Davis Schneiderman, author of Drain with
Zoe Zolbrod, author of Currency
Friday, November 5 @7pm, Boswell Book Company
Join three fearless authors as they explore the fictional crossroads of power and control, gender and sexuality, and the deeper essence of freedom and creativity.
Slut Lullabies is a daring collection of insightfully drawn, deeply felt characters moving delicately amid the despair and wreckage of ordinary life, but always towards hope. A gay Latino man and his lover navigate their familial clashes as they plan their commitment ceremony; a young girl wanting to leave a violent home precariously balances ethical tightropes when she seduces a teacher for blackmail money; and a wealthy socialite must confront her demons when her comfortable life crumbles. Through beauty, horror, humor and chaos, Frangello digs into her understanding of human experience to write in an uplifting voice, demanding the judgmental reader to consider the power of empathy. Drain imagines a waterless Lake Michigan in the year 2039, with the planet’s protective 
atmospheric fields slowly disappearing and its subsequent effect on the occupants of a desert area east of Chicago where three communities are clashing: punk pirates, ultra-wealthy closed communities, and end-times cultists. Shocking, but unwavering in its critique of modern culture, Drain walks a post-apocalyptic path in the footsteps of William S. Burroughs and Chuck Pahlaniuk.
atmospheric fields slowly disappearing and its subsequent effect on the occupants of a desert area east of Chicago where three communities are clashing: punk pirates, ultra-wealthy closed communities, and end-times cultists. Shocking, but unwavering in its critique of modern culture, Drain walks a post-apocalyptic path in the footsteps of William S. Burroughs and Chuck Pahlaniuk.
In Currency, Robin, an American backpacker low on money but infatuated with travel and beauty, and Piv, her charismatic Thai lover who dreams of a better life, become embroiled in the dangerous world of international animal trafficking in this exotic literary thriller. Author bios:
Gina Frangello is the author of the critically acclaimed novel My Sister’s Continent. She is the executive editor and co-founder of Other Voices Books and the editor of The Nervous Breakdown’s fiction section. She lives in Chicago with her husband, twin daughters and son, and teaches at Columbia College and Northwestern University.
Davis Schneiderman chairs the English and American studies departments at Lake Forest College in Illinois. He is the director of Lake Forest College Press/&Now Books; he also directs the Virtual Burnham Initiative, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Schneiderman is the author of the novel DIS and the co-author of the novel Abecedarium. His creative work has appeared in numerous publications, including Fiction International, the Chicago Tribune, Tri-Quarterly, Exquisite Corpse, and the Iowa Review.
Zoe Zolbrod studied at both Oberlin and the University of Illinois at Chicago, and has been a Senior Editor at Houghton Mifflin/Harcourt. She also was co-publisher of Maxine - a literate companion for churlish girls and rakish women. Currency is her first novel.
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