Notable Chicago: 6/27–7/3
Friday 6/27: Women and Children First Books kicks off a big weekend in Chicago with a panel discussion, “Writing and Editing Noir,” moderated by the award-winning journalist, Mei-Ling Hopgood. She’ll…
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Frank Tempone
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Frank Tempone writes and teaches on the north side of Chicago. He tweets @tempone and rants at absolutegentleman.net.
Notable Chicago: 6/20–6/26
Friday 6/20: Maria Venegas stops into Women and Children First Books to read from and discuss her memoir, Bulletproof Vest: The Ballad of an Outlaw and His Daughter. Where just named the…
Notable Chicago: 6/13–6/19
Friday 6/13: New York Times bestselling nonfiction author Susan Jane Gilman stops by Andersonville to read from and talk about her debut novel, The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street.…
Notable Chicago: 6/6–6/12
Saturday 6/7: The 30th annual Printers Row Literary Festival kicks off in the South Loop with readings, workshops, and a massive book fair. Highlights include: Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski and Bill Hillman…
Notable Chicago: 5/30–6/5
Friday 5/30: It’s Poetry Night at City Lit Books, and this month features a couple of heavy hitters. Diane Raptosh is promoting her newest collection, American Amnesiac, which was long…
Notable Chicago: 5/23–5/29
Friday 5/23: James Fearnley is in Lincoln Square to promote his music memoir Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues. He’ll also talk about his new literary and music…
Notable Chicago: 5/16–5/22
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…
Notable Chicago: 5/9–5/15
Friday 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…
Lydia Davis Can and Does
Numero 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…
Notable Chicago: 5/2–5/8
Friday 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)…
Notable Chicago: 4/25–5/1
Friday 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,…
Where It All Began
After 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…