I want my $2!!!!!

Jac Jemc's new chapbook, A HEAVEN GONE, is available now from ML Press!! It's a measly $2 and as far as I can tell, shipping is free. Get your copy before they sell out!

Also newly out from ML Press is SOME OF THE LETTERS THAT WERE CUT, BUT THAT TELL EVEN MORE OF THE STORY OF JONATHAN BENDER, WEATHERMAN (b. 1967-d. 1999) by Michael Kimball and LIKE IT WAS HER PLACE by future Quickies! reader, Kim Chinquee. 

When I say m! you say lady!

Mary Hamilton has a great new story up at Thieves Jargon! Check it out here and then when you see Mlle. Hamilton, slap her on the ass with glee!!

Put your pants on for SAUSAGE FEST!!!

All I'm saying is we are the voice of a generation. That's all.

Check out the current issue of TIME OUT CHICAGO (December 18-31).

QUICKIES! is listed as the best reading series of 2008!

Gosh, our cheeks are blushing.

Thanks, TIME OUT!



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It's me, Ma. You ain't dreamin. Starstruck MARY HAMILTON, JAC JEMC, AMY GUTH & TIM HALL damn near stopped breathin...

Quickies! Bostonian wife Mary Hamilton, along with past readers Jac Jemc and Amy Guth AND future reader Tim Hall, will be reading at the Orange Alert Reading series Monday, December 15 at The Whistler, 2421 N. Milwaukee, at 7 p.m.! This kind of lineup doesn't come along too often, so make sure you don't miss it!

This TOBIAS AMADON BENGELSDORF harrassed the whole neighborhood...

Quickies! mascot Toby Bengelsdorf has a Featherproof mini-book just waiting to be downloaded, folded, and treasured for all eternity. It includes some of the best Zach Plague design work I've seen yet! Check it out!

T to the H to the A-N-K Y-O-U!!!

Thank you! For making it through the snow to the show on Tuesday!

It was well worth the trek, thanks to you!

Mascot

Mandy Hobomeier

Shannon Schmidt

Mary Hamilton

Melanie Datz

Lindsay Hunter

Margaret Chapman

James Kennedy

Next month is SAUSAGE FEST
an all-male line-up
will they be able to even come close to the awesome wonder that was Ladies Night?!



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QUICKIES: It's such a good vibration, it's such a sweet sensation

featuring: 

James Kennedy

Margaret Chapman

Shannon Schmidt

Melanie Datz

Mandy Hobmeier

Mary Hamilton

and Lindsay Hunter

QUICKIES!

Tuesday, December 9

The Innertown Pub

1935 W Thomas

Chicago, IL.

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On the house tip is how MANDY HOBMEIER swingin' this

MANDY HOBMEIER

Mandy Hobmeier is a writer and student living in Chicago.

QUICKIES!

Tuesday, December 9

7:30pm

The Innertown Pub

1935 W Thomas

Chicago, IL

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Marky Mark and I'm here to move you. Rhythms will groove MARGARET CHAPMAN

MARGARET CHAPMAN

Margaret Chapman is a writer and teacher who lives in Chicago. She enjoys fish tacos, which sounds dirty (really it's not) and writing stories about dead people.

QUICKIES

Tuesday, December 9

7:30pm

The Innertown Pub

1935 W Thomas

Chicago, IL

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Hold up wait a minute don't go there, 'cuz I ain't your hooooooo...ly smokes, look at all this talent!

Quickies! contributor Jac Jemc has a story in the new Caketrain (also featuring SAIC prof and the source of many wet dreams, Sara Levine!)! I've already ordered my copy and I can't wait to get my dirty, dirty hands on it. Mlle. Jemc also has a story at Dogzplot and a 50-word story and interview (MH/LH shout-out, what?) at Nick Ostdick's blog.

Any other Quickies! contributors with good news? Email it to quickieschicagoATgmailDOTcom and we'll put it up here faster than you can say "Those are some fast sluts!"

Bringing this to the entire nation, Black, white, red, brown, feel the JAMES KENNEDY

JAMES KENNEDY

James Kennedy lives in Humboldt Park. His first novel, "The Order of Odd-Fish," was published by Random House's Delacorte Books in August.

QUICKIES

Tuesday, December 9

7:30pm

The Innertown Pub

1935 W Thomas

Chicago, IL

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Strictly Hip-Hop, MELANIE DATZ, I ain't singin this.

MELANIE DATZ

Melanie Datz is a student in the MFA program at Columbia College Chicago. Her fiction has appeared in Night Train, The First Line, and the anthology Open to Interpretation. She remains traumatized by a year spent waiting tables.

QUICKIES

Tuesday, December 9

7:30pm

The Innertown Pub

1935 W Thomas

Chicago, IL

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YO! It's about that time to bring forth the rhythm and the SHANNON SCHMIDT.

SHANNON SCHMIDT

Shannon Schmidt is a writer and installation artist finishing up her final (whew) year at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been writing fiction that explores myth and the mundane, as well as another project, dealing with public space in Chicago and its relationship to found speech.

QUICKIES!

Tuesday, December 9

7:30 pm

The Innertown Pub

1935 W Thomas

Chicago, IL

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