Simone Muench in The Believer
Many congrats to Switchback Advisory Board member Simone Muench for making the cover of the September issue (Issue 74) of The Believer! Daniel Handler interviews Simone on her ardent love of horror movies:
"[Horror] provides a transgressive space for women—we get so caught off guard by horror's frequent showcase of tits and ass, where there exists run-of-the-mill misogyny—what I refer to as Hustler Horror—that we often miss the ways in which horror films create a space for w
Elizabeth Hildreth + Lippman + Lasky + Sweeney get Bookslutty
Switchback's very own Elizabeth Hildreth has two interviews and a review up in the 100th issue (!!) of Bookslut this month:
An Interview with Matthew Lippman
"I have always believed that my poems were little TV commercials, ultimately. I think that is what I aspire to because I want them to be accessible to everyone. It would be fantastic if poems could take the place of television. It would be fantastic if the experience of watching TV and reading a poem was similar. In a w
Silver Tongue + The Encyclopedia Show
Should you need a poetry fix before our salon on October 2nd, our friends at the Silver Tongue are holding a reading next week in conjunction with the Encyclopedia Show.
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA SHOW <3>
Date: Wednesday, September 29th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: The Conaway Center, 1104 S Wabash Ave
Contact: Devan Perine dmarieperine@gmail.com More Info: Free and open to the public! www.facebook.com/silvertonguecolumbia
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Switchback Salon & Fundraiser Saturday 10/2!
SWITCHBACK BOOKS PRESENTS A Salon & Fundraiser with readings and talks by Arielle Greenberg on the Gurlesque and Rock Music Becca Klaver on Songs for Girls in their 20s Dolly Lemke on Best American Honesty Sarah Carson on Awful Country Western Music Music, literature, talks, and snacks. Midwestern microbrews from Saugatuck Brewing Co. PLUS: An 18-liter bottle of wine! Saturday, October 2, 2010 4745 N. Beacon St. #3S Chicago, IL Doors at 7:00 p.m. Salon at 8:00 p.m. $10 donati
Switchbacker Dolly Lemke in BAP
Congratulations to Dolly Lemke, whose poem "I never went to that movie at 12:45" is in the newly released The Best American Poetry 2010, edited by Amy Gerstler! Also featured in the 2010 edition are Switchback favorites Sandra Beasley, Anne Carson, Tim Dlugos, Denise Duhamel, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Terrance Hayes, Alice Notley, and Adrienne Rich, among others. In addition, Switchback mentor David Trinidad has a poem from the current issue of Tin House included. Congrats to a
2010 Gatewood Prize Winner
Switchback Books is pleased to announce the winner of the 2010 Gatewood Prize, chosen by Cathy Park Hong: ***Jennifer Tamayo's the hanging cloud of read mistakes*** Welcome, JT, to the Switchback family! Thanks to everyone who submitted for making this year's decision especially challenging and for giving us all this fabulous reading material to feed on these past few months. We received a record number of manuscripts this year and were absolutely knocked over by the number o
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