Notable Chicago

Friday 12/11: Volatile! opens at the Poetry Foundation Gallery. Curator Debra Riley Parr discusses the exhibition with scent designers, artists, and poets at 6:30 p.m. Saturday 12/12: Unabridged Bookstore celebrates…

Friday 12/4: The Book Cellar hosts Jen Lancaster, Stacey Ballis, Wendy McClure, Amy Guth, Claire Zulkey, and other funny favorites at the 9th Annual Witty Women Writers Event. 7 p.m.…

Sunday 11/29: June Huitt and Nicole Hollander share stories for Sideswiping Normal. $15 at Martyrs’, 3 p.m. Tuesday 12/1: First of the month? deadline. Back to Print hosts the release…

Friday 11/20: Micah Ling, Douglas Light, and Martínez Pompa share selections from their respective collections at Uncharted Books, 7 p.m. Benjamin Kelner and Anne Kasdorf chat about their Not For…

Friday 11/13: City Lit Books welcomes Francesca Abbate, Toby Altman, and Alix Anne Shaw for Poetry Night. 6:30 p.m. Author Maggie Kast launches her first novel, A Free, Unsullied Land.…

Friday 11/6: 2015 Iowa Short Fiction Award Winners Edward Hamlin (Night in Erg Chebbi and Other Stories) and Charles Haverty (Excommunicados) read selections from their respective works. City Lit Books,…

Friday 10/30: Purchase The Secret Chord to join author Geraldine Brooks for a reading at the Swedish History Museum. Hosted by Women & Children First at 7 p.m. BYOB to…

Friday 10/23: Beautiful and brutal—Bonnie Jo Campbell celebrates her new story collection, Mothers Tell Your Daughters, at Women & Children First, 7:30 p.m. Saturday 10/24: 4th Trimester Bodies Project unveils their…

Friday 10/9: Jarrett Neal celebrates the release of his essay collection, What Color Is Your Hoodie? Women & Children First, 7:30 p.m. Saturday 10/10: Greg Gerke (My Brooklyn Writer Friend),…

Friday 10/2: Malena Mörling and Jonas Ellerström read in English and Swedish from The Star By My Head: Poets from Sweden. Presented with Milkweed Editions, the Swedish American Museum, and…

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…