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SUMMARY:Amelia Klem Osterud Reads From The Tattooed Lady: A History
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DESCRIPTION:\nAmelia Klem Osterud is an academic librari¬an from Milwaukee
	 who is working diligently on becoming heavily tattooed. Osterud has a mast
	er’s degree in history from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and w
	rites and lectures on the subject of tattooing. She is the author of “A L
	ife of Her Own Choosing: Artoria Gibbons’ Fifty Years as a [...] [by: liz
	]
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SUMMARY:Troy Taylor Presents The Murder &#038\; Mayhem in Chicago Series
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	he-murder-mayhem-in-chicago-series/
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	der-mayhem-in-chicago-series/
DESCRIPTION:From the North Side to the South\, and from Downtown to the out
	er edge of the West Side\, every Chicago neighborhood has at some point bee
	n home to violence\, gang influence\, and corruption. Local Author Troy Tay
	lor airs all of Chicago’s dirty laundry in this five-part series\, chroni
	cling the infamous destruction of the Great Chicago [...] [by: liz]
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SUMMARY:Oyez Review  #37 Launch Reading
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DESCRIPTION:A new year\, a new Oyez Review and the best issue yet. The subm
	issions have been through the editorial gauntlet\, fire-proofed\, crash-tes
	ted\, and are now ready for readers’ consumption. Contained between these
	 eighty-eight pages are twenty-two inspired pieces of poetry\, four ripping
	 short stories\, one moving non-fiction narrative\, and ten luminous photos
	 on which to [...] [by: liz]
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SUMMARY:Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz Reads From Everything is Everything
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DESCRIPTION:In a recent interior with lit blog Orange Alert\, poet Cristin 
	O’Keefe Aptowicz describes her latest book\, Everything is Everything\, a
	s “an odd\, tender\, spastic\, claustrophobic and bizarre-fact-riddled bo
	ok that is trying to appreciate the journey instead of obsessing about the 
	destination.” But she was also sure to add that “the book also contains
	 a [...] [by: liz]
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SUMMARY:Penny Arcade Reads From BAD REPUTATION
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DESCRIPTION:When asked about her influences\, Penny Arcade points to three 
	enduring sources: growing up Southern Italian\, immigrant\, peasant \,worki
	ng class in New Britain\, Connecticut\, the New England factory town that w
	as a center of working class intellectualism\, her debut at 17 with the gli
	tter\, glam\, rock and roll\, political\, seminal queer\, NY theatre\, The 
	Playhouse [...] [by: liz]
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SUMMARY:Nancy Stohlman Reads From Searching for Suzi
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	m-searching-for-suzi/
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	ching-for-suzi/
DESCRIPTION:What happens when an ex-stripper in her mid-thirties\, married 
	with children\, awakens one day questioning what brought her to a current l
	ife of complicated domesticity? Compelled to return to Omaha after seventee
	n years\, the narrator we only know as Natalie begins a quest into her past
	\, an adventure that takes the reader from childhood beauty [...] [by: liz]
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SUMMARY:Jim Goad Reads From Criminal Class Press
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DESCRIPTION:Jim Goad is the world’s bravest man or so says his wildly hil
	arious politically extreme website JimGoad.net. With an obscenity trial\, a
	 prison sentence and an emergency life-saving brain surgery to his credit h
	e may not be too far off with that claim. Goad is the author of the Red Nec
	k Manifesto a book which [...] [by: liz]
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SUMMARY:Chicago Zine Fest Zine Reading
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DESCRIPTION:Quimby’s Bookstore will help kick off the Chicago Zine Fest b
	y hosting a zine reading\, Friday\, March 12 at 7pm. Reading will be author
	s who span the range of self-publishing\, from minicomics\, to fiction\, to
	 cultural criticism. Three of the Zine Fest’s special guests\, John Porce
	llino\, Anne Elizabeth Moore and Jeffrey Brown will read alongside [...] [b
	y: neil]
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SUMMARY:Nik Jajic and Mike Czerniawski sign The Big Bad Book
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DESCRIPTION:Nik Jajic (co-creator/writer) and Mike Czernaiwski (co-creator/
	additional art/letterer) present to you—the extremely attractive\, and ex
	ceptionally brilliant reader—a twisted comedy that insists on blending ge
	nres\, inducing panic attacks\, and occasionally causing motion sickness\, 
	all in the form of their deliciously perverse new graphic novel The Big Bad
	 Book from Alterna Comics.  It’s been described as [...] [by: liz]
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SUMMARY:J. Bradley Reads From Dodging Traffic
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	ging-traffic/
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	raffic/
DESCRIPTION:J. Bradley points to three enduring sources for his inspiration
	: Jameson\, revenge\, and his wife\, Jelian. Not a likely combination for a
	 poet\, but one that has brought forth Dodging Traffic (Ampersand Books). 
	 Loud\, raucous\, lively: J. Bradley&#8217\;s poetry is widely published an
	d admired\, and\, in this\, his first collection\, he brings the full bore 
	[...] [by: liz]
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SUMMARY:Joyland vs. CellStories: Brian Joseph Davis of Joyland + Dan Sinker
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	rian-joseph-davis-of-joyland-dan-sinker/
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DESCRIPTION:Brian Joseph Davis of Joyland will be reading from Ronald Reaga
	n\, My Father and Dan Sinker of CellStories will present stories from cellp
	hones.\nBy the time Brian Joseph Davis stops in Chicago to promote his new 
	collection of short stories\, Ronald Reagan\, My Father (ECW)\, over half w
	ill have been given away via Chicagoan Dan Sinker’s [...] [by: liz]
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