Posted in RAGAD on September 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
MoJoe’s has always been good to RAGAD; last night was no exception. CT Ballentine’s band Cup N’String opened the show with a half hour set, finger-picking guitar at it’s finest, forlorn cello lines boomingly backing up whining vocals. Upbeat songs, sad songs, great songs. Big thanks to the band for coming out. Buy their new [...]
Posted in Day to day, RAGAD on September 29, 2007 | No Comments »
RAGAD # 4 RELEASE READING, PART II
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 7:00 PM
MOJOE’S HOTHOUSE
2849 W BELMONT AVE
CHICAGO, IL
FREE
FEATURING: Spencer Dew (author of the forthcoming collection Songs of Insurgency, due from Vagabond Press in early 2008), CT Ballentine (audio editor at THE2NDHAND), and RAGAD editor Nick Ostdick. Special performance by Ballentine’s musical venture Cup N’String. Music at 7:00 [...]
Posted in RAGAD on September 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Don’t forget about this Saturday!
RAGAD # 4 RELEASE READING, PART II
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 7:00 PM
MOJOE’S HOTHOUSE
2849 W BELMONT AVE
CHICAGO, IL
FREE
FEATURING: Spencer Dew (author of the forthcoming collection Songs of Insurgency, due from Vagabond Press in early 2008), CT Ballentine (audio editor at THE2NDHAND), and RAGAD editor Nick Ostdick. Special performance by Ballentine’s musical venture Cup [...]
Posted in RAGAD on September 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Don’t forget about this Saturday!
RAGAD # 4 RELEASE READING, PART II
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 7:00 PM
MOJOE’S HOTHOUSE
2849 W BELMONT AVE
CHICAGO, IL
FREE
FEATURING: Spencer Dew (author of the forthcoming collection Songs of Insurgency, due from Vagabond Press in early 2008), CT Ballentine (audio editor at THE2NDHAND), and RAGAD editor Nick Ostdick. Special performance by Ballentine’s musical venture Cup [...]
Posted in Day to day on September 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »
(from Akashic Books)
Demons in the Spring
stories by Joe Meno
with twenty original illustrations
Fiction/Short Stories/Art | ISBN-13: 978-1-933354-47-7
300 pages | $24.95 | Forthcoming: August 2008
Nationwide tour dates TBA
*Limited edition of 4000 in HARDCOVER*
Twenty new Meno stories accompanied by twenty original pieces of art by twenty different groundbreaking visual artists.
“The power is in the writing. Mr. Meno is [...]
Posted in Day to day on September 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
by Chicago-badass Jonathan Messinger now here. Check it out. Not sure if it is going to be in his forthcoming collection Hiding Out, but a great story nonetheless.
Posted in RAGAD on September 23, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Earlier this evening, we traveled to Chicago, Quimby’s to be more precise, for RAGAD’s INTERSECTIONS Reading, that’s right, the one we have been hyping here for a long time. The evening started off on a somewhat unbalanced note. First we got a wonderfully crafted parking ticket which prompted us to move the car. However, in [...]
Posted in RAGAD on September 22, 2007 | No Comments »
RAGAD presents INTERSECTIONS: A READING FROM THE STREETS. Join local authors for a night of readings, both fictive and non, based on Chicago street intersections and locales. Come listen and see how the roads you travel inspire others. This event doubles as a release party for RAGAD 4, which features a short called “The Landing” [...]
Posted in Day to day on September 20, 2007 | No Comments »
Good friend and fine scribe Jason Jordan is being interviewed right now over at Orange Alert. He is a cool guy. Check it. Don’t forget about the Quimby’s show this weekend. How could you though, as I’m going to post one more reminder very soon.
Posted in RAGAD on September 18, 2007 | No Comments »
RAGAD presents INTERSECTIONS: A READING FROM THE STREETS
Date: Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Quimby’s
Participants: Pete Coco, Scott Stealey, Ben Tanzer, C.T. Ballentine, Nick Ostdick
(on their website, a few sauage links are picture here)
We’re not calling this a literary sausage fest, but we would if we were a different sort of website. Pete Coco and [...]
