Friday 2/27: Poets, musicians, storytellers, and comedians perform at Opaque Reading, a monthly live-lit series at Uncharted Books. 7 p.m., free.
Jeff Phillips and Daniel Gerald Mac Rae have joined forces to create Zizobotchi Papers, a journal dedicated to the novella. Attend a reading of the first volume by Phillips and actor Jordan Hoisington at Quimby’s. 7 p.m., free.
Women & Children First hosts a launch party for Principles of Navigation, Lynn Sloan’s first novel. Festivities—including author reading and book signing—begin at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday 2/28: Something wicked this way comes—to the Newberry Library. Spend the morning listening to Shakespeare Project of Chicago’s staged reading of Macbeth. Ruggles Hall, 10 a.m.
Monday 3/2: Is There Such a Thing as Jewish Literature? Poet, critic, and editor Adam Kirsch will discuss as he leads the last installment of the Leo and Sarah (Bunny) Horvitz Memorial Lectures. The Harris School, 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday 3/3: The Chicago Council on Global Affairs partners with the Pritzker Military Museum & Library to present Green on Blue author Elliot Ackerman. The former White House Fellow and Marine Corps officer will discuss his debut novel with Dr. Truman Anderson. 6 p.m., $10 (free for Pritzker Military Museum & Library members).
Quan Barry, Chloe Krug Benjamin, Elissa Cahn, and Brittany Cavallaro read at this month’s Wit Rabbit (No. 40). Quenchers Saloon, 7 p.m.
Andrew Huff and Eden Robins host performers Keidra Chaney, Mare Swallow, Genevieve Waller, Danielle Susi, and Tom Underberg at Tuesday Funk. Hopleaf’s upstairs lounge, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday 3/4: David Axelrod discusses his new book, Believer: My Forty Years in Politics. Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, 10 a.m.
Wait ‘Til You Have Real Problems! Or just wait until 6 p.m. for Scott Beal’s discussion of his book. Poet Gahl Liberzon joins him at Seminary Co-op.