Danny’s Reading Series

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 7:30 sharp

Danny’s Tavern, 1951 W. Dickins, Chicago

Poetry by Travis Nichols and Sandra Lim

Sandra Lim is the author of the poetry collection Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press). She was born in Seoul, Korea, grew up in San Francisco, CA, and is the 2009-2010 poet-in-residence at Columbia College Chicago.

Travis Nichols was born and raised in Ames, Iowa. He now lives in Chicago. An editor at the Poetry Foundation, his writing has appeared in MAKE, The Village Voice, The Believer, Details, Paste, The Stranger, and the Huffington Post. Iowa, his first book of poems, is just out from Letter Machine Press, and will be shortly followed by his first novel, Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder, due out in April from Coffee House Press.

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Two Separate Conversations: An Interview with Dave Daley and Stephen Elliott

By Caroline Picard

READ THE ISSUE 8 INTERVIEW – Now Available Online

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 (dusie kollectiv) with Jared Stanley and Lauren Levin. Her new poems are forthcoming in Action Yes, LIT, Sonora Review, and Volt and a poem appeared in MAKE issue 3, edited by Kevin Coval.  She received her MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is the recipient of a 2009 Individual Artists Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council.

Rob Schlegel is the author of The Lesser Fields (Center for Literary Publishing). His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Handsome, Octopus, Volt, MAKE issue 8 and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, and has lived in California, Montana, and Iowa.

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 the collection appeared in MAKE issue 7.  Basically, we strongly recommend you buy this book.

The current issue of the New Yorker contains an article on contemporary Arabic novels and features Mahmoud Saeed and his novel Saddam City.

From Mike Zapata, fiction editor on issue 4, commenting on Saeed: I’m very happy to see him recognized nationally, as when I met him four years ago he was struggling to figure out how to make his work known here. A novel a year, regardless of his situation, struggling, working, in political asylum, forgotten, found. A real writer.

Saeed’s story Saddam and Khamini appeared in MAKE issue 4 – Sister Cities: The International Issue.

You can read it here in its entirety.

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 Children First at 5233 N. Clark Street. She will be joined by co-reader Erika Mikkalo.

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. Here’s the website: http://www.robotainment.net/musicvideo.

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 Who?, 228 W Chicago Ave., on Friday, Jan 15

The reading introduced a new series to be held at the cafe.  Though we totally blew it on announcing this one, we’ll be sure to post info in the future.  EVen if the line-up is not stocked with MAKErs.

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!

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.