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Written by featherproof
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You’ve probably heard the news reports that a 5.2 earthquake rippled through Chicago at about 4:30 this morning. Bosh. Those weren’t tectonic tremors you slept through, they were the aftershocks of our new cosmically awesome mini-books’ crash landing. The first, “Keftir the Blind” by Nathaniel Rich, was excerpted from his excellent new novel, The Mayor's Tounge, now out on Riverhead. Riding co-pilot on the mini-meteor is “My Brother” by Lindsay Hunter, an amazing short-short story that’s better than any of those long-long ones.
And speaking of the universe, a few light years away down in Alabama, Sons of the Rapture author Todd Dills and This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record’s Susannah Felts will both be at the Montevallo Literary Festival, reading as part of the Hot New Birmingham Writing event on Saturday, April 19 at 2pm.
For those of you in our HQ, you can see Nat Rich read from The Mayor's Tounge on Tuesday, April 22 at 7:30pm. He (and we) will be at the Lincoln Park Borders, 2817 N Clark St, affectionately known as The Borders Across from Landmark.
And if that’s not enough, we’re invading the art world next weekend. Come check out our booth at the NEXT Art Fair in the Merchandise Mart, Friday April 25 through Monday April 28. We’ll be showcasing our new poster series, which contains the entire text of our next book, boring boring boring boring boring boring boring, which isn’t even out until August. It’s like time travel, but real this time.
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Written by Jonny Mess
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Downtown brethren: I'm reading at 5pm this Wednesday night. Come straight from your workplace!
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Written by Administrator
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Today is featherproof’s third birthday. No, no no. It’s fine. Seriously. We didn’t expect you to remember. We didn’t tell anyone because we didn’t want to make a big thing of it. But we do have an itch to celebrate something, so we’ve declared the upcoming end of week Susannah Felts Weekend. She deserves it, having earned praise around the country, and now stopping in Chicago for a three-day spree. Here’s the calendar for her whistle-stop tour:
Small Press Month Showcase
Friday, March 28, 7pm-10pm, Free
Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall
With readers from Answer Tag Home Press, Cracked Slab Books, Dancing Girl Press, Fractal Edge Press, March Abrazo Press, Puddin' Head Press, Switchback Books
The Brian Costello Show with Brian Costello
Saturday, March 29, 3pm, Free
The Empty Bottle
With Mark Bazer and “Dan the Fan”
Author Coffee
The Writers’ Workspace
Sunday, March 30, 3pm, Free
Discussing anything you like over coffee and homemade, baked feathergoods
THIS WILL GO DOWN ON YOUR PERMANENT RECORD Release Party!
March 30, 2008 07:00PM
The Hideout
1354 W Wabansia
$5
With readings by:
Susannah Felts
J. Adams Oaks
Patrick Somerville
Eileen Favorite
And music from:
Judson Claiborne
and The Pawners' Society
But while you await the weekend, help us celebrate the birth of two beautiful new mini-books:
All My Homes, by Paul Fattaruso (author of the forthcoming, mind-blowing Bicycle, as well as other awesome books.)
and
Sunday Morning in 1982 by Susan Petrone (you may have recently read her in Glimmer Train)
And while we have you here, we’ll just let you know quickly that Saturday at 1pm, you should tune in to Re: Sound on WBEZ, 91.5 (or wbez.org), to hear one of featherproof’s two dads, Jonathan Messinger, discussing The Dollar Store and reading a story. And on Saturday, April 5, the other daddy, Zach Plague, will read as part of the Oops! series at Heaven Gallery. And then on April 9, Messinger will read from Hiding Out and some new work at Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery at 5pm.
Happy Susannah Felts Weekend, everyone. And happy birthday, us! |
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Upcoming Events |
Quickies! Kills!
Tue, Sep 14th, 2010, @7:30pm - Innertown Pub
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Indie Press Night with Ugly Duckling, Featherproof and Publishing Genius
Tue, Sep 28th, 2010, @7:30pm - Word, Brooklyn, NY
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Two Dollar Radio and featherproof! BFF Indie Press Night of Hand-holding!
Sun, Oct 24th, 2010, @7:00pm - KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street, NYC
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