Notable Chicago: 9/11–9/17
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…
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Notable Chicago: 9/4–9/10
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…
Notable Chicago: 8/28–9/3
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…
Notable Chicago: 8/21–8/27
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…
Notable Chicago: 8/14–8/20
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.…
Notable Chicago: 8/7–8/13
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…
Notable Chicago: 7/31–8/6
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,…
Notable Chicago: 7/24–7/30
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…
Notable Chicago: 7/17–7/23
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…
Notable Chicago: 7/10–7/16
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…
Notable Chicago: 7/3–7/9
Tuesday 7/7: Author Ben Tanzer (The New York Stories) and poet Jonathan Travelstead (How We Bury Our Dead) share their respective collections. Seth Berg and Rumpus Sunday Editor Zoe Zolbrod join them…
Notable Chicago: 6/26–7/2
Friday 6/26: Horror writer Jonathan Ryan reads from Dark Bride, the newest installment in his 3 Gates of the Dead series. City Lit Books, 6:30 p.m. Express yourself constructively at…