Notable Chicago: 11/24–11/30

Friday 11/24: Looking for gift ideas? The Book Cellar hosts The National Book Critics Circle: Best Books of 2017 with Elizabeth Taylor and Charles Finch. 6 p.m., free.

Saturday 11/25: It’s Small Business Saturday! If you’re going shopping, be sure to support the local bookstores you often see on here, like Women & Children First, Unabridged Books, The Book Cellar, City Lit Books, 57th Street Books, and more.

Head to City Lit Books for an event full of Chicago History, with readings from David Sadowski, author of Chicago Trolleys, Chris McAuliffe, author of Cycling in Chicago, and John Boda and Ray Johnson, authors of The Great Chicago Fire. 5 p.m., free.

Monday 11/27: The Poetry Foundation presents Bearden’s Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden featuring Kwame Dawes, Matthew Shenoda, and Natasha Trethewey. 7 p.m., free.

Wednesday 11/29: Visit Women & Children First to hear Carmen Maria Machado and Gina Frangello discuss Carmen’s new collection, Her Body and Other Parties. 7:30 p.m., free.

Thursday 11/30: Head back to Women & Children First to hear Sarah Perry read from After the Eclipse. 7:30 p.m., free.

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Jonathan McDaniel is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago’s Nonfiction MFA program, and his work has most recently appeared in The Point Magazine, Tahoma Literary Review, and at The Rumpus. He works as a copywriter and lives in Chicago with his dog. Find him on twitter @JonathanMcD.

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