Author Archives: Kathleen
Dirty thirty
Today is my birthday, and so, for no other reason, really, than that everyone keeps telling me your thirties are when you suddenly turn super-confident and can just really “go for it” and do what you want, here are some links to some loosely me-affiliated things from around the old Internet, including:
An interview about the [...]
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Artifice magazine’s lofty launch party…
….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 [...]
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Out among the Fremdly faces
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 went on [...]
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The most beautiful words in the English language are Book Cellar.
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 Will [...]
Shelf Awareness…
…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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Women and Children First hears it first
“It” being the the inaugural reading from For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs. Because last night was the launch of the book, the store encouraged us to bring snacks, the better to promote a party atmosphere. It appeared to work. Here, the cover birds lounge amid fruit, cheese, wine, and homemade shortbread [...]
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Win, Lose or Draw.
Proudly representing Featherproof Books, James Kennedy emerged from last night’s epic Literary Death Match triumphant. Before that, though, there was a lot of quipping and hand-waving from inimitable LDM host Todd Zuniga…
…as well as some inspired judging by Shawn “Shawnimals” Smith, Jessica “Girls Guide to Rocking” Hopper, and yours truly. We huddled very seriously to [...]
The Sunday Washington Post…
…contains a review of For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs by Justin Moyer.
“”I don’t know what I’m in the process of becoming,” Kathleen Rooney concludes after contemplating her bikini wax in this uneven essay collection that glorifies its author’s 20-something ennui. “I just know that I’m going there with very little hair down [...]
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Sexy time.
The San Francisco Bay Guardian includes Live Nude Girl in its list of 10 Sexy Books Published in 2009, where by “sexy” they mean: “If sexy is to be taken by its dictionary definition as ’sexually interesting or exciting,’ then the following ten decidedly qualify. Some are sexy for their potent ability to raise readerly [...]
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Switchback’s house = warmed.