Saturday 9/12: The Book Cellar welcomes fantasy authors Bradley Beaulieu (Twelve Kings In Sharakhai), Wesley Chu (Time Salvager), and Jeff Salyards (Chains of the Heretic: Bloodsucker’s Arc Book 3) to discuss their recent work. 7 p.m.
Monday 9/14: Karen Abbott reveals Liar, Temptress, Soldier Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War. Women & Children First, 7 p.m.
Tuesday 9/15: Halle Butler and Christian Tebordo join Patrick Wensink to celebrate the release of Fake Fruit Factory. The Whistler, 6 p.m.
September’s Open Door Reading features Northwestern University’s Mary Kinzie with student Alexandra Pechman and Lake Forest College’s Robert Archambeau with student Nicole Nodi. Poetry Foundation, 7 p.m.
Wednesday 9/16: Join Tim Lees (Devil In the Wires), Pam Ferderbar (Feng Shui and Charlotte Nightingale), Tamara Winfrey Harris (The Sisters Are Alright), and Sandra Colbert (Chicago Bound) for Local Author Night at The Book Cellar. 7 p.m.
Lauren Holmes introduces Barbara the Slut at Women & Children First, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday 9/17: Sophie Littlefield (The Guilty One) and Denise Swank (Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes: A Rose Gardner Mystery) chat, read, and sign their respective books. Women & Children First, 5:30 p.m.
Multidisciplinary artist Cecilia Vicuña performs a site-specific work called “The Origin of Weaving.” Poetry Foundation, 6 p.m.
Once We Were Brothers author Ron Balson discusses his new novel, Saving Sophie. The Book Cellar, 7 p.m.