Monthly Archives: February 2010

Artifice magazine’s lofty launch party…

By Kathleen | Published: February 28, 2010
….last night at Loft 3A… …was packed… …packed… …packed with people… …all there to attend the most highly anticipated literary event of the year to date, the Chicago launch of Artifice magazine, hosted by the lovely and amazing Tadd Adcox… …and Rebekah Silverman… …and read at by the sparkly Tim Jones-Yelvington… …the Marcel-assisted Christopher Phelps….…the [...]
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Out among the Fremdly faces

By Kathleen | Published: February 22, 2010
This morning, I got to read and talk to these students at Fremd High School in Palatine, IL… …and these students… …and these students: Fremd puts on an amazing program annually known as Writers Week. You can learn a lot more about it here, but suffice to say, it’s a seriously awesome event. Before I [...]
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The most beautiful words in the English language are Book Cellar.

By Kathleen | Published: February 18, 2010
Wait. No. They’re “cellar door.” Still, the Book Cellar‘s Local Author night yesterday really was beautiful. After reading from our respective books, Melanie “Alice I Have Been” Benjamin, Cristina “The World in Half” Henriquez, and I provided A’s to the audience’s Q’s about scandals, pedophilia, and dramatic 400-page novel rewrites: The evening was emceed by Brandon [...]
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Shelf Awareness…

By Kathleen | Published: February 4, 2010
…reports that For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs is one of the bestselling paperback nonfiction titles in and near Chicago during the week ending January 24th. Check it out–I’m right there below the book that “redo[es] the world’s most beloved literary classics for the Status Update generation” and above the one that [...]
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