Friday 4/17: Head to Powell’s Bookstore for this month’s Bad Grammar Theater, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Farm Sanctuary co-founder and president Gene Baur provides the ultimate guide to mindful eating (and longer living) at Women & Children First, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday 4/18: Quimby’s Bookstore welcomes graphic book artist and Second Avenue Caper author Joyce Brabner. 7 p.m.
20×2 gives twenty speakers two minutes to answer an open-ended question onstage. Witness their quick responses to Chicago’s question, “What’s next?” 7 p.m. at Schuba’s, $10.
Celebrate the release of On the Way by Cyn Vargas at The Book Cellar. The party, hosted by Curbside Splendor, begins at 7 p.m. (early arrival advised).
Sunday 4/19: Curbside Splendor sets up (a pop-up book fair) shop for local publishers, presses, and bookstores at the Empty Bottle. $8 at the door but free with RSVP, 12 p.m.
Monday 4/20: April’s Essay Fiesta gets the party started at The Book Cellar, 7 p.m.
Tuesday 4/21: The Open Door Readings: April feature performances by Averill Curdy with student Lauren Schlesinger and Peter Kahn with student Asia Calcagno. The Poetry Foundation, 7 p.m.
Wednesday 4/22: Brandy Liên Worrall discusses her memoir, What Doesn’t Kill Us, at Women & Children First. 7:30 p.m.
Thursday 4/23: Haki Madhubuti introduces a reading by Kelly Norman Ellis, Calvin Forbes, Angela Jackson, and Roger Reeves for Fifth Wednesday Journal’s African American Poets in Review. The Poetry Foundation, 6:30 p.m.
Life on Mars author and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith reads from her memoir, Ordinary Light. Women & Children First, 7:30 p.m.