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New Stuff This Week
Sugar Booger #3 by Kevin Scalzo (Busybody Books) $8.95 – WHAT, a new Sugar Booger? Quimby’s favorite big blue purveyor of sweet snot returns! S.B. stumbles into the big city and gets mixed up in an onslaught of hapless Sof’ Boy-esque hijinx and laffs. -EFZines (also see DIY section below his week for DIY zines)
zines from Carrie: Transphobia: Lets Stop It and My Aim Is True #7 Crushing ($1.00 each)
What a Beautiful Face: A Neutral Milk Hotel Fanzine by K. Johnson $4.00
One Way Ticket #7 Lucky Number Seven by J $4.00
Interstate Highway System (Simple History Series #11) by J. Gerlach $4.00
Atomic Elbow #4 $5.00
D Tuned #3 Nov 12 Nevermind by Danica Favorito $2.50
Last Night at the Casino #4 Jan 13 by Billy $3.00
Incandescent #2 Magic Hour a Color Film Zine by Michael Cardiello et al. $14.00
Cowans Gap #4 Sum 12 by Nate East $4.00
Elizabeth Rust #1 $3.00
Debris #1 by Claire Mirocha $4.00 – Swatches of lovely vintage fabric frame Mirocha’s fine twine-line drawings. A real eye-warmer. -EF
Din #1 A Line Up by Claire Mirocha $3.00 – An inquiry into a certain batch of essays with accompanying drawings of bright plastic. -EF
Think About the Bubbles #1 and #2 by Joyce Hatton
Super Trooper #4-6 by Angela RobertComics & Comix
Fantastic Four by Sam Spina $5.00
Fugue #3 a Family in Three Parts by Beth Hetland $6.00
Monday Suicide #1 by Gabriel Corbera $6.00
Extinction 65 Mya a Musical Saga by Zandra Vlahakis $1.00
Crust Dog #3 by Andrew Sorge $4.50
Spinadoodles #3 The Third Year by Sam Spina $7.00 – Hilarious. For lovers of Julia Wertz and sometimes JK’s American Elf comics.
Drawdoers Best American Comics 2013 by Jon Drawdoer $2.00
Jerrys Journal vol 2 by Neil Jam $5.00
Reich #9 by Elijah J. Brubaker (Sparkplug) $5.00
Mr Wolf #1 by Aron Nels Steinke $5.00Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Dear Beloved Stranger by Dino Pai (Top Shelf) $19.95
Aya Love in Yop City by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie (D&Q) $24.95
Hellraisers: A Graphic Biography of Richard Burton, Peter O’Toole, Richard Harris and Oliver Reed by Robert Sellers and Jake (Self Made Hero) $22.95
Global Frequency by Warren Ellis et al. $19.99
Treasury of Victorian Murder Compendium by Rick Geary $24.99 – Includes Jack the Ripper, Fatal Bullet and Beast of Chicago.
Big Plans: The Collected Mini Comics and More by Aron Nels Steinke $18.00Art & Design
The Art of Punk Illustrated History of Punk Rock Design by Russ Bestley and Alex Ogg $40.00
Frank R. Paul, The Dean of Science-Fiction Illustration by Jerry Weist et al. $29.99
Field Studies Book by Aiden Koch (Floating World Comics) $12.00
Gentle Carmel Into the Black Dumb by Brian Schrank $14.00Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
The Secret History of the Reptilians: Pervasive Presence of the Serpent in Human History, Religion and Alien Mythos by Scott Alan Roberts (New Page) $16.99
No Regrets: A Rock n Roll Memoir by Ace Frehley $16.00
Awkward Merit Badges Sticker Book by Jeff Wysaski $7.95
This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl by Paul Brannigan $16.99 – Now in soft cover.
