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As we blogged here, our author Michael Czyzniejewski (Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions) was on NPR WBEZ Chicago 91.5's Eight Forty-Eight show as a featured guest.  You can read about the show and listen to a podcast at the link below.  Thanks!

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Eight Forty-Eight:  Chicago Stories

We are so excited to announce that toward the end of next year, in the fall of 2013, we're going to publish the debut book by the extraordinary Chicago writer and performer Samantha Irby.  It'll be our first entry in the creative non-fiction category.  We're huge fans of Samantha and are eager to work with her to achieve her artistic vision.  Get a glimpse of Samantha and the book below, and stay tuned for updates!

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BIO:

Samantha Irby is a writer and performer who mostly makes jokes about hot dudes, diarrhea, kittens, and magical tacos on the internet at bitchesgottaeat.com. Seriously. Go read it. In addition to co-hosting The Sunday Night Sex Show, a sex-positive live lit show, she has performed at Essay Fiesta, Write Club, This Much is True, Grown Folks Stories, The Paper Machete, and Story Club, among others. She opened for Baratunde Thurston during his "How to Be Black" tour. She has been profiled in the Chicago Sun-Times as well as in Time Out Chicago, and her work has appeared on The Rumpus and Jezebel. Samantha and partner Ian Belknap write a comedy advice blog at irbyandian.com.

BOOK SUMMARY:

Samantha's book will be a brand-new collection of essays about being a complete dummy who is trying to laugh her way through how absolutely ridiculous life is. There will be some happy stories and a couple sad ones, but they will all be told with the same wit and candor that people have come to expect from her blog, bitchesgottaeat.com.

Michael Czyzniejewski, author of our latest critically acclaimed book Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions will be on NPR-Chicago WBEZ Ch. 91.5 this Thursday morning.  He'll be a guest on the program "Eight Forty Eight" hosted by Tony Sarabia between 9am and 10am CST.  The theme of the segment will be Chicago Music.  Michael will discuss his favorite Chicago songs and his book.  Chicago Stories is a fantastic collection of forty fictional monologues each told in the voice of a famous Chicagoan or Chicago icon.  Read all about the book here and be sure to tune in on Thursday! 

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*Photo by Stephanie Bassos, Chicago-based photographer.

Franki Elliot is a 20-something author from Chicago and blogs for us every Monday.  Curbside published her first book Piano Rats (October 2011). We are publishing her second book in late spring 2013.  For more Franki typewriter stories visit http://frankielliottypewriter.tumblr.com/

In Curbside Sounds we feature authors we dig reading their work or telling a story while sitting on a curb or their favorite bench, at a bar in the middle of a lazy afternoon, at a recording studio, and sometimes at home.  For this installment we've got Chicago author Mark R. Brand reading an excerpt from his science fiction novel Life After Sleep (CCLaP).  This was recorded at Brand's home in (sub)urban Chicago. This is a stop on Mark's current virtual blog tour.

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'Life After Sleep' excerpt by Mark R. Brand by Curbside Splendor