Cindy St. John and Julie Strand

Published on December 22, 2009 0 Comments
Jan ’10
15
7:00 pm

Dancing girl press poets  Cindy St. John (People in Love Will Read this Book Differently) and Julie Strand (The Mae West Defense) will read from their work.

Cindy St. John lives in Austin, TX.   Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Southern Review, Broadsidedpress.org and The Florida Review.

Julie Strand lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and is the Education Coordinator at Woodland Pattern Book Center. Her poetry has appeared in Wicked Alice, Arsenic Lobster, WOMB Poetry, Rock Heals (A Narrow House Weekly) and others.

The dancing girl press chapbook series was founded in 2004 to publish and promote the work of women poets and artists through chapbooks, journals, book arts projects, and anthologies. Spawned by the online zine wicked alice, dgp seeks to publish work that bridges the gaps between schools and poetic techniques–work that’s fresh, innovative, and exciting. The press has published over 50 titles by emerging women poets in delectable handmade editions.

For more info: http://www.dancinggirlpress.com

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So You Think You Have Nerves of Steel? Series Launch

Published on December 22, 2009 0 Comments
Jan ’10
14
7:00 pm

The first in what will be a regular monthly lit series from the folks at THE2NDHAND (the2ndhand.com), wherein one featured writer a month riffs on the question in the reading’s title in whatever manner he or she deems appropriate. For this first installment, both THE2NDHAND and Chicago-performance-scene stalwarts Chris Bower and Jill Summers will be riffing with nerves of steel. They’ll be joined by the event’s host janitor Harold Ray (aka ACM fiction editor and THE2NDHAND coeditor Jacob Knabb), Requited Journal managing editor Amanda Marbais and a new issue of broadsheet.

ABOUT THE FEATURED READERS: Chris Bower has recently seen staging of several of his dramas, including the one-act Notes to Molly at SAIC and Little Boy Needs Ride as part of the Happy Family series at Viaduct Theater. He is one of the founders of the occasional Ray’s Tap reading series and has performed widely in Chicago and elsewhere. About Notes to Molly, part of a program of three one-acts, the Chicago Theater blog had this to say, “Bower deals the most devastating realism of all these pieces. Based on his short story by the same name, the play etches an indelible portrait of a dead-end alcoholic couple and the psychological forces that barely keep them hanging on, to themselves and to life. It is an intensely realized work…” THE2NDHAND repeat performer and writer Jill Summers’ audio fiction has been featured on Chicago Public Radio, via the Third Coast International Audio Festival, and with New Adventures in Sound Art. Her work has appeared in many magazines, and she’s authored three collections of audio shorts She was Chicago’s reigning Opium magazine Literary Death Match Champ from 5/23/09 – 7/31/09, whereupon THE2NDHAND’s entry in the LDM held at the 2009 Chicago Printers Ball, Spencer Dew, took the crown.

For more info: http://www.the2ndhand.com

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Twitter Updates for 2009-12-19

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New Stuff

Published on December 19, 2009 0 Comments

Happy hols!

HoboBoho

Zines

Inner Swine vol 15 #3 and #4 $2.00

Humble Humdrum Cotton Frock #1 $2.50

Fae Says by Ben Bertin $5.00

Sex Gender Identity Orientation and Discrimination by Dan Copulsky $.10

Plastic Knife #3 $2.00

Arty Books

Love is a Certain Kind of Flower by Stephanie Brooks (Green Lantern) $10.00

Beautiful Decay Book 2 What A Mess $20.00

British Design 2010 Branding and Graphic Design Packaging Design New Media (Bis) $59.00

Fiction

Mojo Snake Minuet by John Litweiler $15.00

Fascia by Ashley Donielle Murray (Green Lantern Press) $20.00

So Much Better by Terri Griffith (Greeen Lantern Press) $20.00

Graphic Novels

Gahan Wilson Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons by Gahan Wilson (Fantagraphics) $125.00

Art of Ditko, ed. by Craig Yoe (IDW) $29.99

Crossing the Empty Quarter and Other Stories by Carol Swain (Dark Horse) $24.95

One Model Nation TPB by Allbriton Taylor and var. (Image) $17.99

Footnotes In Gaza by Joe Sacco (Met) $29.95

Comics, Comix, Mini-Comix:

Oubliette the Pyramid by Kenan Rubenstein $1.00

Talk Nerdy to Me by Maris Wicks $4.00

Tall Poppy by Rob Steinberg $3.50

Mags and Lit Journals:

Wallpaper Jan 2010 $9.50

Bizarre #157 $10.50

Juxtapoz #108 Jan 10 $5.99

Scootering #282 $7.99

Literary Review vol 53 #1 $7.00

Concisely Magazine of Short Prose #1 $3.00

First Line vol 11 #4 Win 09 $3.00

Tattoo Society #19 $7.99

Chap Books

Six By Six #19 Bite Off The Head $5.00

Effigy #2 by Matt Whispers $3.00

Other Stuff:

Soup and Bread Cookbook, ed. by Martha Bayne and var. $20.00 – A companion to the Hideout soup events!

Grimmer Tales A Wicked Collection of Happily Never After Stories by Erik Bergstrom (Plume) $16.00

Psychick Bible Thee Book and DVD w/ Genesis Breyer Porridge (Feral House) $69.00

Assorted t-shirts designed by John Campbell of Pictures For Sad Children fame. $18.00

And don’t forget, until Jan 1st, if you spend $75.00 or more in one stop in the store, you get a free Quimby’s totebag!

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Top 10 Last Week

Published on December 15, 2009 0 Comments

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This is for the second week of December 2009.

1. Slingshot Planner 2009 Small Size (Slingshot Collective) $6.00

2. Cometbus #53 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00

3. Revive Nikki McClure 2010 Calendar $16.00

4. Granta #108 The Special Chicago Issue $16.99

5. Slingshot Planner 2009 Large Size (Slingshot Collective) $12.00

6.  Pinstriped Bloodbath, ed. by Jeff Zwirek $8.00

7. Bldg Blog Book by Geoff Manaugh (Chronicle) $29.95

8. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) $14.00

9. Burn Collector #14 by Al Burian $8.00

10. 2010 Gear Worms Calendar by Leif Goldberg $24.00