Poseur: A Memoir of Downtown New York City in the 90s by Marc Spitz $15.99
Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology by Alexis Madrigal $17.50
In My Home There Is No More Sorrow: Ten Days In Rwanda by Rick Bass (McSweeneys) $13.00Politics & Revolution
World As It Is Dispatches: On the Myth of Human Progress by Chris Hedges $16.99DIY
Make It Last: Prolonging and Preserving the Things We Love by Raleigh Briggs (Microcosm) $9.95
How to Make a Zine (For Grade School Kids) by Carrie $2.00
DIY zines by Rachael McHan:
Plain Living #1 Making Spoons by Hand, Making Your Own Drinking Glasses, Brewing Kombucha for Beginners
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How To Manual for Wood Burning (Also Known as Pyrography or Fire Needle Emroidery)Fiction
Nabokrossvords: Select Puzzles from the Russian Emigre Newspaper Rul 1924-1926 by Joseph Clayton Mills with Nabokov and friends $18.00 – Nabokov brought crosswords to Russia? Really? Mmmmm…
The Safety of Objects by AM Homes $15.00
Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan $14.95Magazines
Spheres #1 In What Spheres Do We Live In? by Melanie Bonajo and Phillippe Karrer $25.00
Dwell Mar 13 $5.99
3×3 vol 7 #2 #20 the Magazine of Contemporary Illustration $22.00
ArtForum Feb 13 $10.00
Frieze #152 Jan Feb 13 $10.00
Creative Review Jan 13 $14.99
True Crime Jan 13 $8.99
Ponystep #4 $34.99
Man About Town #11 Fall 12 Win 13 $15.99
Man of the World #2 $16.00
Decibel #101 Mar 13 $4.95
Little White Lies #45 $12.99
SSLM vol 16 Dec 12 Jan 13 Same Sex Life Magazine $5.00
Upping The Anti #14 Journal of Theory and Action $10.00
Monocle vol 6 #60 Feb 13 $12.00
Tattoo Collection #54 $7.75Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet #28 Jan 13 (Small Beer Press) $5.00 – The latest issue of LCRW features magic, killing curses, broken lands and broken lands, a wandering octopus, a robot on the run, invisibility, neighbors, and The Book of Judgment.
Brick #90 Win 13 A Literary Journal $15.00
A to Z of the Fantastic City by Hal Duncan (Small Beer Press) $10.00 – An Italo Calvino-style survey of utopic terrains, fabulously illustrated with a Denslow-inspired Victorian flourish by Eric Schaller. -EF
Parts of the Passion by Samuel Nathan Breslin $1.00
chap books from the St. Bernard Collective: Chalk, ChurnSexy Sexy
Sudden Sex 69 Sultry Short Stories by Alison Tyler $15.95
Housewives at Play Hanky Spanky by Rebecca (Eros) $9.99Sex Guides & Culture
Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure by Charlie Glickman PhD $17.95
The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure by Tristan Taormino et al. (Feminist Press) $22.95 -
Poet Carrie McGath Reads From Ohio Lonely 3/2
In Carrie McGath’s new book, Ohio Lonely, a self-published chapbook of poems and accompanying photo-collge works. “This book is my version of a genealogy including photographs I have collaged to express my memories and impressions of family members I have met or never got to meet.”
Poet Alexander Long, author of Still Life, writes of Ohio Lonely:
“Don’t mistake Carrie McGath’s project in Ohio Lonely as nostalgic in a pejoratively clichéd way, a naïve and dishonest looking back where every lost family member is steeped in sugary sepia. No. McGath doesn’t just understand what nostalgia, literally, means: the ache for that which is ours. Her nostalgia is marrow-deep. “I look for the woman inside of me through photos…”, she writes in one poem. Nothing more indelible than that manic stasis of the elegiac gaze. Yes, indeed. McGath’s poems fade not away. Thank God.”
Saturday, March 2nd, 7pm – Free Event
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Peter Sotos & Publisher Chip Smith Discuss Controversy in Publishing 3/23
Marking the roughly simultaneous re-release of Peter Sotos’ Tool and Mine, Sotos will appear at Quimby’s Bookstore with his publisher Nine-Banded Books founder, Chip Smith, to discuss the continuing role of independent publishers in curating controversial and overlooked literature.
“Peter Sotos is one of those rare writers who can say, ‘The words I write are me,’ or at least as close as anyone can come to communicating who they are in words.” –Thomas Ligotti, author of The Conspiracy against the Human Race
“For this latter-day homo sacer, wounds are not to be healed but poked and worried until they bleed. Sotos is literature’s outcast, carrying stigma like a rat carries plague.” –Mikita Brottman, author of Thirteen Girls
“…among the most important writing being done today.”
