Kathleen Rooney

  • Home
  • Man Overboard!
  • Lillian Boxfish
  • Other Books
    • Fiction
    • Nonfiction
    • Poetry
    • Collaborations
  • Events
  • Reviews
  • About
  • Contact Me
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  

Archives for March 2013

Last night in Chicago…

March 3, 2013 by KR

…I did the fourteenth ever reading from Robinson Alone in the Dark of the Male, Light of the Female: Women Writing About Horrible Things series at Uncharted Books. The inimitable Meghan Lamb…005

…put together an amazing line-up of readers including Tovah Burstein, who read a delicious poem-essay-poem sandwich…

003

…Jamie Kazay (you say it Kaz-EYE, you guys)…012

…Hillary Stone, who (pictured here with Mason Johnson) sang a rollicking folk song about back-alley abortion…015

…Caroline Picard, who read a super-smart piece of art criticism and wore an incredible fur hat…017

…Tim Jones-Yelvington, who read about sequins…019

…and Olivia Lilley, who did a staged reading of the first part of a very funny play in progress, but she did it in the almost pitch-dark so I don’t have pictures. I also don’t have pictures of me reading, so here, please have this photograph instead. I call it “Birthday Self-Portrait with Mustache, Cole’s Bar, 3.2.13:”026

While I’m at it, please also have this picture of Ramona, the bookstore dog…024

…and the beautiful…007

…beautiful…008

audience: 009

Thanks to everyone who came out to hear literature and song and drama on what happened to be my birthday!

Filed Under: News

« Previous Page
Next Page »

About Kathleen Rooney

Follow Kathleen on Bluesky

Follow Kathleen on Goodreads

Other Books

Fiction - Non Fiction - Poetry - Collaborations

© 2026 Kathleen Rooney