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  • Nick Drnaso launches Sabrina on Thurs, May 24th, Interviewed by Jessica Campbell

    When Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, and outright lies. He reports to work every night in a bare, sterile fortress that serves as no protection from a situation that threatens the sanity of Teddy, his childhood friend and boyfriend of the missing woman. Sabrina’s grieving sister Sandra struggles to fill her days waiting in purgatory. After a videotape surfaces, we see devastation through a cinematic lens, as true tragedy is distorted when fringe thinkers and conspiracy theorists begin to interpret events to fit their own narratives.

    The follow-up to Nick Drnaso’s LA Times Book Prize winning Beverly, Sabrina depicts a modern world devoid of personal interaction and responsibility, where relationships are stripped of intimacy through glowing computer screens. An indictment of our modern state, Sabrina contemplates the dangers of a fake news climate. Timely and articulate, Drnaso’s graphic novel leaves you gutted, searching for meaning in the aftermath of disaster.

    At this event, Chicago-based cartoonist Jessica Campbell will interview Nick Drnaso. Her new book XTC69 is in stock now! In it, a commander with the same name as the author of the planet L8DZ N1T3 and her crew are searching for men to breed with when they discover the last human on Earth, the cryogenically frozen Jessica Campbell. With a new, but familiar crewmember, the search for men continues, but will it be worth it?

    “Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina is the best book—in any medium—I have read about our current moment. It is a masterpiece, beautifully written and drawn, possessing all the political power of polemic and yet simultaneously all the delicacy of truly great art. It scared me. I loved it.”—Zadie Smith

    Nick Drnaso was born in 1989 in Palos Hills, Illinois. His debut graphic novel, Beverly, received the LA Times Book prize for Best Graphic Novel. He has contributed to several comics anthologies, self-published a handful of comics, been nominated for three Ignatz Awards, and co-edited the second and third issue of Linework, Columbia College’s annual comic anthology. Drnaso lives in Chicago, where he works as a cartoonist and illustrator. 

    For more info:

    nickdrnaso.tumblr.com

    Julia Pohl-Miranda and Sruti Islam at publicity@drawnandquarterly.com

    Thurs, May 24th, 7pm – Free Event

    Quimby’s Bookstore, Chicago, IL quimbys.com

    Here’s the Facebook Event Invite for this!

     

    Press about Sabrina!:
    Chicago Magazine
    Chicago Tribune
    The Chicago Reader

  • New Stuff This Week

    Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980 by Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette (PM Press) $29.95 – From the juvenile delinquent gangs of the early 1950s through the beats and hippies, on to bikers, skinheads, and punks, pulp fiction left no trend untouched. 400 full-colour covers, 70 in-depth author interviews, illustrated biographies, and previously unpublished articles from more than 20 popular culture critics and scholars from the US, UK, and Australia, the book goes behind the scenes to look at the authors and publishers, how they worked, where they drew their inspiration and—often overlooked—the actual words they wrote.

    Zines

    Works In Progress Draft #1 by LZRDbrain $10

    Intentionally Left Blank by Popla $5

    Ear Plugs and Ticket Stubs by Kathy Moseley $3

    Grey Zine $5

    Comics & Minis

    Issues of Mini kuš! $5 each:
    #59 Share the Love by Paula Bulling and Nina Hoffman,
    #60 His Last Comic by Noah Van Sciver
    #61 Jonah 2017 by Tomasz Niewiadomski
    #62 Daughter by Aidan Koch
    #63 Nausea by Abraham Diaz
    #64 Collection by Pedro Franz
    #65 Master Song by Francisco Sousa Lobo
    #66 Resident Lover by Roman Muradov

    Issues of š! Baltic Comics Magazine, $12 each:
    #30 Oct 17 – Special Brooklyn edition, guest edited by the owner of Desert Island Comics, Gabe Fowler!
    #31 Feb 18 Visitors

    So Buttons #8 $5 – With Noah Van Sciver, Rachel Dukes, T.J. Kirsch, Corinne Mucha & Rick Parker.

    Graphic Novels

    Ghost Stories by Whit Taylor $17.95

    Rice Boy by Evan Dahm (Iron Circus) $30

    I Love This Part: Hardcover Edition by Tillie Walden $16.99 – Two girls in a small town in the USA kill time together as they try to get through their days at school, watching videos and sharing earbuds, exchanging songs and stories.

    Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi (D&Q) $21.95 – Artists in a stormy relationship, from acclaimed Japanese underground comics artist. Now in soft cover.

    Fenix by Zane Zlemesa $16

    Fearless Colors by Samplerman $19

    Compulsive Comics by Eric Haven (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Existential Terror! Global Warming! A Vengeful God!

    TRUMPTRUMP Vol. 1: nomination to inauguration by Warren Craghead, III (Retrofit) $25

    Art Books

    Guess I Just Never Felt the Spirit Matt Christy & R.D. King $20

    Questionable Taste Levels by Elanor Aldrich & R.D. King $24

    Outer Limits

    Liquid Conspiracy 2: The CIA, MI5 and Big Pharma’s War on Psychedelics by Xaviant Haze $19.95

    Big Brother Technology: PRISM, XKeyscore, and other Spy Tools of the Global Surveillance State by Axel Balthazar $19.95 – An exposé of the software programs and techniques used by the agencies to spy on the planet. Big Brother is watching. It’s time to watch back.

    The Three Barons: The Organizational Chart of the Kennedy Assassination by James W Lateer $24.95

    Essays

    Suffering Ends When Awakening Begins by Robert Crown $13.99

    Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith $28

    Guy Debord by Anselm Jappe (PM Press) $21.95 – First intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International (1957–1972) and author of The Society of the Spectacle.

    Mags

    She Shreds #14 $10
    Wire #408 $10.99
    Mojo #292 $11.25
    Street Trash Mag #2 & #3 $5 each

    Lit Journals & Chap Books

    The Lantern #2 Feb 18 (Entropic Press) $4 – Local fiction lit journal in zine style!

    12 Street Haiku by Shelly Smith $8

  • New Stuff This Week

    Shitty Printers by JP Garrigues and Bo Fahs (Blue Star Press) $13.99 – From the first consumer inkjet to more modern monstrosities, Shitty Printers breaks down the worst offenders of our home offices. Featuring popular and exasperating home staples such as the HP Thinkjet 2225A, the Lexmark Z22, the long forgotten Canon BJC-85, and many more.

    Dot matrix printout in the house.

    Print yr zines out on this, word.

     

    Zines

    Butch Nor Femme #12 $2

    KerBloom #130 by Artnoose $2

    Razorblades and Aspirin #3 by M. Thorn $8

    Face Value 2012 Understanding and Combating Face-ism by Alice W. $2

    Smudge vol 2 #2 by Clay Hickson $5 – Tan & Loose’s monthly newspaper offering articles, interviews, comics, and advice from a range of unique thinkers and creators, in the spirit of the underground and alternative presses of the 60’s and 70’s.

    Comics & Minis

    Treasure Island #3 by Connor Willumsen (Breakdown Press) $12.50

    comics by Melissa Dettloff:
    Hot Dog Confessional $5 – A zine that answers some of life’s important questions: do hot dogs like email? can a hot dog be a priest? what are hot dogs made of?
    Dogs and Stools $3 – A zine featuring dogs and stools…but what kind of stools? Read to find out. This zine is a “one sheet book” and folds out to a poster printed on the back. This zine is a “one sheet book” and folds out to a poster printed on the back.
    Arms Must Be Akimbo $15 – Delightful hand screen printed mini-comic about arm posture. This little comic made me laugh and smile with excellent line work, eye popping color and hilarious quips. ~CH
    How to Achieve Sheer Dreamy Happiness: A Guide For Better Living $5

    Hades #1 by Tim Tyler $10

    New Wave Comics Presents #1-#3 by David Soileau $1.50 each

    Fifty Flip Experiment #22 by Dan Hill $5

    Graphic Novels

    Out of Nothing by David Blandy & Daniel Lopcke (Nobrow) $22.99

    Tim’rous Beastie: An Anthology of Small Adventures In a Big and Dangerous World by Amanda Lafrenais (Iron Circus) $30 – Proof that we’re not headed for destruction in 75 graphs from a cognitive scientist.

    Good News Bible: The Complete Deadline Strips of Shaky Kane (Breakdown Press) $34.99

    Picnoleptic Inertia by Tsemberlidis (Breakdown Press) $19.99

    Total Jazz by Blutch (Fantagraphics) $19.99

    Lovecraft: The Myth of Cthulhu by Esteban Maroto $19.99 – Illustrated in haunting black and white over 30 years ago, these comics are re-presented in a new edition, adapting three of H.P. Lovecraft’s most famous stories involving the Cthulhu Mythos.

