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Celebrate the release award-winning Chicago author and MAKE contributor Reginald Gibbons’s collection of Chicago poems and stories,
SLOW TRAINS OVERHEAD
. Gibbons will be joined by gapersblock.com’s Politics Editor, Ramsin Canon. Canon will present a multi-media
Commentary on the real and imagined social, cultural and literary heritage of MAKE’s hometown
Joe Drogos’s newest essay suggests we can only understand our infrastructure and industry if we first let it stupefy us.Take a peek at it and other entries in Joe’s blog, The Silver-Colored Yesterday, one of MAKE’s online features.
Erica Johnson Debeljak reads from her memoir Forbidden Bread. 7:30 p.m. When: Thursday, May 20, 7:30 pm / Where: Women and Children First – 5233 N. Clark St., Chicago IL 60640 / Cost: FREE /All ages
And for those of a certain age – a Slovenian wine tasting sponsored by Wine Discount Center and featuring
Kogl Sämling “Mea Culpa” 2008
Pullus Laški Rizling 2007
Pullus Sauvignon Blanc 2008
About the author: Erica Johnson Debeljak left her career in the early 90s as a New York City financial analyst to marry Slovenian poet Aleš Debeljak and move to his home country. Unable to pursue her financial career in Slovenia, she became a literary translator (from Slovenian into English), writer, and columnist. Her stories and essays have appeared in the US News and World Report, Glimmer Train (winner of 2007 Family Matters Award), Prairie Schooner, The Missouri Review, Nimrod, Epoch, Common Knowledge, and Eurozine. Her work has been translated into Italian, German, Hungarian, Bosnian, and Slovakian. She received an MFA in creative writing from the University of New Orleans and has published three books in Slovenia, including Foreigner in the House of Natives. This year, her memoir Forbidden Bread was published by North Atlantic Books.
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Someone’s Son: An Interview with Aaron Michael MoralesBy Nick Moronivia e-mail May, 2010 |
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Let’s break it down like this:
Prefer fiction? Head down to 57th St. Books (1301 East 57th Street) at 6:30pm to hear not one, but TWO MAKE contributors read from their new book both out from Coffee House Press.
reads from Drowning Tuscon – which includes a story first featured in MAKE. Read El Camino from issue 1.
(issue 6 and STEAM, a film with Dean Rank) reads from his new novel about generational divides, World War II, and a quest for truth Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder
Read more about these guys and the series here. http://dannys.noslander.com/
Along with our online exclusives, we’ve posted all the reviews from our print issues.
Find them here: http://makemag.com/reviews-online/
These books were often chosen based on the theme of the issue. Can you guess which?
 The Skating Rink By Roberto Bolaño Translated by Chris Andrews New Directions 182 pages The Bolaño Who Would Be God or, An Open Letter to Horacio Castellanos Moya Reviewed by Gabriel Levinson |
 A New Literary History of America Essays edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1128 pages The Good Soldiers Nonfiction by David Finkel Farrar, Straus and Giroux 304 pages Reviewed by Weston Cutter |
 Everything Flows A novel by Vasily Grossman Translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, and Anna Aslanyan NYRB Classics 272 pages Reviewed by Anthony Marra |
 If I Were Another Poems by Mahmoud Darwish, Translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah Farrar, Strauss and Giroux 201 pages Reviewed by Jane Lewty |
