if somebody wants to use the green background to CGI me onto a like a mountaintop or super nutty outer space landscape or something that would be totally cool with me.

Printers’ Ball has come and gone once more! The launch of our super futuristic Mobile Paper Blog saw many posts from many people, and this one seemed to capture the intent of the event and the spirit of Chicago’s independent publishers…..

And the most beautiful part of all?? If you think it, write it, spellcheck it, send it, and they still don’t print it–the Chicago Underground Library wants it anyway!!! YOU are already part of Chicago’s literary-historical conversation, and we’re going to make sure posterity knows it gosh darnit. Not only do we want your independently published work, but we need it–without it, our map of the connections between Chicago cultural and literary phenomena will remain criss-crossed by dark regions of terra incognita. Donations can be dropped off during open hours on Tuesdays from 6-9pm, and Saturdays and Sundays from 1-5pm.

-Meredith

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This print -> digital announcement comes to us via Paper Blog post from our recent Science of Obscurity event! Please join us at the Printers’ Ball tonight, 6-10 at the Ludington Building, 1104 S. Wabash. There will be thousands of mags, books, zines, broadsheets, chapbooks, and media there probably isn’t a name for, all free of charge; workshops, readings, music, performance, demonstrations, MAGIC! The CUL is also proudly launching (alas, without the help of a trebuchet… that would probably really hurt) the Mobile 2.0 beta test version of Paper Blog at the Ball, so look for us and share your thoughts!

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In the United States, “socialism” or “socialist” can be a dirty word. Many people would perhaps rather admit to being a parking-ticket scofflaw, or tearing the wings off butterflies.

But not Alan Maass. In his book The Case for Socialism, published in 2004 by Chicago’s very own Haymarket Books (with an afterword by the late Howard Zinn), he proudly admits his political affiliation. And he wants you to join him.

In a slim 127-page volume (it fit easily into a patch pocket of my cargo shorts, with room to spare), Maass, a writer for the weekly Socialist Worker, pursues an ambitious agenda. He argues that capitalism has to go. It must go today.

According to Maass, not only our economy but our whole way of life is rapacious, based on the principle of winner-take-all, with only a few real winners sitting immovably at the top. The result is a kaleidoscope of destructive chain reactions for those of us farther down the food chain: declining wages, abysmal health care, famine, environmental degradation, wars.

Click here to read on.

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We received this in the Chicago Underground Library mailbox the other day and I could barely restrain myself from ripping it open (wanted to preserve the envelope) and failed miserably at keeping water off of it as I…ahem…took it into the loo with me.

Gabriel Levinson and just one of his lit-related projects, DEUSEXPAGINA, will be at the Printers’ Ball and it should be interesting to see what his “live experiment in literary quantum mechanics and wholly fabricated reviews of wholly fabricated books” should bring. Check out details here. Stay tuned for a typewritten interview with Gabriel and more about, and from, DEUSEXPAGINA.

– Thùy Ngô

Continue on for the literary quantum mechanics and my shame…

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Chicago Underground Library presents
Son of Science of Obscurity!
Chicago’s celebration of literary experiments returns for a second year!
Saturday, July 10, 7pm-10pm
Jupiter Outpost
1139 W. Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607

Free, all ages

The Chicago Underground Library celebrates the return of the “Science of Obscurity,” our annual lead up event to the Printers’ Ball featuring new, unpublished, and in-progress works presented as science fair experiments. The night will also feature a public “book launch” via catapult, scientist speed dating, and digital readings to warm your hardened techie heart. Left and right brains come together, print <3s digital, everyone wins when the laws of physics and literature collide.

More details about the event following…

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Maybe you couldn’t make it to Printers’ Ball. Or maybe you did, but your hands were too busy holding free books, lifting free IPA to your lips, and doing the Hustle at one of the many free shows to also carry around every single flyer, bookmark and card that might have something cool on it. Don’t worry, we did it FOR you! Here’s a quick list of publications accepting submissions, as well as general tidbits and oddments from the Ball’s many flyer tables.

Check out the awesome list here!

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