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Thursday, June 3. It’ll be quite a thing.

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

Chicago Ward Primer: Celebrities, Scandals & Snacks

Complimentary beer!

Complimentary appetizers from Las Palmas
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New Post on The Silver-Colored Yesterday

Commentary on the real and imagined social, cultural and literary heritage of MAKE’s hometown

Power Line Sublime

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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.

Read more here.

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Erica Johnson Debeljak Reading and Wine Tasting, MAY 20

MAY 20 Erica Johnson Debeljak at WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST BOOKS

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

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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.

READ MORE HERE

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Online Exclusive: An Interview with Aaron Michael Morales

Someone’s Son: An Interview with Aaron Michael Morales

By Nick Moroni

via e-mail May, 2010

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Doubles Night Tonight: Clark & O’Brien; Morales & Nichols

Two great readings are happening in Chicago tonight – MAY 12.  Four dudes, two neighborhoods – one chance only?

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.

Aaron Michael Morales

reads from Drowning Tuscon – which includes a story first featured in MAKE. Read El Camino from issue 1.

Travis Nichols

(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

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Also, the always impressive Danny’s Reading Series is happening tonight, May 12 at 7:30 sharp!

It will feature poets Jeff Clark (Music and Suicide, 2A) and Geoffrey G. O’Brien (Green and Gray, 2A).

Read more about these guys and the series here. http://dannys.noslander.com/

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Now With More Reviews

BOOKS! REVIEWS!

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?

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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
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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
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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
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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