Jaded Ibis Press, full-spectrum publisher, who is bringing out cool books by Lily Hoang, David Hoenigman, John Dermot Woods/J.A. Tyler, Janice Lee, Anna Joy Springer, Christopher Grimes, and me (BLANK, w/ tracks from Dj Spooky), got the grand treatment in Forbes.com last week.
All readings are free and open to the public, run from 7:00-8:00 p.m., and are held at the Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell Avenue Chicago, IL. (map it)
Davis Schneiderman is releasing his new novel, Drain, at his book launch sink party at the Part Time Gallery (5219 N. Clark. 3rd Floor) on July 31st.
And even better...there will be performances or readings by Steve Tomasula, Cookies & MILF (aka Kelly Haramis & Jennifer Boxrud), Don Share, John Beer, Rebekah Silverman and Tadd Adcox (reading a piece by Fred Sasaki). Artwork by Elizabeth Birnbaum, Karen Larson, Eli Robb and Mai Wagner.
The Gallery is also hosting the exhibit DISCARD in conjunction with the Book Sink Party. The art exhibit will open July 30th and feature pieces by Book Sink Party presenters and other local artists.
Doors open at 7:00 pm to a room full of entertaining art and artful entertainment.
FREE wine, free autographs, free love, free tiaras and freedom of speech.
Schedule (with special surprises throughout):
7:45: Steve Tomasula
8:20 Cookies and MILF: Kelly Haramis & Jennifer Boxrud
9:00 Don Share // John Beer
10:00: from Artifice Magazine: Rebekah Silverman & Tadd Adcox
10:40: Davis Schneiderman
DAVIS SCHNEIDERMAN
Davis Schneiderman is a multimedia artist and writer and the author and editor of eight books, including the novels Drain (TriQuarterly/Northwestern) and Abecedarium (Chiasmus) and the forthcoming blank novel, Blank: a novel (Jaded Ibis); the co-edited collections Retaking the Universe: Williams S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto) and The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism’s Parlor Game (Nebraska); as well as the audiocollage Memorials to Future Catastrophes (Jaded Ibis). His creative work has appeared in numerous publications including Fiction International, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, and Exquisite Corpse. He is Chair of the English Department at Lake Forest College, and also Director of Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books. He edits The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing. He can be found, virtually, at davisschneiderman.com.
OTHER PERFORMERS
JAMES TADD ADCOX
James Tadd Adcox is the editor-in-chief of Artifice Magazine (www.artificemag.com). His own work has been published or is forthcoming in Barrelhouse, PANK, Mid-American Review, and Quick Fiction, among other
places. He lives in Chicago.
JOHN BEER
John Beer’s first book, The Waste Land and Other Poems, has just been published. Appearing in some fine literary magazines, he writes on theater for Time Out Chicago.
JENNIFER BOXRUD
Born and raised in Texas, Jen fled to Colorado, where she majored in Broadcast Journalism. Now she's a nurse. Jen gets bored easily. As a child, Jen entertained friends and family (ok, herself) by giving her stuffed animals voices and personalities. As a grownup, Jen realized she needed more Playtime and began her Improv journey. And by "journey," I mean she opened a box of wine, Googled "Second City," drank said box of wine, thought, 'Hey, I love Improv! And boxed wine!' Then Jen clicked the "Sign Me Up" box and entered her 12-digit credit card number. Oh, and the three-digit security code on the back. Which, after a box of wine, is kinda hard to find. Jen is awfully glad she made friends with Kelly on the playground.
KELLY HARAMIS
A former Chicago Tribune reporter and editor, Kelly Haramis is a freelance writer and improv student at the Second City Conservatory and IO in Chicago, who is working on her first one-woman show. She spends the other 23 hours of her day running after her daughters Athena, 4, and Kallista, 3.
