Artist Dottie Quick's Opening Reception "Ballerinas and Bombs", May 24
05/24/2012 7:00 pm
05/24/2012 8:00 pm
Ballerinas and Bombs
Free Opening Reception for artist
Dottie Quick
Exhibit will be up through July 15
Dottie Quick is a Saint Louis native. She graduated from Webster University with a Bachelor's in Business with an Emphasis in Economics in 2000. Dottie served as the Marketing Coordinator for Springboard (formally Young Audiences of St. Louis) from 2001 to 2007. She is currently part of the team at A Fresh Web Design.
Her playful original art includes one of a kind paintings, unique photographs, handmade fabric art and quirky home decor. She also enjoys mixing salvaged materials with digital media to create original works.
For this exhibit I was inspired by a seemingly lovely, graceful image - the ballerina - placed in a situation that would expose her jealousy. Using a touch of snarky humor, I wanted people to think about the malice that can be just below the surface of something beautiful.
Keep up with her at DottieQ.com.
Location:
- Street:
- Subterranean Books
- Additional:
- 6275 Delmar Blvd
- City:
- Saint Louis ,
- Province:
- Missouri
- Postal Code:
- 63130-4716
- Country:
- United States
Nick Reding Discussion & Signing for "Methland", May 31
05/31/2012 7:00 pm
One of the most disturbing passages I've ever heard was Nick Reding reading from Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town on NPR. We are thrilled to welcome him to the U City Public Library for a discussion and signing of this fascinating book.
Based on Reding's four years of reporting in the agricultural town of Oelwein, Iowa, and tracing the connections to the global forces that set the stage for the meth epidemic, Methland offers a vital perspective on a contemporary tragedy. It is a portrait of a community under siege, of the lives that meth has devastated, and of the heroes who continue to fight the war.
Interview with Nick Reding in Huffington Post.
Nick Reding is the author of The Last Cowboys at the End of the World, and his writing has appeared in Outside, Food and Wine, and Harper's. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he decided to move back to his home town in the course of reporting this book.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
Location:
- Street:
- University City Public Library
- Additional:
- 6701 Delmar Blvd
- City:
- Saint Louis ,
- Province:
- Missouri
- Postal Code:
- 63130-4716
- Country:
- United States
Noir at the Bar
$12.00
And lookit...it's got a trailer
Richard Thomas (Contributor), Jedediah Ayers (Editor), Scott Phillips (Editor), Laura Benedict (Contributor), Sean Doolittle (Contributor), Matt Kindt (Contributor), Anthony Neil Smith (Contributor), Malachi Stone (Contributor), Chris La Tray (Contributor), Rod Wiethop (Contributor), Matthew McBride (Contributor), Cameron Ashley (Contributor), Daniel O'Shea (Contributor), Kyle Minor (Contributor), Frank Bill (Contributor), Pinckney Benedict (Contributor), Jonathan Woods (Contributor), Derek Nikita (Contributor)
"Come on in and please grab yourself a drink or two before we start, you'll want to brace yourself for these stories of crime and transgression from the scourge of St. Louis's literate."
—Noir at the Bar
WARM REACTIONS TO N@B FROM PILLARS OF THE CRIME FICTION COMMUNITY:
"I've told you repeatedly that I do not give blurbs and in any event, I wouldn't dream of giving one for this piece of crap. Don't even think of using my name or any words of mine to promote this drivel."
—Lawrence Block, author of A DROP OF THE HARD STUFF
"I'm not sure what offends me more about this morally and intellectually bankrupt venture—the waste of good booze, or the complete lack of entertainment value? Fuck these guys. Fuck them in their nostrils."
—Duane Swierczynski, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of POLE POSITION: A MEMOIR
"Short of climbing into a wringer box during a live magic act staged by Leopold and Loeb, it is hard to imagine a venue in which I'd less like to appear. And yet I've never been asked."
—Megan Abbott, author of THE END OF EVERYTHING
"Noir at the Bar is to crime fiction what Michael Jordan was...to crime fiction."
—Todd Robinson, editor of THUGLIT
"A collection of drunken scribbles lifted from beer coasters and restroom walls. Dark days indeed when barflies from flyover country are the keepers of the noir flame."
—Roger Smith, author of DUST DEVILS
"I hear that lost of fighting and fucking goes on at these things. Or there would, if anybody gave a shit enough to invite me. Stay classy, bitches."
—Tom Piccirilli, author of THE COLD SPOT
"Been hearing about these goings-on in St. Louis. I live a cool thousand miles away. And I'm thinking maybe that's too close."
—Stephen Graham Jones, author of THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY
"Like...it...full of...Good..."
—Sara Gran, author of CLAIRE DEWITT AND THE CITY OF THE DEAD
Table of Contents:
Foreword, Jed & Scott
Gunpowder & Aluminum Foil, Matthew McBride
One Fine Bird, Cameron Ashley
The Girl Who Kissed Barnaby Jones, Scott Phillips
Thin Mints, Daniel O’Shea
Doe Run Road, Dennis Tafoya
They Take You, Kyle Minor
Deviances, Frank Bill
Pig Helmet & The Wall of Life, Pinckney Benedict
An Orphan’s Tale, Jonathan Woods
Ballad of Larry Plank, Derek Nikita
Five Revelations Concerning Jenny L. as Told to Maura C. by a Compassionate Angel, Laura Benedict
Care of the Circumcised Penis, Sean Doolittle
The Morning After, Jedidiah Ayres
Underground Wonder Bound, Richard Thomas
Outside Lou’s, David Cirillo, Illustrations by Matt Kindt
Everyone Grieves in a Unique Way, Anthony Neil Smith
Big Artie, Malachi Stone
Vampires are Pussies, Chris La Tray
Afterword, Rod Wiethop
$12.00