    Vacation by Blexbolex (Enchaned Lion) $24.95 – Adventures in bringing an elephant home by this French artist.

    Politics & Revolution

    Post-Truth by Lee McIntyre (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) $15.95

    Bikequity: Money, Class, and Bicycling by Elly Blue (Elly Blue Publishing) $9.95 – The contributors to this book?in the Taking the Lane series?tackle present a thoughtful, multiperspective take on the sociopolitical effects of bicycling.

    Fiction

    Thirty-Seven: A Novel by Peter Stenson (Dzanc) $26.95 – Fight Club meets Heaven’s Gate in this story of an 18 year old that escapes a death cult and is encouraged to restart it by his enigmatic boss.

    Music & Film Books

    Psychiatric Tissue: The History of the Iconic Noise Rock Band Arab on Radar by Jeff Schneider $18

    It Came From the Video Aisle!: Inside Charles Band’s Full Moon Entertainment Studio by David Jay & friends (Schiffer) $34.99 – From Puppetmaster to Trancers and beyond, Full Moon transformed the VHS experience for fans worldwide. Featuring rare artwork, behind-the-scenes photos, and over 50 exclusive interviews with the cast and crew who helped to create the legendary B-movie studio!

    The Ultimate Guide to Strange Cinema by Michael Vaughn (Schiffer) $34.99 – Organized by genre, including comedy, horror, action, drama, fantasy, and sci-fi, this title offers 300 reviews of genre films from all over the world, 160 photos, and exclusive interviews and quotes from the people behind some of the most offbeat films ever made.

    Art & Design

    Eye See You: The Art of Oliver Hibert by Angelo Madrigale and Oliver Hibert (Schiffer) $34.99 – First monograph of this neo-psychedelic artist who has been featured in places like Juxtapoz & Hi-Fructose, and who has done many a poster and album cover for artists like the Flaming Lips. Over 200+ images of things like paintings, sculpture, drawings, tarot deck recreation and more!

    Modern Gothic: The Photographic Art of Jamie Mahon by Jamie Mahon (Schiffer) $34.99 – Whether it’s the ethereal otherworldliness of his Gothic heroines and villainesses, the provocative postures of his fetish performers, or the adrenalin-charged action of his fantasy characters, each image leaps from its page to shock and awe you.

    Robotic Existentialism: The Art of Eric Joyner (Dark Horse) $29.99 – Pastries mixed with vintage toys! A juxtaposition of joy.

    Screenprinting: The Ultimate Studio Guide from Sketchbook to Squeegee by Print Club London (Princeton Architectural Press) $40

    Essays

    TL;DR: The Best of Odd Things Considered by Anita Dalton (Nine-Banded Books) $29 – Dalton reads the type of weirdo books we sell and has been writing conversationally thoughtful counter-criticism for years, with insightful discussions of serial killer memoirs, outsider manifestos, and conspiracy theories (among many other outré subjects). Don’t miss this!

    Sexxxy Stuff

    Starfucker, various issues $12

    Mags

    AdBusters #136 $14.95
    Smith Journal #25 $17.99
    Frankie #81 $19.95
    Purple Fashion vol 3 #29 $30

    Poetry & Chap Books

    Chap Books from M. Wright: Boy Named Jane $10 & Dear Dementia $7

    Other Stuff

    New Field Notes:
    Field Notes for Left Handed Folks! $9.95
    Signature 2Pack, Plain or Ruled, cream/yellow or muted green cover, 4¼”× 6½” $15.00 each

  • New Stuff This Week

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    Universal Harvester: A Novel by John Darnielle $16, Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine (D&Q) $19.95

    Zines

    RocknRoll Astrology and Rituals by Elizabeth Thompson $5

    Osos Polares by Bronson Betty $2

    Torn Page From the Diary of British Explorer Theodore M. Walker, Cthulhu Inspired Fiction by Joseph Carlough $2

    Crooked Mouth #2 by Just Richardson $10

    Comics & Minis

    The Wonderful World of Tank Girl #3 The Man from Tank Girl by Alan Martin & friends $3.99

    Rose #7 by Cameron Davis $3.99

    True Adventures of Jep Comix #7 by Jep $4

    I Know You Think Your Sex Life Is Bad by Bella Levavi $2

    Graphic Novels

    Please Destroy the Internet by Michael Sweater (Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club) $10

    stuff from Colour Code Printing:
    His Story of War by Gunsho $15
    Looking Inward by Amy Lockhart $14
    Alicias Klassic Kool Shoppe Part 2 $15

    The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood Vol. 2 edited by Bhob Stewart & friends (Fantagraphics) $39.99 – Carefully compiled over more than three decades by Wood assistant Bhob Stewart.

