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Join NOW!Friday 5/16: Lea Carpenter is at Pritzker Military Library to promote and discuss her first novel, Eleven Days, a story of a mother as she awaits news of the fate of her son, a Navy SEAL missing in action. 12 p.m. Becky Cloonan returns to Logan Square to celebrate her new mini-comics collection, By Chance […]
...moreFriday 5/9: The city honors the great Studs Terkel with “Let’s Get Working,” a three-day festival presented by the University of Chicago that celebrates his massive contribution to the literary canon of the people with oral history, storytelling, film, performances, and art. Events all day and late into the evening at Logan Center for the […]
...moreNumero Cinq is the brainchild of Douglas Glover, an award-winning writing legend from Canada. Its monthly issues are rolled out one story at a time to “guarantee each author or artist a day in the sun.” May’s issue comes in 17 parts, the first one an interview with Lydia Davis on the publication of her new collection, Can’t and Won’t, and the […]
...moreFriday 5/2: Veronica Roth (author of the Divergent series), Aleksandar Hemon (The Lazarus Project, The Book of my Lives), and Steven Conrad (screenwriter of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) are guests of The Interview Show. Hosted by Mark Bazer. The Hideout, 6:30 p.m. Megan Stielstra is attracting a lot of literary attention in the […]
...moreFriday 4/25: Seminary Co-op Bookstore celebrates the release of new books from four Chicago writers. In conjunction with Switchgrass Books, Curbside Splendor, and McSweeney’s, the Bookstore hosts Joe Peterson, Bill Hillman, Ben Tanzer, and Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski. Seminary Co-op Bookstore, 5:30-7 p.m. Guild Literary Complex teams with Facets Multimedia in Lincoln Park to screen two short films […]
...moreAfter Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s passing last Thursday, the New Yorker opened its archives to those compelled to get their hands on something from the “voice of Latin America.” One of the more interesting pieces in the archive is “The Challenge,” in which Marquez recalls a forty-two day span during which his first two short stories were published. […]
...moreFriday 4/18: Angie Chuang, Assistant Professor of Journalism at American University School of Communication, reads from and discusses her book The Four Words for Home, documenting a five-year journey comparing a family’s life in Afghanistan to her own family’s struggles in Taiwan. Women and Children First Books, 7:30 p.m. Saturday 4/19: The Secret History of Chicago Zines […]
...moreFriday 4/11: Poetry Foundation launches the Favorite Poem Project, a program that celebrates poetry and documents how poetry affects and influences people of Chicago. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky introduces the evening program. Poetry Foundation, 7 p.m. Saturday 4/12: Independent publishing house Curbside Splendor hosts its annual Pop-Up Book Fair at the Ernest Hemingway Museum. Over […]
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