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 4/10: Head to Hideout for The Interview Show, hosted by Mark Bazer. This month’s installment welcomes guests David Axelrod, Sarah Spain, Craig Benzine, and Mick Jenkins. 9 p.m., $15.…
Friday 4/3: Charles McLeod and Ryan Ridge read from their respective collections, Settlers of Unassigned Lands and American Homes. City Lit Books, 6:30 p.m. Peter Turchi discusses writing as “puzzle,…
Friday 3/27: Aron Dunlap on Lacan and Religion at Seminary Co-op. 6 p.m., free. Hope Springs Eternal at The Hideout for Funny Ha-Ha, hosted this month by Claire Zulkey. Featured…
Friday 3/20: Local author, cartoonist, and graphic novelist Lucy Knisely chats about her two new works, Displacement and An Age of License. Women & Children First, 7 p.m. Richard Price…
Friday 3/13: Naked Girls Reading Chicago celebrates their sixth anniversary of nude performance with Girls Gone Wilde. Studio L’Amour (BYO), 7 p.m. Purchase your $20 tickets here! Saturday 3/14: The…
Saturday 3/7: The Chicago Author’s Club chats with poets Hannah Gamble and Brian Russell at Open Books. 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., free. The Danny’s Reading Series takes a field…
Friday 2/27: Poets, musicians, storytellers, and comedians perform at Opaque Reading, a monthly live-lit series at Uncharted Books. 7 p.m., free. Jeff Phillips and Daniel Gerald Mac Rae have joined…
Friday 2/20: Bad Grammar Theater begins at 6 p.m. and runs until 9 p.m. at Powell’s Bookstore University Village. Come and go as you please! Gerber/Hart Library’s BTQ Book Group…
Friday 2/13: The Poetry Foundation hosts Poetry Out Loud: Chicago Regionals, where Chicago high school champs compete for the chance to represent Illinois at the Poetry Out Loud National Finals…
Friday 2/6: February’s installment of “The Interview Show” at The Hideout features On Immunity and Notes from No Man’s Land author Eula Bliss. Hosted by Mark Bazer at 6:30 p.m.,…
Friday 1/30: The American Library Association sets up the 2015 Chicago Midwinter Meeting at McCormick Place until Tuesday, February 3. You don’t have to be a librarian to attend, but…
Friday 1/23: Seminary Co-op hosts a panel discussion about diversity in children’s books, 6:30 p.m. Shermin Nahid Kruse discusses her new novel, Butterfly Stitching, at The Book Cellar. 7 p.m.,…