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It’s that time again…PRINTERS’ BALL!
The Printers’ Ball is an annual celebration of print culture, featuring thousands of magazines, books, and broadsides available free of charge; live readings and music; letterpress, offset, and paper-making demonstrations; and much more.
Friday, July 31, 2009
5:00pm – 11:00pm
Ludington Building
1104 South Wabash Avenue 
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Founded by Poetry magazine with other independent Chicago literary organizations, the Printers’ Ball is an annual celebration of print culture, featuring thousands of magazines, books, and broadsides available free of charge; live readings and music; letterpress, offset, and paper-making demonstrations; and much more. This year’s Printers’ Ball is co-produced with Columbia College Chicago and the Center for Book & Paper Arts, and is set to take place in the landmark Ludington Building, former home to the American Book Company. Select events during the Printers’ Ball are being recorded for Chicago Public Radio’s Chicago Amplified.
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Chicago Lit Lounge at the Cultural Center
“The Chicago Publishers Gallery is a true display of the city’s diversity, enthusiasm, and determination. From the largest university publisher in the U.S. to experimental ‘micropresses’ to authors of every stripe, Chicago’s literary entrepreneurs are motivated by a do-it-yourself spirit and a fierce independence. Visitors are invited to explore the gallery in order to get a sense of the many exciting publications that are being written and published in Chicago today.
1500 Books from over 125 Publishers The Gallery showcases approximately 1500 books from 50 area book publishers and 75 periodical publishers. It includes selections from university presses, trade publishers, small presses, and art publishers, as well as zines, pamphlets, comic books, and book arts items. It also includes a selection of Chicago’s proliferating periodicals. The city’s newspapers and magazines are as various as the concerns of its citizens, and they prove the intellectual and artistic depths that one can plumb from a perch in the Windy City.”
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Robert Duffer Interviews John McNally on examiner.com
Veteran MAKE Book Reviewer Robert Duffer is now THE Chicago Literary Scene Reporter for online journal and current events knower, examiner.com. He recently interviewed fellow John McNally about his new book, Ghosts of Chicago.
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Is Greater Than Celebrates First Year, Relaunches
Online magazine Is Greater Than celebrates its first year with a major relaunch.
“In only a year, the independent culture and progressive politics magazine Is Greater Than has earned a impressive readership that spans the nation. Based out of Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area, Is Greater Than’s staff of over 20 writers are committed to compelling and provocative content that explores the intersections of politics and culture, art and the free market, and technology and science.
Formed from the ashes of the independent publishing meltdown of 2007, Is Greater Than’s staff of contributors boasts editors and contributors from *Punk Planet*, Pitchfork Media, *Love, Chicago*,* MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine*, the *Metro Silicon Valley*, the *San Francisco Chronicle*, *Alternative Press*, and a slew of new and emerging reporters, essayists and fiction writers.”
