Content: Join us for a very special lineup of authors from the legendary indie press Whiskey Tit including Adam Axler, Tobias Carroll, Andrew Farkas, Dave Fitzgerald, Miette Gillette, David Scott Hay, Daniel A Hoyt, KT Mather, David Leo Rice, and Adam al-Sirgany. Adam Axler is a proud Clevelander who spent more than 20 years in emergency medicine, starting as a firefighter/medic in Ohio, working as a paramedic in Manhattan, and later serving as a physician assistant in ERs and urgent care centers across South Florida. After witnessing the decline of modern medicine firsthand, he wrote his medical memoir American Triage and built Collectible Science Fiction (CSF) as a second life rooted in what he truly loves: reading, collecting, and selling incredible books and art. Tobias Carroll is the author of five books, most recently the novel In the Sight. His next book, about the film KILL LIST, will be published later this year. Andrew Farkas is the author of seven books: The Great Indoorsman: Essays (University of Nebraska Press), The Big Red Herring (KERNPUNKT Press), Sunsphere: Stories (BlazeVOX Books), Self-Titled Debut: Stories (Subito Press), Are You Now or Have You Ever Been: Stories (Alternating Current Press), Movies Are Fine for a Bright Boy Like You: Stories (Whiskey Tit Books), and The Ancient Mysteries of Las Vegas: a Play (KERNPUNKT Press). He is also an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Washburn University and an editor for Always Crashing. He can be found at https://thegreatindoorsman.org/ Dave Fitzgerald is the author of the novel Troll (Whiskey Tit), as well as a contributor to anthology projects from Anxiety Press and Inside the Castle. He writes regular reviews for Heavy Feather, Xray Litmag, and Beyond the Last Estate, and also hosts the Wash Your Hands After reading series in his hometown of Athens, Georgia. Find him at davefitzgerald.net Miette Gillette is the founder and chief everything of Whiskey Tit books. International Woman of Mystery. Seasoned David wrangler. Empress of the great brown North. Not to be fucked with. David Scott Hay is a former award-winning Chicago playwright and screenwriter. As a novelist he is a two-time Kirkus Prize Nominee for the literary satire The Fountain and techno horror/romance [NSFW]. [NSFW] was listed by Tor.com as one of the most anticipated novels of 2023, made Dennis Cooper's Top Fiction of 2023, and was recently named a Top 100 Indie Book of the 21st Century by Genrepunk Magazine. His literary horror novel The Butcher of Nazareth was voted Goodreads #1 Horror to Read in 2026. His short fiction has appeared in X-R-A-Y Lit Mag, Starlite Pulp Review, and various anthologies. He is a member and volunteer for the SFWA and HWA. When not city-hopping to sell books, DSH lives in a valley between the ocean, the mountains, and the desert with his wife, son, dog, chickens, and a dozen typewriters. Daniel A. Hoyt teaches fiction writing at Kansas State University, where he founded the indie press American Buffalo Books. Dan's books are, in reverse chronological order, Shit List, This Book is Not for You, and Then We Saw the Flames. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas, and curates the Rock and Roll Reading, an annual AWP off-site event. KT Mather’s debut novel, Rage Is a Wolf, has been called ‘a reimagining of the very premises of a strong female lead’ by the LA Review of Books. And her prose style described by Kirkus as ‘profane, hilarious, vibrant, and surprising.’ She grew up in Alaska, but lived in Chicago for several years including a stint in Wrigleyville where she could hear the roar of the stadium through her open windows and a stint over Dinkle’s Bakery (RIP) where she could smell the donuts through the vents. She left her purple Saturn interred in ice on a side street off Halstead from December, 2000 to March, 2001 and still thinks about her mechanic, John Cifone, who brought that car back to life in his alley garage. She now lives in Vermont with her family, where she does boring money jobs, writes, plays and referees soccer, and is busy converting her lawn into a pollinator wonderland. David Leo Rice is the author of the novels The Berlin Wall, The New House, Angel House, and the Dodge City trilogy, as well as the collections Drifter and The Squimbop Condition and the novella The PornME Trinity. His next novel, The New House 2: The Chapel of Humiliation will be out soon. He lives in NYC and is online at: www.raviddice.com Adam al-Sirgany, Poet Laureate of Rockford, IL, is a writer, editor, and educator born and raised in the Driftless Midwest. He is the executive director of the literary education nonprofit 1-Week Critique and adjunct faculty for the UCLA Extension Program in Writing, Editing and Publishing. Adam is also the director and managing editor of Flyover/Maze Books press and part of the Maze Book Store Co-op. His story collection More Hell was published by Whisk(e)y Tit press in 2025.
Date/Time: Sept. 12, 2026, 6 p.m. - Sept. 12, 2026, 7 p.m.
Location: Pilsen Community Books, 1531 W. 18th St, Chicago
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