Halloween recovery reading: Stephen Elliot, Gina Frangello, Joe Meno

October 31, 6:38 AMChicago Literary Scene ExaminerRobert Duffer

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Since Halloween is the new New Years, MAKE Magazine presents a reading with complimentary comfornt food Jimmy John's samiches on Sunday (11/1/09). Not to be outdone by bread and coldcuts, the Dia de los Muertos reading at Quimby's(1854 W. North) features the Chicago indie literary triumvirate at 3pm: Stephen Elliott, Gina Frangello, and Joe Meno. Featherproof books and TOC Books editor Jonathan Messinger hosts.

Stephen Elliott is the author of seven books including The Adderall Diaries which has been described as "genius" by both the San Francisco Chronicle and Vanity Fair. His novel, Happy Baby, was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lion Award as well as a best book of the year in Salon.com, Newsday, New City, the Journal News, and the Village Voice. In 2004 he wrote Looking Forward To It, about the quest for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Elliott's writing has been featured in Esquire, The New York Times, GQ, Best American Non-Required Reading 2005 and 2007, Best American Erotica, and Best Sex Writing 2006. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and is a member of the San Francisco Writer's Grotto. He is the editor of The Rumpus. stephenelliott.com
 

The current issue of MAKE features an interview with Stephen and Dave Daley of fivechapters.com by Green Lantern Gallery and Press's Caroline Picard.
 

Gina Frangello is the author of the novel My Sister's Continent (Chiasmus 2006) and the forthcoming short story collection Slut Lullabies (Emergency Press 2010.) The long time Editor of Other Voices magazine, she co-founded its book imprint Other Voices Books in 2005 and is currently the Executive Editor of its Chicago office. Her short fiction has appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies including Prairie Schooner, StoryQuarterly, Clackamas Literary Review, Swink, the Chicago Reader and Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader (Soft Skull). Gina also is co-Editor of The Nervous Breakdown's new online Fiction Section. She guest-edited the anthology Falling Backwards: Stories of Fathers and Daughters (Hourglass 2004) and blogs at The Huffington Post . She currently teaches in the Fiction Writing department at Columbia College Chicago and at Northwestern University's School of Continuing Studies' MFA program. Her website is www.ginafrangello.com.
 

Joe Meno is a fiction writer and playwright who lives in Chicago. A winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, the Great Lakes Book Award, the Society of Midland Authors Fiction Prize, and a finalist for the Story Prize, he is the author of five novels, The Great Perhaps (W.W. Norton 2009) The Boy Detective Fails (Akashic 2006), Hairstyles of the Damned (Akashic 2004), How the Hula Girl Sings (HarperCollins 2001) and Tender As Hellfire (St. Martin's 1999). His short-story collections are Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir (TriQuarterly 2005) and Demons in the Spring (Akashic 2008.) His non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times and Chicago Magazine. He was a contributing editor to the now-defunct Punk Planet magazine and currently teaches at Columbia College Chicago. joemeno.com

Quimby's 3pm-4:30pm; all ages; I suspect there will be donation possibilities but there's no posted amount; Fall back: don't forget to set your clocks back.