DON SHARE
Don Share is Senior Editor of Poetry magazine. His books include Squandermania, Union, The Traumatophile, and Seneca in English. Forthcoming are: a new book of poems, Wishbone, Bunting’s Persia, and a critical edition of Basil Bunting’s poems. His translations of Miguel Hernández, collected in I Have Lots of Heart, were awarded the Times Literary Supplement Translation Prize, the Premio Valle Inclán, and the PEN/New England Discovery Award. He has been Poetry Editor of Harvard Review and Partisan Review, the editor of Literary Imagination, and the curator of poetry at Harvard University.
REBEKAH SILVERMAN
Rebekah Silverman is the managing editor of Artifice Magazine, which can be found in better-quality bookstores and online at artificemag.com. She is also the Director of Resource Development at Growing Home, a Chicago non-profit, where she sends emails and writes grants. Rebekah can be found online at rebekahsilverman.com.
STEVE TOMASULA
Steve Tomasula is the author of the novels VAS: An Opera in Flatland; IN & OZ; The Book of Portraiture; and most recently, TOC: A New-Media Novel, a multimedia novel about time, published on DVD (FC2/University of Alabama Press), which received this year’s Mary Shelly Award for Excellence in Fiction. His short fiction and essays on literature and art have appeared widely, and include stories in McSweeney's, American Arts & Letters, and The Iowa Review. In Chicago, he lives 3 blocks from this gallery, and is the director of the creative writing program at the University of Notre Dame.
ARTISTS
ELIZABETH BIRNBAUM
Elizabeth is the program coordinator for Environmental Studies at Lake Forest College. She graduated from Lake Forest in 2008 with a degree in Art History and Psychology. After college, she moved to Brazil, learned Portuguese, then came back to Chicago, where she went on to work for the Burnham Centennial.
Beyond that, Elizabeth’s life can now be completely traced through the blog site, tumblr. This summer she is the project manager for the campus garden (lfcgarden.tumblr.com). She is one of four co-owners of the Part Time Gallery in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood (theparttimegallery.tumblr.com). She also fancies herself to be a multimedia artist (paperandsound.tumblr.com) and an art collector (mercurialself.tumblr.com).
KAREN LARSON
Karen Larson is a senior at Lake Forest College where she is majoring in English creative writing and minoring in theatre. Since the age of five, she has been entranced by the art world, working extensively in theatre, dance, music, film, and writing and has more recently delved into photography. She is originally from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and just returned from a semester abroad in South Africa. After graduation plans are anything but solidified--throw out the net and see what comes back.
ELI ROBB
Eli Robb is an inter-media artist, living in Evanston, IL. He is originally from California and has always been interested in art, among many other subjects. Eli received his B.A. with honors in Art Practice from the University of California at Berkeley. He received his M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003 and is currently Assistant Professor of Art at Lake Forest College. Eli has recently exhibited sculpture, video, installation, and performance work in venues in and around Chicago. His work approaches everyday objects and subject matter with serious formal considerations and a playful resignation to the absurdity of both art and life.
Technical Assistant: Niharika Jain
MAI WAGNER
Mai is an artist living in Chicago. He spends most days chasing after his 4 year old daughter while reading, writing and creating art. It’s a busy day…
What follows is a list of appearances in support of my new novel Drain (TriQuarterly/Northwestern University Press). If you would be interested in having me read, live or via Skype, please get in touch here.
The novel details a near-past-then-future in which Lake Michigan empties of water — becoming an endless desert. A disenfranchised population that worships an arcane “World Worm” moves in, and the Quadrilateral Commission, a planned-community corporation, gradually supplants these people with towns not unlike Disney’s Celebration, Florida.
Yet all are not so easily supplanted. A partisan leader working against the Quadrilateral communities where she was born, the charismatic Dial-Up Networking leads the Blackout Angels gang in paramilitary activities. A second protagonist, the perpetually coughing Quadrilateral employee Washington Jefferson Lincoln Qui, combs the wasteland of old Lake Michigan in search of the memory of his burned sister, whom he knows now only as “blank hiss at the tape-end.”
1) My review of Raymond Federman's _The Carcasses_ appears in the current _American Book Review_: http://americanbookreview.org/sampleReview.asp?Issue=16&id=34
2) AWP hijinks with long rope threaded through the crowd: http://yfrog.us/5ayn7z
