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IN CHICAGO:

SO YOU THINK YOU HAVE NERVES OF STEEL?
WHERE: Whistler, 2421 N.Milwaukee, Logan Square, Chicago
WHEN: Monday, Feb. 8, 8 PM (readings at 9)

FEATURING
The Slide author Kyle Beachy
Kate Duva, author of our latest broadsheet
& recent THE2NDHAND contributor Irene Westcott
w/ host Harold Ray (aka ACM fiction editor and THE2NDHAND coeditor Jacob Knabb)

Readings will be preceded by musical from a trio of Nora Barton on cello and Eliza Bangert and Allie Deaver on flute. Billie Howard of Paver assists.

This is the second in THE2NDHAND's regular monthly series, wherein one featured writer a month riffs on the question in the reading's title -- so you think you have nerves of steel? -- in whatever manner he or she deems appropriate. Consider it a sort of extended experimental collaboration in the style of our Pitchfork Battalion series, spread out over 12 months. Expect verbal, and perhaps literal, fireworks throughout. The rest, well, we hope you expect good things. We do.

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS:
Kyle Beachy lives and writes in Chicago. His first novel, The Slide is at once an offbeat love story, a moving portrait of a family in crisis, and a darkly funny American comedy. Check out THE2NDHAND editor Todd Dills' interview with him here.

Kate Duva has been plying the brains of THE2NDHAND readers for several years now, and her characteristic stylistic mix of arch-weird and arch-real in story makes for an explosively brittle manifestation of reality in her "Life of the Frontier," the featured story in THE2NDHAND's broadsheet no. 33, released this year. Duva lives and writes in Chicago.

Chicago writer Irene Westcott's fiction and essays have appeared in numerous magazine in addition to THE2NDHAND, such as the Baltimore Review, LITnIMAGE, Blue Earth Review, Pure Francis, Literary Bohemian and Bullfight Review. She has an M.A. in writing from Northwestern University.

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IN NASHVILLE:

BRICK | a reading series launches!
7 p.m. Friday, Mar 12, 2009
Portland Brew, 1921 Eastland Ave., Nashville

Hosted by THE2NDHAND editor Todd Dills with an assist by Keyhole Magazine and Press publisher Peter Cole, BRICK is a coproduction that every other month will feature Nashville, regional and touring prose writers -- you'll undoubtedly recognize many in coming months from these halls, including the three featured in the first edition, tip-top, from north to south:

Louisville, Ky., writer Jason Jordan is author of two collections forthcoming from avant-garde Six Gallery Press, Cloud and Other Stories and Powering the Devil's Circus, the last a novella paired with several shorts which is a strangely delightful mix of sincerity and absurdity -- each half bolstering the power of the other -- with an honesty of gesture uncommon in these times of narrative duplicity. His work has been published widely, including in both Keyhole and THE2NDHAND. Find him on Facebook or at the site for the online magazine he founded and continues to edit, decomP.

East Nashville's own Eric Durchholz is the man behind the recently released novel Heartless, set in and around the bars and shuffling masses at Woodland and 11th and... that other street. A veteran of the nascent Nashville performance scene, Durchholz is also the author of the novels iNVERSION and The Promise of Eden, working as a graphic artist in multimedia. For an excerpt from Heartless, visit heartless.me or the excerpt we published several months back.

Prose writer and teacher Lydia Ship lives in Atlanta, where she's likewise a contributing editor to the Chattahoochee Review; her stories, including flash fiction running with the weirdly sublime feel of a good D. Barthelme joint, have appeared in numerous magazines, including THE2NDHAND as well as Neon, A Capella Zoo, Pedestal, Night Train, New South and others.

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