Friday 8/18: City Lit Books welcomes Rachel Slotnick, Jennifer Karmin, Giano Cromley, and Gerald Bennan for Poetry Night! 6:30 p.m.
Lindsay Curry launches new book Sweet Madness at The Book Cellar. 7 p.m.
Cartoonist Nicole Hollander discusses Women Who Still Love Cats Too Much and offers a preview of her forthcoming graphic novel, In the Old Neighborhood. Women & Children First, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday 8/19: Waiting 4 the Bus hosts Poetry Pentathlon 2015 at The Book Cellar, 7 p.m.
Sunday 8/20: Comfort Station’s Zine Pop-Up highlights work by local artists from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The Hideout’s Fictlicious features readings by Steve Trumpeter, Jacob Knabb, Alba Machado, GQ, and Micki LeSueur. $10, 7 p.m.
Wednesday 8/23: Leslie Zemeckis talks about her Lili St. Cyr biography, Goddess of Love Incarnate. The Book Cellar, 7 p.m.
Caroline Heller presents Reading Claudius: a Memoir in Two Parts at Women & Children First. 7:30 p.m.
Thursday 8/24: University of Iowa’s International Writing Program director Christopher Merrill introduces Villeda, Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta, Lisa Fishman, and Daniel Borzutzky for Poetry off the Shelf. Poetry Foundation, 7 p.m.
Sung J. Woo reads from Love, Love at The Book Cellar. 7 p.m.
Aviya Kushner takes “a journey into the words and worlds of the Bible” in The Grammar of God. Women & Children First, 7:30 p.m.
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