    Vanishing Perspectives by Alexis Beauclair (2dcloud) $20.95

    Many Ways of Doing and the Wrong Way That It’s Done by Conor Stechschulte $32

    Art & Design

    Mother Nature’s Altered States by Bill Kalnes $24.99

    Poetry & Chap Books

    In the Shape of a Human Body I Am Visiting on Earth: Poems from Far and Wide, edited by Ilya Kaminsky,? Dominic Luxford & Jesse Nathan (McSweeney’s) $14.00 – A slim anthology of work by various poets, courtesy of Poetry International.

    Plastic Sea by Erica Schreiner $10

    Mags
    Shindig #75 $13.99
    Progressive Feb Mar 2018 $4.95
    Pinstriping and Kustom Graphics Magazine #65 & #66 $10 each
    The Point #15 $14.99
    Fortean Times #362 $12.50
    Shots #138 $8.25

  • John Porcellino: From Lone Mountain at Quimby's 3/16

    John Porcellino will be comin’ round Lone Mountain with his newest D+Q book here at Quimby’s on Friday, March 16th!

    From Lone Mountain (in stores March 20th) collects stories from his influential zine King-Cat, and sees John entering a new phase of his life—remarrying and deciding to leave his beloved second home Colorado for San Francisco. Grand themes of King-Cat are visited and stated more eloquently than ever before: serendipity, memory, and the quest for meaning in the everyday.

    A view of America—as seen in small towns, rural roads, and its overlooked in-between places

    John Porcellino makes his love of home and of nature the anchors in an increasingly turbulent world. He slows down and visits the forests, fields, streams, and overgrown abandoned lots that surround every city. He studies the flora and fauna around us. He looks at the overlooked. Porcellino also digs deep into a quintessential American endeavour—the road trip. Uprooting his comfortable life several times in From Lone Mountain, John drives through the country weaving from small town to small town, experiencing America in slow motion, avoiding the sameness of airports and overwhelming hustle of major cities.

    Over the past three decades, Porcellino’s beloved King-Cat has offered solace to his readers: his gentle observational stories take the pulse of everyday life and reveal beauty in the struggle to keep going.

    About John Porcellino:

    John Porcellino was born in Chicago in 1968, and has been writing, drawing, and publishing minicomics, comics, and graphic novels for over twenty-five years. His celebrated self-published series King-Cat Comics, begun in 1989 and still running, has inspired a generation of cartoonists. He lives in Illinois.

    For more info:

    johnporcellino.blogspot.com

    king-cat.net

    drawnandquarterly.com

    Facebook Event Listing for this event.

     

  • New Stuff This Week

    King and Queen of the Badlands: Roy Boy & Debra the Tattooed Lady by Tim Svetly (NLT Publishing) $65 – Tim Svetly walked into Debra Cooper’s tattoo shop and it changed his life forever. Stories of tigers, jet cars, speedboats, and of course, motorcycles — and this was just the beginning. Tim reflects the story of a tattooed legend, doing whatever the hell he wanted, out of Gary, Indiana.

    Zines & Zine-Related Books

    titles by Jolie Ruin: Riot Grrrl Reviews #1 $2, various issues of The Escapist Artist, various prices

    titles from Aaron Krach: Things To Tell Your Lover $18, Jennifer #1 $20 & more!

    Revision of Everyday Life by Cassie Tompkins $10

    Where to Score By Jason Fulford & Jordan Stein (J&L Books / KADIST) $6.99 – San Francisco Oracle was a countercultural newspaper published in the city’s bustling Haight Ashbury neighborhood from September 1966 to February 1968. In 12 issues combining poetry, spirituality and speculation with revolutionary rainbow inking effects, the Oracle reached well beyond the Bay Area and spoke to a radical new American ethos. The classified section featured ads for drummers, carpenters, head shops and more. Elsewhere, beat poet Michael McClure needs a harp and the Sexual Freedom League is hungry for recruits. An honest, immediate and lesser-known chapter bookending the “Summer of Love.”

