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SUMMARY:An Evening w/ Kathleen Rooney & Jeremy T. Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with two Chicago novelists to celebrate the release of From Dust to Stardust by Kathleen Rooney and The Quail Who Wears the Shirt by Jeremy T. Wilson! \n\n\n\nKathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press\, and a founding member of Poems While You Wait. Her latest poetry collection\, Where Are the Snows\, won the XJ Kennedy Prize and was published by Texas Review Press in September of 2022\, and her latest novel\, From Dust to Stardust\, was published by Lake Union Press in September of 2023. She lives in Chicago and teaches at DePaul. \n\n\n\nJeremy T. Wilson is the author of the short story collection Adult Teeth and the forthcoming novel The Quail Who Wears the Shirt\, both from Tortoise Books. He is a former winner of the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award for short fiction and his work has appeared in The Carolina Quarterly\, The Florida Review\, Jet Fuel Review\, The Masters Review\, Sonora Review\, Third Coast\, The Best Small Fictions 2020\, and other publications. He teaches creative writing at The Chicago High School for the Arts. 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/an-evening-w-kathleen-rooney-jeremy-t-wilson/
LOCATION:Pilsen Community Books\, 1102 W 18th St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60608\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event
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SUMMARY:An evening with Mario Bellatin: book party for Flowers / The Illustrated Biography of Mishima
DESCRIPTION:7Vientos (7V)\, an independent publishing house located in Chicago\, is releasing two novellas by Mario Bellatin\, one of the greatest writers of contemporary Latin American literature. He has published over forty books and his work has been translated into fifteen different languages. The book now published by 7V is a hardcover “flip” edition housing Bellatin’s work translated to English along with its original Spanish version. This marks the first time his novellas\, Flowers/Flores and The Illustrated Biography of Mishima/Biografía ilustrada de Mishima have been translated into English. \nMario Bellatin has been invited by Guild Literary Complex and 7Vientos to celebrate the release of the book with a presentation in Chicago. The free party will include a reading\, visual art\, music\, and bar. \n  \n7Vientos (7V)\, editorial independiente en Chicago\, estará lanzando dos novelas de Mario Bellatin\, uno de los escritores más prominentes de la literatura contemporánea en Latinoamérica. Bellatin ha publicado más de cuarenta libros\, algunos de los cuales han sido traducidos a quince idiomas distintos. El libro\, ahora publicado por 7V\, es una edición flip\, en tapa dura\, la cual contiene la traducción al inglés y la versión original en español de ambas obras. Esta es la primicia de la publicación de Flores/Flowers y Biografía Ilustrada de Mishima/The Illustrated Biography of Mishima en el idioma inglés. \nPor invitación de Guild Literary Complex y 7Vientos\,  Mario Bellatin estará presente durante el lanzamiento de este libro\, el cual se llevará a cabo el 22 de febrero a las 7pm\, en el Chicago Urban Art Society en el 600 W. Cermak Rd. Complejo 1B. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTIST \nMario Bellatin’s approach to an experimental consciousness marks the standard of convex writing in contemporary Latin American literature. Bellatin was born in Mexico\, grew up in Peru\, and studied screenwriting in Cuba. Among his more well-known works is his book Flowers\, which won the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia in 2001 and will be published together with his novel The Illustrated Biography of Mishima in a “flip” edition by the independent Chicago publishing house 7Vientos. This is the first time that these books will be available in English. \nLa conciencia experimentalista de Mario Bellatin marca la pauta de la palabra convexa en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea. Bellatin nació en México\, creció en el Perú y estudió guión cinematográfico en Cuba. Dentro de sus obras más reconocidas se encuentra su libro titulado Flores (Premio Xavier Villaurrutia 2001)\, el cual es editado ahora en versión flip junto con su fotonovela Biografía Ilustrada de Mishima. Ambas obras aparecen por primera vez en inglés en un mismo libro publicado por la editorial independiente 7Vientos en Chicago. \n  \nABOUT 7VIENTOS \n7Vientos is an independent publisher located in Chicago\, but with roots in Latin America. Since 2010\, its mission has been to promote diversity of thought through translating and publishing works by forgotten and underrepresented authors. \n7Vientos es una editorial independiente con sede Chicago pero con raíces en toda América Latina. Desde el 2010\, 7V busca atender a ese mundo de confluencias que es la América actual. El objetivo es simple: llevar del inglés al español y/o del español al inglés\, textos importantes que por una u otra razón no se encuentran en el otro idioma y así promover la diversidad de culturas e ideologías\, a través de la literatura. \n  \nPARTNERS \n7Vientos \nStory Week\, a program of Columbia College Chicago \nChicago Community Trust \nChicago Urban Art Society
