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Todd Dills / THE2NDHAND

Todd Dills / THE2NDHAND

About Me

... THE2NDHAND publishes short fiction and nonfiction. Todd Dills edits the broadsheet and recently relocated to Birmingham, AL, after eight years of publishing from Chicago. There's a little bit about that at the Chicago Reader site . Dills edited in 2004 a best-of collection called All Hands On: A THE2NDHAND Reader, and he's the author of a chapbook of short stories, For Weeks Above the Umbrella, and the novel Sons of the Rapture, out from Featherproof Books in 2006. You can order it here.

My Interests

MINI MALL , Russian futurists, Ralph Ellison, bonobos, Three 6 Mafia, Barry Hannah, Roberto Bolano, big trucks, little cars....

I'd like to meet:

YOU

My Blog

Susannah Sunday

Big Featherproof Books event Sunday, folks:Susannah Felts’ This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Recordreleased March 30, 2008. 7 PMThe Hideout, 1354 W Wabansia, Chicago$5With readings by: Susanna...
Posted by Todd Dills / THE2NDHAND on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:15:00 PST

Interview with Doug Milam

This week in Wing & Fly at THE2NDHAND.com: an interview with Doug Milam I conducted as the latest THE2NDHAND broadsheet was going to press -- Condo Litigation: Bourgeois Suffering. http://www.the2...
Posted by Todd Dills / THE2NDHAND on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:38:00 PST

Thursday in Birmingham / Mar 8 in the Chi

I'll only be at the first one, folks, unfortunately, but the ever-capable Mr. C.T. Ballentine mans the Chicago ship March 8. Here you: Launching this Thursday at Birmingham's Bottletree is a first no...
Posted by Todd Dills / THE2NDHAND on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:42:00 PST

Sun-Times Interview

Mildly funny interview w/ me in the Chicago Sun-Times today, about THE2NDHAND and Chicago, in which I impart some choice wisdom upon asked for some sage Chicago-specific advice (shh: I think...
Posted by Todd Dills / THE2NDHAND on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:57:00 PST

IMPLOSION -- Birmingham’s Parliament House hotel

New Wing & Fly, this week, and it's explosive. Literally. Go here for digressionary narrative and quick-shutter pics of the implosion of the 60s-era Parliament House hotel between downtown an...
Posted by Todd Dills / THE2NDHAND on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:52:00 PST

Brad Vice Interview / readings in Bham, Chi

Hey all. After nearly nine months in the hopper, the moment of triumph has arisen -- here is an interview I did w/ Brad Vice, author of The Bear Bryant Funeral Train, a particularly well-wrought ...
Posted by Todd Dills / THE2NDHAND on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:35:00 PST

Barack Obama

In case you needed another reason -- in addition to the factor of intelligence, vigor, progressive credentials, etc. -- to cast a vote for Barack Obama in the Democratic primary, I'll give my sincere ...
Posted by Todd Dills / THE2NDHAND on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:52:00 PST

downtime / New stuff

Hey all, my page here was down for a while for reasons as yet unspecified by appropriate authorities, but I suspect a spammer may have temporarily hijacked my stuff. If there were any lewd postings to...
Posted by Todd Dills / THE2NDHAND on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:39:00 PST

Reading -- Chicago’s Book Cellar, December 29

Chicago cohorts: I'm in town Dec. 27-Jan. 1. We're convening Saturday the 29th at Lincoln Square's greatest book- and wine shop, the Book Cellar, for a reading, featuring THE2NDHAND contributors all: ...
Posted by Todd Dills / THE2NDHAND on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:53:00 PST

New new new / Memorial

THE2NDHAND's new all-viz broadsheet, No. 26, with comics by Andrew Davis, print work by Charles Buchanan and all wrangled with illustrations based on a Sandburg poem from "The People, Yes!" by Ro...
Posted by Todd Dills / THE2NDHAND on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:53:00 PST