Saturday 4/2: Eva Dowdell shares Single Mom Style at City Lit Books, 5 p.m.
Alison Stewart is Digging Through America’s Love Affair with Stuff at The Book Cellar, 6 p.m.
Sunday 4/3: Rey Andujar discusses the lasting legacy of Federico Garcia Lorca’s poems and plays at Water Tower Water Works. 4 p.m. Co-presented by Lookingglass Theatre Company and the Poetry Foundation.
Monday 4/4: Peggy Orenstein addresses the contemporary culture of teenage sexuality in Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape. Presented by Women & Children First at the Swedish American Museum, 7 p.m.
Wednesday 4/6: City Lit Books welcomes Action Books and co•im•press Books as they release Cheer Up, Femme Fatale and I Am a Face Sympathizing with Your Grief: Seven Younger Iranian Poets, respectively. 6:30 p.m.
Women & Children First throws a book launch party for Keep Me Posted, Lisa Beazley’s debut novel. 7:30 p.m.
Thursday 4/7: Poet, novelist, filmmaker, and new media artist Tan Lin joins sonic texture trio NbN for an evening at the Poetry Foundation. Poetry off the Shelf, 7 p.m.
Stephanie Kate Strohm presents her new young adult novel, The Taming of the Drew. The Book Cellar, 7 p.m.
Celebrate the release of Toni Nealie’s The Miles Between Me at Women & Children First, 7:30 p.m.
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