Join us for an author conversation with Dale Corvino and Michael Bullock, moderated by Stephen Patrick BellAs the Chicago launch event for BONDS & BOUNDARIES, the debut short story collection by Dale Corvino, from Rebel Satori Press. Dale will be in conversation with Michael Bullock, co-editor of I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT: THE 1979 DIARIES OF SEAN DELEAR from Semoitext(e). The conversation and discussion will be moderated by author Stephen Patrick Bell. Discussion to be followed by a Q&A. Both titles will be available for sale.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

 

Dale Corvino – A 2021 Lambda Literary Emerging Fellow, Dale Corvino found his voice at the underground literary salon “Dean Johnson’s Reading for Filth,” recounting his interactions with sex work. Many of the short stories in his collection were workshopped right here in Chicago with Newtown Writers.  His memoir, Kept Boy in the Afterlife, won the 2023 Nonfiction Prize from C&R Press and is due out in September. 

Michael Bullock is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor, and organizer. Hes the author of Roman Catholic Jacuzzi (2012) and the editor of Peter Berlin: Artist, Icon, Photosexual (2019). Bullock is a regular contributor to BUTT, associate publisher for PIN-UP magazine and The Whitney Review of New Writing and a contributing editor for Apartamento.

Stephen Patrick Bell (he/him) is a writer raised in New York by Jamaican immigrants, currently based in Chicago where he produced The Moth StorySLAM. A 2022 Lambda Literary Fellow in fiction and a Summer 2023 Tin House fellow, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Interview Magazine, The Rumpus, The Chicago Review of Books, The Lambda Literary Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He is currently working on a novel.