Last night at Open Books in Chicago...

...Open Books Marketing Director Becca Keaty...
...welcomed the audience...
...and apologized for the lack of air conditioning in the store. But that was okay. And it certainly didn't faze Dan Brady...
...of Barrelhouse as he introduced James Tadd Adcox, whose purple mohawk (a product of the Artifice subscription drive) was also unfazed...
Next, I introduced Mary Hamilton. I was so excited about her chapbook coming out this week that my arm got blurry...
Then Mary Hamilton and her sequinned rib shirt read two fantastic stories from We Know What We Are...
...and then Simone Muench and Philip Jenks read from their collaborative work... ...and last but not least, a feathery Tim Jones-Yelvington read one story from his forthcoming chapbook, Evan's House and the Other Boys Who Live There, sans props...
...and his second story with slime!

Thanks to Open Books for hosting us, and thanks to our lovely audience... ...for sweating it out for the sake of independent literature!