel Nester is a poet, editor, and teacher who lives in Brooklyn, NY. His work has appeared in such journals as Open City, Nerve, Mississippi Review, and in The Best American Poetry2003. He is the editor in chief of the online literary journal Unpleasant Event Schedule , former editor in chief of La Petite Zine, and contributing editor of Painted Bride Quarterly.
 
Clayton Eshleman:
 
FC2 Authors:
Brian Evenson is the author of six books of fiction, most recently The Wavering Knife. He teaches Creative Writing at Brown University. He will be reading from “The Installation.”
 
Lucy Corin’s short stories have appeared in many literary journals, including Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and Fiction International, and in anthologies such as New Stories from the South: The Year’s
Best and FC2’s Chick-Lit2 (No Chic Vics). She will be reading from her first novel, Everyday
Psychokillers: A History for Girls.
 
A.B. West lives in Belgium, where she has worked with the avant-garde theater company, Th??tre Laboratoire Vicinal. She performed and collaborated on the original plays Tramp, Lunapark and Chaman Hooligan. She was the director and sole actress of the play “I” which toured worldwide. West has also been an agent, an editor with Wall Street Journal Europe, a free-lance translator and a copywriter. Wakenight Emporium has been accepted for publication in France as Figurations Lumi?res. She will be reading from Wakenight Emporium.
 
more info at http://fc2.org