Wannabe is a blog series by Chicago area artist Chris Prunckle. Check back next week for a new posting.
Book Fort Fair at Curbside Books & Records — November 19
On November 19, Book Fort hosts the bi-annual Book Fort Fair at Curbside Books & Records in Revival Food Hall. Join us for an afternoon of bookselling, mingling, and drinking!
Saturday, November 19
11 am - 4 pm
Curbside Books & Records (in Revival Food Hall)
125 S Clark St, Chicago
The Book Fort Fair will host 20+ indie publishers, record labels, and literary organizations, plus an all-day DJ, literary-themed cocktails, a screenprinting workshop, a button making station hosted by Busy Beaver, and live typewriter poetry courtesy of Poems While You Wait. Phew, what a lineup! And admission is free!
A partial list of participating organizations: Curbside Splendor, Allium Press, 7Vientos, Featherproof Books, Poetry Foundation, Soberscove Press, 826Chi, Rose Metal Press, Belt Publishing, Lake Claremont Press, The Point magazine, Tortoise Books, Poems While You Wait, Busy Beaver, Read Write Library, and Midwestern Gothic.
Book Fort is a wandering book fair that takes places each year at a handful of festivals. We're interested in the intersection of literature, music, and performance, and we seek to create meaningful interactions between communities, independent publishers, and literary organizations.
See you there!
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Wannabe is a blog series by Chicago area artist Chris Prunckle documenting his trials and tribulations as a wannabe artist. Check back next week for a new posting.
Chris Prunckle is a graphic designer, illustrator and comic book artist banished to the suburbs of Chicago. Though an advertising industry minion by day, he slaves his nights away creating a mad little world. He’s previously worked on the comics Fisted, Bonesetter, and The Scarab. Follow him at @midjipress.