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Monthly Archives: January 2010
TONIGHT: Danny’s Reading Series
Danny’s Reading Series
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 7:30 sharp
Danny’s Tavern, 1951 W. Dickins, Chicago
Poetry by Rob Schlegel and Catherine Theis
Catherine Theis is the author of the chapbook The Fraud of Good Sleep (SUN SUN SUN Press) and co-author of In Fortune … Continue reading
Congrats to Eula Biss – National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee
Issue 7 contributor Eula Biss was nominated in the criticism category for her collection of essays Notes From No Man’s Land: American Essays (Graywolf Press).
This book was also among Time Out Chicago’s top ten for 2009. Also, an essay from … Continue reading
Issue 4 contributor Mahmoud Saeed recognized in the latest New Yorker.
The current issue of the New Yorker contains an article on contemporary Arabic novels and features Mahmoud Saeed and his novel Saddam City.
For all the horror it details, this is a startlingly warm and humane book. Saeed, despite the incitements … Continue reading
Rooney Book Release Tonight!
If you’re in Chicago, then check out the launch of MAKE contributing editor Kathleen Rooney‘s latest book, the essay collection For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs, on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 7:30 pm at Women and … Continue reading
JAN. 19: COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS Premieres Nationwide!
Issue 7 contributor Kembrew Mcleod’s documentary COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS premieres Tuesday, January 19 on PBS’s Independent Lens!
Also check out Mcleod’s alter ego Robo Professor who just finished a dance music video about digital sampling and copyright law, with an interactive component. … Continue reading
Last Evenings on Earth
This will not be the last…
Chicago Tribune Books editor Amy Guth, Heather Momyer (303 Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, wordriver, PANK, Robot Melon),MAKE co-founder Mike Zapata, MAKE fiction editor Tom Mundt and contributor Ramsin Canon will be reading read at Cafe Wha … Continue reading
New Post on The Silver-Colored Yesterday
Penates of the Underpass
A tiny triangle of Chicago surrounded by interstates was once overseen by St. Jude, Patron of the Hopeless Cause. In a new essay, Joe Drogos looks at these odd blocks and sees the Roman hearthgods and Virgil’s … Continue reading