–Dennis Cooper, author of The Marbled SwarmPeter Sotos is a Chicago-born writer whose work focuses on criminal psychology, sexual abjection, and the myriad aspects of pornography. (He was also an early member of the noise group Whitehouse.) Noted his unique literary style and his frank and insightful engagement with deeply disturbing subjects, Sotos’ writings are considered by many to stand as oblique social criticism. Sotos is the author of 11 published novels, including Index, Tick, Lordotics, Comfort and Critique, and Selfish, Little: The Annotated Lesley Ann Downey. He is also the editor of the Pure Filth, an annotated collection transcripts culled from the underground pornography of the late Jamie Gillis. Sotos’ writing has appeared in ANSWER Me!, Apocalypse Culture II, Funeral Party, and Ritual Sex.
And oh yeah, he often comes in to Quimby’s (always wearing a long coat) with records he bought around the corner at Reckless Records. One time it was a greatest hits from The Smiths, prompting us to fun of him.
For more info: ninebandedbooks.com and quimbys.com
Sat, March 23rd, 7pm – Free Event
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February Quimby's Newsletter
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Quimby's Podcast Episode #7 With Authors Adam Levin & Tim Kinsella
Quimby’s Podcast Episode #7 With Authors Adam Levin & Tim Kinsella is now available for your listening pleasure. Adam you might know from his books Hot Pink and The Instructions Tim you might know from his book The Karaoke Singer’s Guide to Self-Defense, or because he’s in bands like Joan of Arc and Cap’n Jazz (among others). Adam and Tim did an event here. Then we conned them into talking to us about their work and each other, while trapped in the mysterious Quimby’s basement. You can listen to the podcast in a variety of places like finding it on I-Tunes, or download it or even stream it, with links at the the Quimby’s podbean site here.
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New Stuff This Week
Public Life of Bees by Jessica Campbell (Oily Comics) $1.00 – Honey, hive got a feelin’ the whole town will bee buzzin’ about this new lil zzzzzzzzine from Jessica Campbell! -EFZines & Zine-Related
Alamo Igloo #11 by Keith G. Herzik $5.00
I Was Born With a Plastic Spoon in my Mouth by KE Bleier $5.00
Basic Paper Airplane #6 by Joshua James Amberson $3.00
Doom Spiral #5 Jan 13 by P. and Spaz $3.00
Vagina the Zine #7 Win 13 $4.00Comics & Comix
Gray is Not a Color: True Tales From the Basement of the Mutter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by Sally Madden $5.00
Accidental Salad by Joe Decie $7.99
RL Rosalie Lightning Comic by Tom Hart $4.00
86d vol 1 #1 $10.00
Boots and Pup #1 $2.99
Lights Please by Budnik $2.00
Sock by Box Brown $3.00
Lou #9 by Melissa Mendes (Oily Comics) $1.00
End of the Fucking World #14 by Charles Forsman $1.00
Blood Visions Part 1 by Zach Worton $1.00
Moose #14 by Max De Rodrigues (Oily Comics) $1.00
Islands #2 Brown Cover by Brendan Monroe $8.00Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Tales Designed to Thrizzle vol 2 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Grammar of Rock: Art and Artlessness in 20th Century Pop Lyrics by Alexander Theroux (Fantagraphics) $28.99
Freddie Stories by Lynda Barry (D&Q) $19.95 – Reprinted in gorgeous hardcover.
Medusa by Kacy McKinney and Milissa Orzolek $17.00
Books of Magic Deluxe Edition by Neil Gaiman et al. $24.99
Feminism In the Worlds of Neil Gaiman: Essays On the Comics, Poetry and Prose by Tara Prescott et al. (McFarland) $35.00Art & Design Books
Sheetz by Joe Roarty $20.00
Black Antoinette: The Work of Olaf Hajek (DGV) $60.00
Curiosity and Method:Ten Years of Cabinet Magazine $40.00
Metalheads: The Global Brotherhood by Jorg Bruggeman (DGV) $60.00
Mati and the Music: 52 Record Covers 1955-2005 A Book About Mati Klarwein $45.00Fiction
Umbrella by Will Self $25.00
Pharmacists Mate and 8 by Amy Fusselman (McSweeneys) $14.00 – Two books in one!
Hot Pink by Adam Levin (McSweeneys) $14.00 – Don’t miss Hot Pink author Adam Levin on the most recent episode of the Quimby’s Podcast.
