Posts tagged “chicago”
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VOICES Chicago project
October 24, 2011
VOICES is a non-profit arts, education and social justice organization active throughout the United States. It was founded in Chicago in 2007 by a group of activists, artists and educators, led by historian Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove, who together… -
Chris Howard Visits Barbara’s Bookstore in Chicago
May 26, 2011
May 26, 2011, 7:00 pm, author Chris Howard will be a Barbara’s Bookstore in Chicago following the release of his debut novel Tea of Ulaanbaatar, the story of disaffected Peace Corps volunteer Warren, who flees life in late-capitalist America to find himself stationed in the post-Soviet industrial hell of urban Mongolia. As the American presence crumbles, Warren seeks escape in tsus, the mysterious “blood tea” that may be the final revenge of the defeated Khans—or that may be only a powerful hallucinogen operating on an uneasy mind—as a phantasmagoria of violence slowly envelops him. Location: 1218 South Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60607 (at UIC).
Tags: barbara's bookstore, chicago, chris howard, fiction, novel, reading, tea of ulaanbaatar, tsus, UIC
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Inga Muscio at Women & Children First Bookstore
February 23, 2011
February 23, 2011, 7:30pm, Inga Muscio will be at Women & Children First Bookstore in Chicago. Muscio will be presenting her latest work Rose which explores the impacts of passive violence, abuse, war, and cultural trauma on our most intimate lives. Inga will be discussing passive violence, racism, and feminism. Rose breaks new ground in answering a fundamental question in most feminist and antiracist writing: how do we identify, witness, and then recover from trauma—as individuals, as families, as communities, and as a country? Location: 5233 N. Clark St. Chicago, IL 60640 For more information go to http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/.
Tags: bookstore, chicago, inga muscio, love in violent times, nonfiction, reading and signing, rose, women and children first, women's books
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Barry Gifford interviewed by Time Out Chicago
January 7, 2011
“Across more than 40 vignettes, Gifford summons post–World War II Chicago through the eyes of Roy, a kid who exists along the seams of Chicago’s underworld . . . The tales in Sad Stories almost read as fables, sometimes not extending beyond just a few pages. In the title story, Roy helps his friend clean up at a strip joint near State and Congress in the pre-dawn hours. An aging stripper bumps into him as he’s taking out the trash, and warns him against becoming one of her clients. In “The Swedish Bakery,” one of Roy’s friends seeks help from a priest when his brother and another boy wrangle him into a conspiracy to knock off the bakery where he works. Some function as snapshots of the city, while others almost as aphorisms, when Roy is granted wisdom from the adults in his life.” - Jonathan Messinger, Time Out Chicago
Tags: barry gifford, chicago, interviews, sad stories of the death of kings, time out
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Ralph Nader at International House in Chicago
September 28, 2009
Monday, September 28, 57th St. Books @ International House, 1414 E. 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637. Stay tuned for precise times and more details.
Tags: 57th street books, Authors, chicago, illinois, international house, only the superrich can save us, ralph nader, readings, signings, superrich tour
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Photos from Nelson Algren Live
April 16, 2009
Tags: barry gifford, chicago, Dan Simon, don delillo, entrapment, man with the golden arm, martha lavey, nelson algren, nelson algren live, readings, steppenwolf theatre, willem dafoe
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Nelson Algren Live reviewed in the Chicago Tribune
April 8, 2009
The ubertext of “Nelson Algren Live,” a literary evening that had the great Don DeLillo happy merely to read little bits of narration, and featured the truly delicious casting of Martha Lavey as Simone de Beauvoir? Algren spent a life writing about others and kept this hitherto-unpublished story hidden, because Blackie Cavanaugh, a gaping, emotional, closed, taciturn wound, was far too much like himself.
Tags: barry gifford, chicago, chicago tribune, Dan Simon, don delillo, entrapment, martha lavey, nelson algren, nelson algren live, reviews, steppenwolf theatre, willem dafoe
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Willem Dafoe at Nelson Algren Live
April 1, 2009
What’s the most exciting event taking place in Chicago on April 6th? According to Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune, Barbara Vitello of the Daily Herald, and Rob Christopher of the Chicagoist, there’s only one answer: Nelson Algren Live at the Steppenwolf Theatre. And, as Chris Jones mentions, Willem Dafoe is now among the performers reading selections from Algren’s work, along with Seven Stories publisher Dan Simon and authors Barry Gifford, Don DeLillo and Russell Banks.
Tags: art shay, barry gifford, chicago, Dan Simon, don delillo, nelson algren, nelson algren live, readings, russell banks, steppenwolf, willem dafoe
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Jeff McMahon essay on Nelson Algren
March 31, 2009
“Hundreds are expected to fill the Steppenwolf Theater for a reading of [Algren's] works April 6. Whenever these events occur, the panelists marvel at Algren’s early brilliance and wonder at his devastating decline—for he began as the poet of the slums and became merely a resident therein.”
Tags: algren centennial, chicago, nelson algren, newcity.com, readings, simone de beauvoir, steppenwolf theatre
