….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 cyborgian Susan Slaviero…
…the fresh-from-Maine Jefferson Navicky…
…the smashing Kelly Haramis and Davis Schneiderman…
…me (and–not pictured because she’s in Boston–Elisa Gabbert)…
…and the hilarious and profane Derek Phillips:
Plus, there was a staged reading of the noir-ish Andrew Farkas’s “Police Procedural” featuring the actorly stylings of Tadd Adcox, Brandon Will, Andrew Farkas, Jacob Knabb, Davis Schneiderman, and Kelly Haramis:
Adam Daniels took a lot more photographs that will probably be available somewhere soon, but for now, I offer you the back of his head:
Thanks and congratulations to Tadd and Rebekah for putting out such a beautiful magazine and for putting on such a killer (seriously, there was a killer on the loose) party.