Last Girlfriend on Earth and Other Love Stories by Simon Rich $19.99 – This author is hilarious. For reals.
Tenth of December by George Saunders $26.00
Good Kids by Benjamin Nugent $23.00Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
Lydia Lunch Interviews (Re/Search) $9.99 – Jump to the top of my winter reading list! -EF
Henry Rollins Interview (Re/Search) $9.99 – “…he got a Black Flag tattoo and some man who didn’t know who that was at some truck stop said, “Are you covering up your ex-wife’s name?” And he was like, “This is my ex-wife’s name.” And I was like “Oh damn, that’s what I’m talkin’ about.””
Full Service: My Adventures In Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars by Scotty Bowers and Lionel Friedberg $16.00
East Hill Farm: Seasons with Allen Ginsberg by Gordon Ball (Counterpoint) $18.95
Drinking With Men: A Memoir by Rosie Schaap $26.95
Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures by Edward Ball $29.95
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sean Kean $14.99
Miracles of Life: Shangai to Shepperton: An Autobiography by JG Ballard $25.95
Kingdom Come by JG Ballard $15.95Druuuuuuuuugs
Cannabis Sativa vol 2 Essential Guide to the Worlds Finest Marijuana Strains by ST Oner and Mel Thomas (Green Candy Press) $20.00
Entheogens: Myth and Human Consciousness by Carl AP Ruck et al. (Ronin) $16.95Magazines
Black Velvet #75 $9.00
Razorcake #72 $4.00
Mojo #231 Feb 13 $9.99
Hyphen #26 Spr 13 $7.95Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
The Believer #96 $8.00
Literary Review vol 55 #4 Fall 12 $8.00
Specimen Magazine #4 $6.00
Midwestern Gothic #8 Win 13 $12.00
St Petersburg Review vols 4 and 5 $20.00
Ninth Letter vol 9 #2 Fall Win 12 13 $14.95
Flower and the Plough by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright $8.00Politics & Revolution
Lucy Parsons: An American Revolutionary by Carolyn Ashbaugh (Haymarket) $16.00
Mexican Revolution: A Short History 1910-1920 by Stuart Easterling (Haymarket) $14.00
Occupy the Future by David B. Grusky et al. (MIT/Boston Review) $14.95
It’s No Good: poems / essays / actions by Kirill Medvedev (NPlusOne/Ugly Duckling Press) $16.00 – The author is a young Russian poet who in 2003 rejected the Moscow literary world for its corruption and irrelevance. In the years since, he has protested the Putin regime on the streets of Moscow, written long essays about the post-Soviet intelligentsia, and taken his poetry in new directions.
Adventures of Ed Tuttle, Associate Justice and Other Stories by Jay Wexler $10.00 – Don’t miss author Jay Wexler here at Quimby’s on March 30th! Stay posted to Quimbys.com for info. We also have his book Odd Clauses: Understanding Constitution Through 10 of Its Most Curious Provisions.Gender Studies, Sex Guides & Culture
Queering Anarchism Addressing and Undressing Power And Desire by CB Daring et al. (AK Press) $19.95
The Feminine Mystique: 50 Years by BEtty Friedan $25.95Sexy Sexy
Candid: How Do You Expose Yourself? by Benji Bright (Queer Young Cowboys) $5.99 – Ten anonymous interviews regarding gays and sex – a compulsive read in a satisfyingly voyeuristic pocket-paperback format.
Adult Movie Superstars vol 2 Eurozone Photos by Jack Hunter (Wet Angel) $24.95
The Big Book of Bondage Sexy Tales of Erotic Restraint by Alison Tyler (Cleis) $15.95
Handbook vol 7 #1 2013 $6.00Other Stuff
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Justin Maurer Reads From Seventeen Television with Cassandra Troyan and Dave Roche 2/19
In Justin Maurer’s new book Seventeen Television (Vol 1 Brooklyn), these mostly true stories ebb, flow and burn through heart breaking and illuminating moments in his life. Seven humor-filled tales delve into family crisis, dead-end jobs and international exploits. Through these lucid stories and their incendiary cast of characters, we follow him into equally dangerous and touching territory.
