Notable Chicago: 10/23–10/29

Friday 10/23: Beautiful and brutal—Bonnie Jo Campbell celebrates her new story collection, Mothers Tell Your Daughters, at Women & Children First, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday 10/24: 4th Trimester Bodies Project unveils their new book. Join Ashlee Wells Jackson and Laura Weetzie Wilson for hugs at Uncharted Books, 3 p.m.

Sunday 10/25: Jenny Lawson shares Furiously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible Things. Presented by Women & Children First at Ebenezer Lutheran Church, 4 p.m.

Monday 10/26: Jeanette Winterson visits Women & Children First for a pop-up reading and signing of The Gap of Time. 7:30 p.m.

Thursday 10/29: Celebrate the book launch of The Poetry Foundation with architect John Ronan and editor Kevin Alter at the Poetry Foundation, 6 p.m.

Chuck Bright talks Goshena: Queen of the Big In-BetweenaCity Lit Books, 6:30 p.m.

Gloria Steinem discusses her forthcoming memoir, My Life on the Road, with Roxane Gay. This ticketed event is officially sold out, but is still pretty darn notable. The People’s Church, 7 p.m.

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