Five with...

Another feature starting up this week is the Five with... It's pretty much exactly like it sounds. It's five questions each time with a different Pilcrow guest participant. Stay tuned for that.

Pilcrow wants your email.

Please note on the front page of the Pilcrow site, we've added a mailing list sign up. We're not going to stuff your inbox with a ton of useless crap, don't even worry for a minute. But, what we will do is keep you looped as new things happen that you might be interested in.

BookCellar

Excellent news!

BookCellar in Chicago has agreed to serve as the official bookseller for Pilcrow Lit Fest. We couldn't ask for a better bookstore for the job and are really looking forward to hanging with them during the festival.

Rebuilt Books

The fabulous party taking place Saturday May 24th will be a fundraiser to benefit New Orleans Public Libraries damaged during Hurricane Katrina. To help rake in the dough, we're asking authors to take a copy of their own book, destroy it, and rebuild it into a piece of art. Sculpture, on canvass, whatever. Just art. Recruit a team, if you must. Let us know if you're down to destroy your book, magazine, whatever. As long as it's yours in some way.

This week...

Pilcrow welcomes Sunday Salon Chicago to the festival. Stay tuned for details of the event we're cooking up on May 25th. Also, Trader Todd's is generously offering space for our use as well.

Birds of a feather...

Jonathan Messinger and Zach Plague of Featherproof Books are on board. Do come out and say hello during the festival.

Monday News

If you head over to the participant page, you'll see our lovely little participant list starting to shape right up. Fictionista Jami Attenberg is coming with her new novel The Kept Man in tow, Chicago author Charles Blackstone, publicist (and style icon) Lauren Cerand, award-winning playwright Angela Gant, author and (Downtown) Omaha Lit Fest mastermind Timothy Schaffert and comedic essayist Katie Schwartz. Hello fabulous. A whole slew of other folks will be posted this week, too, so stay tuned, RSS us and keep in touch.