Book Launch for Doom is the House Without a Door by Logan Berry
A multimedia event to celebrate the release of Doom is the House Without a Door, the latest book by Chicago author Logan Berry, published by Inside the Castle. The evening will blend literature, music, and conversation.
With special guests:
Gwen Hilton is the author of Sent to the Silkworm House and Where the Breastplate Meets the Blade from Expat Press. She is a fiction editor at Apocalypse Confidential. She is a performance artist that has worked largely in collaboration with Logan Berry. She plays bass in the band Early Country.
Meghan Lamb is the author of MIRROR TRANSLATION (Blamage Books, 2025), COWARD (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022), FAILURE TO THRIVE (Apocalypse Party, 2021) ALL OF YOUR MOST PRIVATE PLACES (Spork Press, 2020) and SILK FLOWERS (Birds of Lace, 2017). Her work has also appeared in Quarterly West, DIAGRAM, Redivider, and Passages North, and other publications. She currently teaches creative writing through the University of Chicago, Story Studio, Hugo House, and GrubStreet. She is the fiction editor for Bridge Books and Always Crashing, and the nonfiction editor for Lover's Eye Press and Nat. Brut. She creates ambient/experimental music under the name Iron Like Nylon and co-creates noise (with her husband, Robert Kloss) under the name Violet Fistula.
Caroline Macon Fleischer is a multi-genre writer and theatre artist. Her books include the horror novels A PLAY ABOUT A CURSE (forthcoming October 2025) and THE ROOMMATE (2022). She is a member of Poems While You Wait and teaches at Loyola University in Chicago, where she lives with her husband and son.
Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a nonprofit publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, and a founding member of Poems While You Wait, a collective of typewriter poets who do commissioned poetry on demand. She is author of the novels Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey, From Dust to Stardust, and the forthcoming Man Overboard! (out in July of 2026) as well as the poetry collection Where Are the Snows. Her debut picture book Leaf Town Forever, co-written with her sister Beth and illustrated by Betsy Bowen, will be published this Fall. She lives in Chicago with her spouse, the writer Martin Seay, and teaches at DePaul University.
Jeremy Kitchen is the writer responsible for Mr. Crabby You Have Died. He is a librarian, curator of the South Side Zine Library and a co-host of the Lumpen radio show Preserving Disorder. He lives in Chicago.
About the DOOM: Advanced praise for the book has described it as:
"A visual and verbal fantasia of money, meat, and misery, Logan Berry's Doom Is the House Without a Door dances to the demonic, infernal rhythms of the 21st century. To look into this book's gargoyle face is to risk allowing it to reap your soul. Its phantasmagoria of deranged fatherhood makes voyeuristic perverts of us all."
~Kathleen Rooney, author of The Listening Room
"Doomscroll lit for the missing fetuses of the phantom pregnancy generation."
~Gary J. Shipley, author of Terminal Park
"Logan Berry ruthlessly explores the feeling that the worst thing you can do to someone is leave them alive. How close the willingness to die for someone is to the willingness to kill for someone is to the willingness to kill someone. Abhorrent, vulnerable, and touching."
~Charlene Elsby, author of Violent Faculties
Logan Berry is the author of several books, including Ultratheatre: Volume 1 (11:11 Press) and Casket Flare (Inside the Castle). He’s a playwright and theatre director. He lives in Chicago.