You say You say You say You say You say One for the trouble Two for the time Come on QUICKIES! let rock that

Whew! It's taken some time to recover from the fun that was the August 12th QUICKIES! We had a wicked awesome line-up, a super crowd, and cupcakes!

Let's get to the pics, shall we?



Lindsay and Mary "banter:"


J.T. Litchfield:


James Lower:




Mary Hamilton:


Colt Foutz:

Geoffrey Forsyth (buy his book, it's real real good):




Lindsay "The Hottness" Hunter:


Jill Summers:


Elizabeth Crane:





See ya next month!!



Our next reading is Tuesday, September 9th, and we can't wait!

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They like us! They really like us!

Check it out!

We've been Time Out Chicago approved!



The kind Jonathan Messinger wrote about our Tuesday night reading.

You can read the blog post here.

Thanks Jonathan!




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Yo VIP let's kick it one time boyeeeee.... All right stop collaborate and listen QUICKIES! is back with a brand new invention.

QUICKIES!

TONIGHT!


featuring:
Elizabeth Crane
Jill Summers
Geoffrey Forsyth
Colt Foutz
James Lower
JT Litchfield
Mary Hamilton
and Lindsay Hunter



August 12
The Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL
7:30pm


And check out a short article about Quickies! here! woot. woot. Thanks Robert!



Bring it.

My-my-my-my music hits me so hard makes me say, Oh my Lord! Thank you, for blessing JT LITCHFIELD with a mind to rhyme and two hype feet.

August 12th reader:

JT LITCHFIELD

Skipped class in high school to read bad fantasy novels.
Attended DePaul University and studied bad English Literature.


Quickies!
August 12
Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL
7:30pm



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Shawty had them Apple Bottom jeans (jeans), boots with the fur (with the fur!). The whole club was lookin' at JAMES LOWER.

August 12th reader:

JAMES LOWER

James Lower should be working on his first short story collection and a memoir about his early childhood. His writing has appeared in the Santa Clara Review and as a Featherproof mini. He hopes it will become increasingly strange that you haven't read his work in the coming decade. Start now at www.jameslower.net.


Quickies!
August 12
Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL
7:30pm



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Which one, pick one, this one, classic. Red from blonde, yeah COLT FOUTZ is drastic.

August 12th reader:

COLT FOUTZ

Colt Foutz is the recipient of Follett and Getz fellowships in the MFA/MA fiction writing/teaching writing program at Columbia College Chicago. He worked as a newspaper reporter and columnist for six years, earning numerous national and state awards for his writing. His nonfiction book, Building the Green Machine, is available now nationwide. Look Colt up on Facebook, MySpace or at the book's site: www.cavaliersbook.com.


Quickies!
August 12
Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL
7:30pm



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If you havin' girl problems I feel bad for you son. I've got 99 problems, but GEOFFREY FORSYTH ain't one.

August 12th reader:

GEOFFREY FORSYTH

Geoffrey Forsyth is a graduate of The University of Iowa, The University of Vermont, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His fiction has appeared in Other Voices, New Orleans Review, CutBank,RHINO, and several other literary magazines. His story "Mud" appeared in the 2007 Norton Anthology: New Sudden Fiction. His story "Coins" received and Illinois Arts Council Literary Award in 2008. He lives with his wife and two children in La Grange Park, Illinois.


Quickies!
August 12
Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL
7:30pm



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JILL SUMMERS time....and the livin' is easy....

August 12th reader:

JILL SUMMERS

Jill's audio fiction has been featured internationally by Chicago Public Radio, the Third Coast International Audio Festival, and New Adventures in Sound Art. Her work has appeared in Stop Smiling Magazine, Ninth Letter, Annalemma, This 'Zine Will Change Your Life, and The 2nd Hand and is forthcoming in littleBANG, RAGAD, and Please-Don't. She is the author of two collections of audio shorts, Cohabitation and Les Petites Tristes: Tiny Tales of Woe.

Jill has received the Weisman Grant and an IL Arts Council Literary Award; is a two time Caxton Club Fellow; and was recently awarded a CAAP grant to produce a new collection of audio shorts. Her first play, In the Curious Hold of the Demeter: Count Orlock at Sea, was awarded a Henson Grant to be produced by The Incurable Theater this Fall at the Chicago Cultural Center. You can find her at www.callingallmonkeys.com.

Quickies!
August 12
Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL
7:30pm

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Ring the alarm. I been through this too long. I'll be damned if I see another ELIZABETH CRANE on your arm.

August 12th reader:


ELIZABETH CRANE

Elizabeth Crane is the author of three collections of short stories, When the Messenger is Hot, All this Heavenly Glory, and You Must Be This Happy to Enter. Her work has also been featured in publications including Other Voices, fivechapters, Ecotone, Nerve, Washington Square, New York Stories, Sycamore Review, Mississippi Review, Florida Review, Eclipse, Bridge, Sonora Review, the Chicago Reader, the Believer, McSweeney’s Future Dictionary of America, and several anthologies including The Best Underground Fiction, Loser, and Who Can Save Us Now? Her stories have been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts, and she is a recipient of the Chicago Public Library 21st Century Award. Her work has been adapted for the stage by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater company, and also been adapted for film. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute and the University of Chicago. This fall she will be writer-in-residence at the University of Texas at Austin.


Quickies!
August 12
Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL
7:30pm



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Thanks, Mr. Dew!

Quite the interesting interview with past Quickies! reader (and forever Quickies! friend), Spencer Dew, at Everyday Yeah. Spencer even has a few kind words for Quickies! aw shucks.

Everyday Yeah is a pretty nifty site. Take some time and browse around a bit.



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