Rachel Natale currently lives, dances, and writes in Chicago. She recently received the James Charles Cox Memorial Award in English at Loyola University, and her work has been published in Treehouse Magazine.
Friday 9/25: The Chicago Center for Literature and Photography releases their new anthology, The View From Here: Stories about Chicago Neighborhoods, with an introduction by Patricia Ann McNair. City Lit…
Friday 8/18: City Lit Books welcomes Rachel Slotnick, Jennifer Karmin, Giano Cromley, and Gerald Bennan for Poetry Night! 6:30 p.m. Lindsay Curry launches new book Sweet Madness at The Book Cellar. 7 p.m. Cartoonist Nicole Hollander discusses Women Who Still…
Saturday 9/12: The Book Cellar welcomes fantasy authors Bradley Beaulieu (Twelve Kings In Sharakhai), Wesley Chu (Time Salvager), and Jeff Salyards (Chains of the Heretic: Bloodsucker’s Arc Book 3) to…
Tuesday 9/8: Anne-Marie Fyfe (The House of Small Absences), Cahal Dallat (The Year of Not Dancing), and Jacquelyn Pope (Watermark) read from their respective collections at City Lit Books, 6:30…
Friday 8/28: Theater Oobleck performs There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, a comedy conveyed via two lectures on the poetry of William Blake. Purchase tickets here for the one-night…
Friday 8/21: The Book Cellar hosts Lavender Voices, an evening of storytelling for queer women. 7 p.m. Author, speaker, and self-proclaimed loudmouth Kate Harding discusses her new book, Asking for…
Friday 8/14: Uncharted Books hosts Loose Chicks for an evening of dramatic soliloquies and quirky monologues. 7 p.m. Tom Witosky and Marc Hansen: How Iowa Led Americans to Marriage Equality.…
Friday 8/7: Steve MacIsaac reads and signs his new work, Shirtlifter, at Unabridged Books. 7 p.m. Victoria Noe launches Friend Grief in the Workplace: More Than an Empty Cubicle, the…
Friday 7/31: Uncharted Books welcomes John Colasacco, Maggie Queeney, and James Niesen. 7 p.m. Tara Ison examines film and identity in Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love,…
Friday 7/24: Browse or buy at the Newberry Library Book Fair from 12 p.m.–8 p.m., or from 10 a.m.–6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Leslie Parry and Christine Sneed have a…
Friday 7/17: Leslie Parry and Christine Sneed converse about their most recently published books, Church of Marvels and Paris, He Said. City Lit Books, 6:30 p.m. Bob Suren reads from…
Friday 7/10: Celebrate the paperback release of Caitlin Moran’s How to Build a Girl at the Swedish History Museum! Women & Children First hosts a reading, signing, and Q&A with…