    Radical Henry by Jason Herr $5

    Hard to Love #4 & #5 by Sara McHenry $3 each

    Platform by Tom McHenry $5

    Ilse Content #14 $2

    Comics & Minis

    You Don’t Get There From Here #45 by Carrie McNinch $3

    Lale Westvind comics:

    $7 each: Hot Dog Beach issues #3 & #4, Mary – The minds of Mary and Joan the Drone Pilot (and friends) fuse for a coordinated strike on the Air Drone Company Temple. It’s a far-out future world extrapolated from our hellish present. A kinetic SF head-trip from one of the most exciting young creators on the scene. -Lane

    Soft by Gabe Howell $5

    This is Still America #1 by George $5

    Tough Times for Demons by Zeus Fondanarosa $1

    Bike Ride Home by Darcy Nicholson $3

    Panting Dog #2 by J. Edward Bone $5

    I Can’t Remember by Darcy Nicholson $4

    Hook Line and Sinker by Jillian Sander $8

    Graphic Novels

    Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City by Julia Wertz $29.99

    Is This Guy For Real?: The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman by Box Brown (First Second) $19.99

    All Time Comics: Blind Justice #2 by Josh Bayer & friends $5.99 – This DOUBLE-SIZED final installment will test everything Blind Justice knows about himself and his mission.

    Art & Design Books

    Eyeball Cards CB Radio Culture Break Again (Four Corners) $35

    Politics & Revolution Books

    An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz $27.95

    Outer Limits

    UFO Drawings From the National Archives by David Clarke (Four Corners) $35

    Essays

    Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats by Robert Inchausti $16.95

    Pray the Gay Away by the Zakar Twins $13.99 – The story of what it was like to be from a family that when the authors came out, their mother threw holy water on them.

    Plrknib by Alex Bernstein $6.99

    Books by Daniel Thomas Macinnes, $19.99 each: Zen Arcade: Classic Video Game Reviews, Pop Life, Greatest Hits: An Anthology In Four Volumes

    Fiction

    The Transition: A Novel by Luke Kennard $27 – Having trouble keeping your shit together in dystopia? You and your SO live with a slightly older couple until your ready to be reintegrated into adult society. Here’s what happens after 6 months.

    Miserable Adventure Stories by Alex Bernstein $6.99

    Mags
    Cabinet #64 The Nose $12
    Truth Seeker #145 $9.95

    Lit Journals & Chap Books

    Propter Nos vol 2 #1 Insurgency Exhaustion $10

    Sheriff Nottingham #12 Festivus $10

    Closet Is On Fire by Ainsley Meyer $5

    To Be Whole Is to Be Part by Tomas Moniz $3

    Body Is a Wild Wild Thing by Tomas Moniz $3

    Other Stuff

    I Cry Everyday Iron On Patch $8.50

    New volumes of Little Otsu Annual Weekly Planners with Turquoise covers in different layouts, fill in your own dates! $20 each

    Capitalism Got Us Into This Sticker $3

  • New Stuff This Week

    Shiver: Selected Stories by Junji Ito $22.99

    Zines

    Hello I am Nice LOL Because I Have to be Right $10

    Life is Disappointing #4 $8

    Testify: Tell Your Government What You Think by Bronwyn Mauldin $7

    Sub/Verse #9 Pool Holograph $5

    These Things Might Help: A Self Care Zine by Lois De Silva $5

    Terrible Stories From Kelly McClure $5

    Green Things: A Friendly Botanical Field Guide to Southwest Ohio and Beyond by T. Pierson $5

    Gut Buster vol 0 (Night Watch Studios) $10

    Comics

    Rough by Caroline Cash $1.50

    Shawarma Chameleon by Matthew Thurber $15

    Laskimooses #39 Matti Hagelberg $7

    Jets and Sprites by Steve Schaberg $12

    I Made This Comic to Explain My Autistic Behaviour by Elyssa Saldana $3

    3mm Bleed: A Graphic Design Drama by Fredrik Rysjedal $12

    Graphic Novels

    Comics for Choice by Hazel Newlevant & friends $25 – Anthology of comics about abortion. Contains comics from cartoonists like Sophia Foster-Dimino, Leah Hayes, Anna Bongiovanni and more.

