Writers riff on the question — 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 AUTHORS:
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.
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.
With host Harold Ray (aka ACM fiction editor and THE2NDHAND co-editor 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.