Dearborn St. Literary Magazine launch party today

Posted by Mark Chapman on June 10th, 2010 at 2:58 pm,
with photos by courtesy of Book-broker Publishers of Florida

The mag­a­zine is an out­growth of February’s debut Dear­born Street Book Festival.

Sub­mit­ted by Book-broker Pub­lish­ers of Florida

Dear­born Street, the site of so many firsts, will see the launch of  the Dear­born Street Lit­er­ary Mag­a­zine at 5 p.m. Wednes­day, June 16 at Vil­lage Gifts & Gallery, 425 W. Dear­born St.

The 20-page mag­a­zine, which fea­tures lit­er­ary essays, local his­tory and infor­ma­tion about the local pub­lish­ing indus­try, is pro­duced by Book-broker Pub­lish­ers of Florida, LLC. It’s an out­growth of the suc­cess­ful Dear­born Street Book Fes­ti­val, which debuted in February.

Non-subscribers may con­tinue reading

“We wanted to get a jump on plan­ning for the book fes­ti­val this year,” said James Abra­ham, prin­ci­pal of Book-broker and book fair co-founder. “The mag­a­zine will adver­tise the book fes­ti­val every month, and will serve as an out­let for local authors as well.”

Local his­to­rian and author Diana Har­ris was also one of the founders of the book fes­ti­val. She said the mag­a­zine fills a void on Dear­born Street.

“There’s a lot going on here, both lit­er­ary and cul­tural,” said Har­ris, the author of “Engle­wood Lives,” a pho­to­graphic his­tory of the com­mu­nity. “We need a pub­li­ca­tion that gives magazine-length cov­er­age to local writ­ers, authors and the arts.

Each issue will fea­ture an essay on Dear­born Street, which Abra­ham says is the key to both the mag­a­zine and the community.

“Dear­born Street is the womb of Engle­wood,” he said. It’s where the com­mu­nity began, and it’s still a rich source of inspiration.”

Dear­born Street is the heart of a lit­er­ary com­mu­nity, which makes it a nat­ural venue for such an enter­prise. Lynne Kloss, owner of The Mys­tic See book­store, hosts a series of writ­ers’ and authors’ gath­er­ings, rang­ing from writ­ing work­shops to book­sign­ings. Vil­lage Gifts is a pop­u­lar place for writ­ers, who can often be found plugged up to their lap­tops, work­ing away in the morn­ing hours at the shop. Restau­rants such as Mango Bistro offer revolv­ing libraries, which cus­tomers can bor­row from or add to. The well-respected Elsie Quirk Pub­lic Library lies up the street, as do two news­pa­pers, The Engle­wood Sun and The Engle­wood Review. And then there’s the strong on-line pres­ence of The Engle­wood Edge cyber-paper.

“More peo­ple are becom­ing empow­ered to write and share what they’ve writ­ten,” Kloss says. “Any new oppor­tu­nity for writ­ers, par­tic­u­larly local writ­ers, to be pub­lished is welcomed.

Shel­ley Stout, another founder of the book fes­ti­val, is happy to host the mag­a­zine launch and wel­comes the new magazine.

“They say writ­ers need cof­fee,” she laughed. “We have plenty of that.”

For more infor­ma­tion about the Dear­born Street Lit­er­ary Mag­a­zine, call James Abra­ham at 740‑3071.

For more in for­ma­tion about Book-broker Pub­lish­ers of Florida, go to http://www.mybookbroker.com

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