Notable Online: 10/11–10/17

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Monday 10/12: Mychal Denzel Smith, Jason Diamond, and Morgan Jerkins joins the Franklin Park Reading Series. Zoom, 8 p.m. EDT, free.

Khadijah Queen, Carlos Andrés Gomez, and Elana Bell join host Angel Nafis for the Greenlight Poetry Salon. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Shani Mootoo and Ian Williams with Lucy Jane Bledsoe discuss Polar Vortex. Left Bank Books via Facebook, 8 p.m. EDT, free.

Darcie Little Badger, Eric Gansworth, and Anton Treuer join the Native Voices Out Loud series. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Hannah Gamble and Suzanne Wise join the Monday Night poetry series. Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Vanessa Veselka talks with Karen Russell about The Great Offshore Grounds. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Tuesday 10/13: Marvin Dorsey joins the Cobalt Poets reading series. Zoom, 7:30 p.m. PDT, free.

Diane Goettel, J.G. McClure, Tanis MacDonald, Christine Beck, Diana Rosen, and Aaron Brown join Black Lawrence press for The Poet’s Journey. Zoom, 8 p.m. EDT, free.

Wendy S. Walters, Andrew Simonet, and Darin Strauss join co-hosts M. M. De Voe and Christina Chiu for a Pen Parentis Literary Salon. Online, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Peace Adzo Medie presents His Only Wife. Left Bank Books via Facebook, 8 p.m. EDT, free.

Kristen Millares Young, Kim Addonizio, and Elizabeth Rosner discuss Subduction. Left Bank Books via Facebook, 8 p.m. EDT, free.

Namwali Serpell talks with Chris Abani about Stranger Faces. Brookline Booksmith via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Kendra Atleework and Alia Volz discuss Miracle Country and Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco. Go Passage, 9 p.m. EDT, free.

Michele Morano presents Like Love. Powehrouse via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Mariana Enriquez, Gunnhild Øyehaug, Andrew McMillan, and John Freeman celebrate the latest issue of Freeman’s. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 6 p.m. EDT, free.

Shalom Auslander presents Mother for Dinner with Cheryl Pearl Sucher. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Claire Messud presents Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays. The Center for Fiction via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, $10.

Elias Khoury and Robyn Creswell discuss Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam. Online Stream, 6 p.m. EDT, free.

Cory Doctorow presents Attack Surface. The Strand via Zoom, 8 p.m. EDT, $15.

Raven Leilani presents Luster. A Cappella Books via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Wednesday 10/14: Sumita Chakraborty presents Arrow with Rachel Mennies. White Whale Bookstore via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Eileen Myles presents For Now. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Cory Doctorow presents Attack Surface. Brookline Booksmith via Zoom, 8 p.m. EDT, free.

Robert Duncan presents Loudmouth with Craig Finn. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.

Marilynne Robinson presents Jack. Harvard Bookstore via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EDT, $32.

Phil Klay presents Missionaries with Nate DiMeo. Skylight Books via CrowdCast, 6:30 p.m. PDT, free.

Christopher Swann presents Never Turn Back. A Cappella Books via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Maggie Smith presents Keep Moving with Rebecca Soffer. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Thursday 10/15: Amy Irvine and Pam Houston will join the Readings By Writers series. Zoom, 5 p.m. PDT, free.

Stephanie Lacava presents The Superrationals. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 6 p.m. EDT, free.

Katie Skelly presents Maids with Alissa Bennett. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Ivan Vladislavić presents The Distance with Peter Godwin. Community Bookstore via Zoom, 6:30 p.m. EDT, free.

Rebecca Roanhorse presents Black Sun with Justina Ireland. Skylight Books via CrowdCast, 6:30 p.m. PDT, free.

Cinelle Barnes, Devi Laskar, and Natalia Sylvester presents A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New American South. A Capella Books via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

John D’Emilio and Steven Louis Brawley discuss Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ Archives. Left Bank Books via Facebook, 8 p.m. EDT, free.

Tobias Carroll and Christen Carter discuss Political Sign and Button Power. Pilsen Community Books via Zoom, 7 p.m. CDT, free.

Lee van der Voo presents As the World Burns: The New Generation of Activists and the Landmark Legal Fight Against Climate Change with Alex Loznak. City Lit Books via Zoom, 6:30 p.m. CDT, free.

Cory Doctorow presents Attack Surface. Go Passage, 8 p.m. EDT, free.

Franny Choi, Nate Marshall, and Lidia Yuknavitch join The Rumpus and the Rally Reading series for a politically charged evening of readings and discussion. Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.

Friday 10/16: Michael Simms presents American Ash with Joan E. Bauer, Philip Terman, and Richard St. John.White Whale Bookstore via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Kimberly M. Zieselman presents Xoxy: A Memoir (Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist)
 with Robin Honan. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Eddie R. Cole discusses The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom. Harvard Bookstore via CrowdCast, noon, $3.

Kristen Millares Young talks with with Anca L. Szilágyi about Subduction. City Lit Books via Zoom, 6:30 p.m. CDT, free.

Saturday 10/17: Yesenia Montilla, Deena November, and Leslie Anne Mcilroy join the Laser Cat/Vaser Cat reading series. White Whale Bookstore via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Mariah Barber, Vanessa Hua, Shanon Lee, and Ivelisse Rodriguez talk with panel moderator Patrick Corvington about Race Through a Literary Lens. The Writers Center via Zoom, 1:30 p.m. EDT, free.

Robert Glück and Ted Rees join the Segue Reading series. Zoom, 5 p.m. EDT, free.

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Ian MacAllen is the author of Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American (Rowman & Littlefield, April 2022). His writing has appeared in Chicago Review of Books, Southern Review of Books, The Offing, 45th Parallel Magazine, Little Fiction, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and elsewhere. He tweets @IanMacAllen and is online at IanMacAllen.com. More from this author →