The work of Justin Maurer has been featured in such places as: The L.A. Record, Color Magazine, The Rumpus, Faster Times, Vice Spain, Maximumrocknroll, Razorcake and Vol 1. Brooklyn. He has been featured on podcasts and radio shows such as Life Before Wartime (KBOO), Cherry Blossom Clinic (WFMU) and Skid Row Radio. His first book, Don’t Take Your Life (Future Tense Books) received much critical acclaim. He has recorded and toured extensively with his punk bands Clorox Girls, Suspect Parts, LA Drugz and Maniac. He works and lives in Los Angeles.
Cassandra Troyan is an artist, writer, and filmmaker who is interested in getting blunted. She is the author of THRONE OF BLOOD (Solar Luxuriance 2013), and forthcoming in Fall 2013, The Things We Embody Are The Things We Destroy (Tiny Hardcore Press 2013). She curates the reading and performance series EAR EATER in Chicago, IL where she currently lives and works.
Dave Roche is the author of On Subbing and the zine About My Disappearance (among other things).
For more info:
Tues, Feb 19th, 7pm – Free Event
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New Stuff This Week
Lower East Side Librarian & Friends – Menstruate: Librarians and Archivists Keep the Information Flowing by Jenna Freedman $2.00Zines
Abservd Magazine vol 1 #4 $4.49
Zine Centro #2 $1.00
zines from the Trans Oral History Project Distro: Tracing This Body and New Flesh New Struggle by Michelle ‘Brien, Full Metal Faggot #4 $3.00
Brainscan #30 by Alex Wrekk $3.00Comics & Comix
Molecules #1 by Michael DeForge $3.00
Smoke Signal #14 (Desert Island) $5.00
Maakies Newspaper #1 by Tony Millionaire (Desert Island) $6.00
Arrete Cest Ici Lempire de la Mort #1 by Simon Hanselmann $3.00
Greys #1 by Olivier Schrauwen $8.00
Naaburger by Aapo Rapi $17.50
Borg Tron #11 by Lesot Lehdet $12.10
Why Is my Easy Easy Life so Hard? by Dina Kelberman (HicandHoc) $8.00
Ystava Friend by Roope Eronen $5.00
Paparoad by Jyrki Heikkinen $7.50
Italo Sport by Tommi Musturi $5.00
Distance Mover #7 by Patrick Kyle (Mother Books) $5.00
Pixel Dogs Soft Bark #1 the First 50 Strips by Zach Hazard Vaupen $12.00
Snake Oil #8 by Charles Forsman $7.00
Cyber Surfer #1 by Alex Schubert $5.00
If You Got It You Got It #1 by Rand Renfrow $3.00
Nightcrawlers #1 by John F. Malta $3.00
Arrete Cest Ici Lempire de la Mort #1 by Simon Hanselmann $3.00
Basketball Comic #1 by Michael DeForge et al. $4.00
Qviet #1 by Andrew Burkholder $6.00
Demon Dust #14 Jan 13 by Bernie McGovern $2.00Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Sad Sex Book by Heather Bejamin $10.00
Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir by Nicole J. Georges $16.95 – Everybody in Nicole’s life lied to her about who her father really was her whole life. She calls Dr. Laura. What does Dr. Laura tell her (besides the evils of shacking up)? Guess you’ll have to read it to find out.
