Friday 8/5: Head to The Book Cellar to hear Savy Leiser read from her debut novel The Making of a Small-Town Beauty King. 7 p.m., free.
Sunday 7/7: As always, the Uptown Poetry slam is going down at The Green Mill. Open mic starts at 7 p.m. followed by the slam itself. $7, 21+.
Monday 8/8: Join The Book Cellar for a screening of the original The Bad News Bears, and hear award-winning journalist and pop culture historian Dan Epstein read from his new book, Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of ’76. The Music Box Theatre, 6 p.m., $12.
Tuesday 8/9: Mychal Denzel Smith discusses his highly-anticipated memoir Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education and Marc Lamont Hill discusses his book Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond. Seminary Co-op Bookstore, 6 p.m., free.
Wednesday 8/10: Head to the Mars Gallery for the Poetry Center of Chicago’s Six Points Reading Series! Readers include Holly Amos, Mairead Case, and Dan Magers. Hosted and curated by Danielle Susi. 7 p.m., free.
Leigh Stein reads from her brand new memoir Land of Enchantment at Women & Children First. Leigh will be joined by Chicago Tribune reporter Alison Bowen. 7:30 p.m., free.
Thursday 8/11: Stop by City Lit Books for a conversation with Vu Tran, author of Dragonfish, and Michael Harvey, author of Brighton. 6:30 p.m., free.
Blair Braverman reads from her new memoir Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North. Women & Children First, 7:30 p.m., free.
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