Friday 10/7: Visit Seminary Co-op Bookstore to hear Aaron Schuster read from The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis. 6 p.m., free.
Saturday 10/8: Quraysh Ali Lansana reads from A Gift from Greensboro at the Poetry Foundation. 1:30 p.m., free.
The Book Cellar and Bird’s Thumb presents the 2nd Annual Chicago Voices Reading Event! Featuring Angela Doll Carlson, Jeff Toth, Georgia Bellas, and more. 6 p.m., free.
Sunday 10/9: 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+.
Tuesday 10/11: Margaret Power reads from her book Hope in Hard Times: Norvelt and the Struggle for Community During the Great Depression at City Lit Books. 6:30 p.m., free.
Thursday 10/13: Join City Lit Books to hear Stephanie Ash read from her novel The Annie Year. 6:30 p.m., free.
Head to Women & Children First for the book launch party for Gathered Bones are Known to Wander by Amy Strauss Friedman! Friedman will be joined by Rumpus Sunday Co-Editor Toni Nealie and Jessica Walsh. 7:30 p.m., free.
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