A Saturday Evening Pre: Cocktail Hour Reading and Discussion featuring Renowned Writers Stephen Elliott and Luis Alberto Urrea, and Emerging Writer Caroline Picard

Saturday, December 5, 6:30pm  at Bar DeVille

701 N. Damen, Chicago, IL 60622 / FREE

A cocktail hour reading and discussion featuring  novelists and nonfiction writers Stephen Elliott and Luis Alberto Urrea – two of today’s most innovative and honored writers – as well as  up-and-coming  fiction writer and publisher, Caroline Picard.   Each will read from new work and answer questions.

Evening hosted by Jonathan Messinger. Cofounder of Featherproof Books and books editor at Time Out Chicago.

Elliott is touring in support of his recent memoir The Adderall Diaries – described as “genius” by both the San Francisco Chronicle and Vanity Fair.

Urrea’s most recent books are the 2009 novel Into the North and The Hummingbird’s Daughter – culmination of 20 years of research and writing. The historical novel tells the story of Teresa Urrea, sometimes known as The Saint of Cabora and the Mexican Joan of Arc.

The reading will take place in Bar DeVille’s lushly furnished parlor – perfectly suited for a Saturday evening of storytelling and conversation.

Reading attendees will receive a bracelet granting a one-dollar discount on each drink!

The Urban Frontier and the Value of Voids

Joe Drogos’s newest essay makes use of Bertrand Goldberg, Billy Wimsatt, Hamish Fulton, and rogue coyotes, while it tries to explain the importance of incongruity and emptiness in the city’s culture. Take a peek at it and other entries in Joe’s blog, The Silver-Colored Yesterday, one of MAKE’s online features.

Read more here.

The Danny’s Reading Series

Wednesday, November 18th
7:30PM

Poetry by:

Kiki Petrosino and Judith Goldman

JUDITH GOLDMAN is the author of Vocoder (Roof Books 2001), DeathStar/rico-chet (O Books 2006), and a chapbook, “The Dispossessions” (Atticus/Finch 2009). Her work appears or will appear in recent issues of Mrs. Maybe, Wig, Parameter, 580 Split, onedit, Model Homes, Moonlit, West Wind Review, and cannot exist. She was a coeditor in the Krupskaya Collective from 2002 through 2004 and coedits the annual anthology War and Peace with Leslie Scalapino (#4 appeared in June). She teaches as a professor and Harper Schmidt Fellow in the arts humanities core and the creative writing department at the University of Chicago.

KIKI PETROSINO is the author of Fort Red Border, published in 2009 from Sarabande Books. Kiki holds an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets, Fence, The Iowa Review, Harvard Review, Verse Daily, Forklift Ohio, and elsewhere. She lives in Iowa City.

next month:
Wednesday, December 9th

Alan Bernheimer (The Spoonlight Institute, Adventures in Poetry)
Karyna McGlynn (I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl, Sarabande)

Danny’s Tavern is located at 1951 W. Dickens (near the intersection of Armitage and Damen): 773-489-6457, 21+ please bring ID.

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This Sunday as part of the 20th Anniversary of The Underground Wonderbar, Chicago’s best underground bar that no one has ever heard of, a celebration will take place.

“Come Home Chicago” will celebrate the long tradition of Chicago writing and story telling that provides the foundation to the city’s contemporary literary world.

Some of the roster:
Rick Kogan
Billy Lombardo
Lonie Walker (celebrated owner of Wonderbar)
Don De Grazia
a band: Taggart Transcontinental
a DJ: DJ Bhunty

MALORT.

10. E. Walton
$3 Beer Specials
No cover until 8, then 5 bucks.

And later in the evening there will be a mini-Windy City Story Slam.