Readings, Rated
The Dollar Store Returns!
Date: Friday, May 23rd
Time: 7:00 pm, $1
Location: The Hideout
Participants: Kevin Sampsell, Diana Slickman
I was fairly ambivalent about posting a listing for this event, not because I don’t love the Dollar Store, but because any advertising could cause it to sell out even quicker now. From the email:
The Dollar Store comes back for a onetime show as part of the Pilcrow Literary Festival, and a sort of big Chicago hello to friend Kevin Sampsell, author of the new Creamy Bullets, who’ll read a story inspired by a piece of Portland dollar store junk, making it the first piece of DS junk that’s been on a commercial airliner (The Show has sprung for an extra biz-class seat for it, if you must know).
And joining him is Diana Slickman, a Dollar Store favorite who was gracious enough not to say no when we asked her to do something again.
The event is a must-see for the same reason it’s bittersweet: another Dollar Store won’t come around for a long while.