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/an-evening-with-mario-bellatin/
LOCATION:Chicago Urban Art Society\, 600 W. Cermak Rd. Unit 1B\, Chicago
CATEGORIES:Book Event,Story Week 2014
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SUMMARY:An evening with M. Evelina Galang (wsg Angela Narciso Torres)
DESCRIPTION:Angel de la Luna and the 5th Glorious Mystery \nM. Evelina Galang will read from her new young adult novel\, Angel de la Luna and the 5th Glorious Mystery at Women & Children First on Wednesday\, January 8th at 7:30 p.m. in an event co-presented by Guild Literary Complex and Coffee House Press. \nThe novel follows fifteen-year-old Angel after the death of her father and through her family’s move from Manila to Chicago. In grappling with her grief\, Angel becomes heavily involved in the Philippine People Power Revolution\, the only way she can think to help the surviving Filipina “Comfort Women” of WWII. It has been praised as “[A] vivid portrait of a culture” by Kirkus and “ethereal and immersive” by Publishers Weekly. \nAngela Narciso Torres will open the evening with a poetry reading\, and both authors will be available for a Q&A and signing following the event. A wine reception will conclude the evening. \n  \nIn honor of this literary event\, U.S. wireless subscribers can text the word AID to 80108 to give a $10 donation to The mGive Philippines Typhoon Disaster Relief Fund. All contributions will be distributed immediately to relief organizations that are providing food\, water and many other relief services to those most in need in the Philippines. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nM. Evelina Galang \nM. Evelina Galang is the author of Her Wild American Self (Coffee House Press\, 1996) and the novel One Tribe (New Issues Press\, 2006). She has edited the anthology Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images (Coffee House Press\, 2003). Galang teaches in and directs the creative writing program at the University of Miami\, is core faculty for vona/Voices: Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation\, and has been named one of the one hundred most influential Filipinas in the United States by Filipina Women’s Network. \n  \n  \n  \nAngela Narciso Torres \nAngela Narciso Torres is the winner of the Willow Books Literature Award for Poetry. Recent work appears in Cimarron Review\, Colorado Review\, and Cream City Review. A graduate of Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, Angela has received fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council\, Ragdale Foundation\, and Midwest Writing Center. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Manila\, she currently resides in Chicago\, where she teaches poetry workshops and serves as a senior poetry editor for RHINO. \n  \n  \nABOUT OUR PARTNERS \nLocated in Minneapolis\, Minnesota\, Coffee House Press is an independent\, nonprofit literary publisher of fiction\, poetry\, and nonfiction. The mission of Coffee House Press is to publish exciting\, vital\, and enduring authors of our time; to delight and inspire readers; to contribute to the cultural life of our community; and to enrich our literary heritage. More information\, and their full catalog\, is available at: coffeehousepress.org \nWomen & Children First (WCF) began in a modest storefront in 1979. Over the years they moved twice and are now in a northside Chicago neighborhood known for its diversity\, queer-friendliness\, women-owned businesses and community spirit. WCF staffers include teachers\, graduate students\, professional writers and storytellers\, political activists\, board members\, and poets. Each is a reader\, a feminist\, and a bookseller. The purpose in beginning the store 33 years ago was to promote the work of women writers and to create a place in which all women would find books reflecting their lives and interests. WCF strives to do this in an atmosphere in which all are respected\, valued\, and well-served. That remains their purpose still\, online as well as in the store. \nWomen & Children First is one of the largest feminist bookstores in the country\, stocking more than 30\,000 books by and about women\, children’s books for all ages\, and the best of lesbian and gay fiction and non-fiction. Anything not  in stock we usually be available in the store in a few days’ time\, even if it’s a title outside WCF’s specialty. They also carry cards\, magazines\, blank books and journals\, calendars\, CDs\, gift items like candles\, and pride products. More information can be found online at: www.womenandchildrenfirst.com \n  \n 
URL:https://guildcomplex.org/event/an-evening-with-m-evelina-galang/
LOCATION:Women & Children First bookstore\, 5233 N. Clark Street\, Chicago
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