    Red Winter by Anneli Furmark $21.95

    Robert Moses: The Master Builder of New York City by Olivier Balez and Pierre Christin $15.95

    Only the End of the World Again by Neil Gaiman $19.99

    Ben Katchor: Conversations edited by Ian Gordon (University Press Of Mississippi) $50

    Fiction

    Lovers and Neighbors by SB Gamble $15.99

    Poetry

    Stars at Naught by Owen Patterson $9.95

    Mags

    Bust #109 Feb Mar 18 $6.99

    Maximumrocknroll #417 Feb 18 Year End Top Ten Issue $4.99

    Record Culture Magazine #4 $20

    Smith Journal #24 $17.99

    Ed Magazine #1 Architecture of Architecture $24

  • Tommi Parrish at Quimby's for The Lie and How We Told It 2/6

    Cartoonist, illustrator, and art editor Tommi Parrish stops at Quimby’s with The Lie and How We Told It, a book that has received praise from NPRPaste MagazineSequential State, and others.

    Tommi Parrish is a cartoonist, illustrator, and art editor from Melbourne, currently based in Montreal. Their work has appeared in various anthologies, magazines, mini comics, gallery shows in New York, Argentina, and throughout Australia, the online column Advicecomics and they were previously an art editor of the Australian literary journal The Lifted Brow. Their previous publications include Perfect Hair (2dcloud) and Perfect Discipline and Unbending Loyalty (Perfectly Acceptable Press).

    About The Lie

    After a chance encounter, two formerly close friends try to salvage whatever is left of their decaying relationship. They are in for an awkward, painful night that leaves them feeling lonelier, more uncertain, and more estranged than ever before. Parrish’s first graphic novel for Fantagraphics is a visual tour de force, always in the service of the author’s ever-prevalent themes: navigating queer desire, masculinity, fear, and the ever-in-flux state of friendships.

    Parrish makes emotionally loaded painted comics about everyday relationships, doubts, and anxieties. The psychological acuity in the work pairs perfectly to the graphic style. The Lie and How We Told It is a remarkably resonant work from an exciting new voice in contemporary graphic novels. 

    Don’t miss Tommi here on Tuesday, Feb 6th, 7pm.

    Here’s the event invite for this on Facebook.

  • Zizobotchi Rises at Quimby's: Selected Readings from Volume 2 on Friday, March 2nd

    Join us for a night of selected readings from Zizobotchi Papers: volume 2, fall, 2017.

    Zizobotchi Papers is a literary journal dedicated to the novella. Think double feature, with a paperback spine instead of a marquee.

    Jeff Phillips will read from his latest novella, God’s Least Likely to Succeed, about the derailing of a secret agent’s first day on the job by an ancient cult’s infiltration of their operation.

    Erin Makowski will read from Dan MacRae’s latest novella, The Dollmaker’s Grin, where an altercation changes a shuttle bus driver’s life, for better, and for much much worse.

    Copies of the book will be for sale for $13.

    Find out more about Zizobotchi Papers on the web at Zizobotchi.com

    Jeff Phillips is a washed up varsity cross country skier and storefront theatre method actor. For two years he was co-host of The Liquid Burning, an apocalypse themed reading series, and for just shy of three years, he co-hosted the Chicago reading series Pungent Parlour. His short fiction has appeared in Seeding Meat, This Zine Will Change Your Life, Metazen, Chicago Literati, and Literary Orphans. He is the co-founder of Zizobotchi Papers, a literary journal dedicated to the novella and a regular contributor of short stories and essays at the site Drinkers With Writing Problems. You can find him on Twitter as @TheIglooOven or at theotherauthorjeffphillips.com

    Erin Makowski has been acting and singing since her childhood. Her first production was as Gretel in ‘The Sound of Music’. Most of her younger years were spent in the Gilbert and Sullivan Company of El Paso going from the high seas in ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ to a little maid in school in Mikado. After her early schooling in the theater Erin received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College right here in Chicago. Erin has worked with many companies in town, played extras on TV and sung her heart out for Cabaret audiences.

    Fri, March 2nd, 7pm – Free Event

    Click here to see the Facebook invite for this event.