Fables vol 18 Cubs in Toyland by Bill Willingham et al. $16.99
Comics About Cartoonists: Stories About the World’s Oddest Profession by Craig Yoe et al. $39.99
X Lehti 2010 XXX by Laja Aijala $36.70
One Trick Rip Off and Deep Cuts by Paul Pope $29.99 – In color and hardcover. Oooo la la.Fiction
Cannon Fodder or the Secret Lives of Henchmen by Kyle Decker $12.00
Persona Non Grata by Stefanie Quinn Jackson $19.95Sexy
Original Plumbing #10 $8.00Magazines
Bust Feb Mar 13 $5.99
Tape Op #93 Jan Feb 13 $4.95
Abservd Magazine vol 1 #4 $4.49
Wire Jan 13 #347 $9.99
Bizarre #197 Feb 13 $10.50
Make vol 33 $14.99
High Times Mar 13 $5.99
Mother Earth News #256 Feb Mar 13 $5.99
Internationalism #163 Nov 12 Apr 13 $1.00
Harpers Magazine Feb 13 $6.99Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
There Exists by Cynthia Spencer and Chelsea Tadeyeske $4.00
Feel and Beat Again by Jim Davis $10.00
The Iowa Review vol 42 #3 Win 13 $9.95
North Chicago Review #1 $10.00Kids
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Geneviève Castrée Presents & Signs Susceptible 2/16
Goglu is a daydreamer with a young working mother, a disengaged stepfather, and a father who lives five thousand miles away. Drawing, punk rock, and the promise of true independence guide Goglu to adulthood while her home’s daily chaos inevitably shapes her identity. Susceptible is a devastating graphic novel debut by Geneviève Castrée about the heartbreaking loss of innocence when a child is forced to be the adult among grownups
Praise for Geneviève Castrée:
“With mesmerizing honesty Castrée resurrects the obscenely disorienting turning points of a childhood, the ones that haunt a person for a lifetime. After reading the last page I closed the book and wept a little bit about its simple, perfect ending.” –Miranda July,authorofitchoosesyouand noonebelongsheremorethanyou
“[Castrée] offers three connected minimalist fables dreamily portraying a young woman’s reactions to depression, domesticity, and mother hood in delicate watercolors that, thanks largely to her keen graphic skills, made them whimsical without being cloying.” –Booklist
“[Castrée’s work], illustrated in a delicately watercolored style that suggests Richard Scarry in the throes of an Edward Gorey obsession, is an episodic
meditation on love, belonging, and personal identity. The visual metaphors for depression and home will break your heart; the care taken with their rendering will join the broken pieces back together on every page.” —The Austin Chronicle
GENEVIÈVE CASTRÉE was born in Quebec. She has been drawing since the age of two. Castrée lives and works in the Pacific Northwest, where she makes visual art, and records and plays music under the name Ô PAON.
For more info, see quimbys.com
Preview the book here.Sat Feb 16th, 7pm – Free Event
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Briefly Knocked Unconscious By A Low-Flying Duck Event 2/22
Quimby’s welcomes Patricia Ann McNair, J.C. Aevaliotis, and Eric May, reading from Briefly Knocked Unconscious By A Low-Flying Duck
In 2nd Story’s new essay anthology Briefly Knocked Unconscious By A Low-Flying Duck (Elephant Rock Books), the twenty-three contributors unveil a wide range of topics through their personal narratives. We’ve got race relations in Roger’s Park, teaching kids about Dr. King, a gay man falling in love with a high school girl in Godspell, sex clubs in Amsterdam, murder in Rockford, death at Sea World Ohio, shower dances with drag queens, Xena Warrior princess, kiss-off letter to major universities, Sam Weller getting propositioned by a porn star two weeks after his wedding, fairies appearing in backyards, a guy trying to replicate Thoreau’s Walden cabin, chaos at The United Skates of America, slaying the great dragon of addiction, a Korean girl realizing her identity as she puts on eye shadow for the first time, and the life and death nature of teaching creative writing. The uniqueness of this anthology lies within the fact that each story was once performed upon a stage before an audience.
“…what a treat, the genre, the writers, and the Chicagoness of it all. As we said, sometimes things come to you, and they’re like a gift, and this collection is a gift, and it will linger, so please do take a look, because it just might change your life.” -Ben Tanzer, This Blog Will Change Your Life
PATRICIA ANN McNAIR is the author of The Temple of Air, a finalist for the Society of Midland Authors Best Book Award and Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award. She’s received four Illinois Arts Council Awards and was nominated for the Carnegie Foundation US Professor of the Year. McNair teaches in Columbia College Chicago’s Fiction Writing Department.
JC AEVALIOTIS is a Chicago-based writer and performer who holds a master’s degree in religion and theater from Yale Divinity School. He has performed with various Second City-affiliated ensembles and several live-lit outfits in Chicago, and his writing has been seen in Playboy and heard on Chicago NPR affiliate WBEZ.
ERIC CHARLES MAY is an associate professor in the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago and a former reporter for The Washington Post. His fiction has appeared in Fish Stories and F Magazine. In addition to Post reporting, his nonfiction has appeared in Sport Literate and the Chicago Tribune.
For more information about 2nd Story please visit www.2ndstory.com
For more info visit www.erpmedia.net/books/Briefly.htmlFriday, February 22, 7pm – Free Event
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/411951955556254/?ref=2