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.…
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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…
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,…
Notable Chicago: 4/18–4/24
Friday 4/18: Angie Chuang, Assistant Professor of Journalism at American University School of Communication, reads from and discusses her book The Four Words for Home, documenting a five-year journey comparing a…
Notable Chicago: 4/11–4/17
Friday 4/11: Poetry Foundation launches the Favorite Poem Project, a program that celebrates poetry and documents how poetry affects and influences people of Chicago. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky…
Notable Chicago 12/1–12/7
Sunday 12/1: It’s the last night of Here’s the Story for 2013, and it’s a doozy. For this year end celebration, they ditch the open mic portion and have a…
Notable Chicago 11/17–11/23
It’s a tough call this week. Most days feature two fantastic events happening concurrently. Choose wisely! Sunday 11/17: Sunday Salon features its monthly prose reading series at Black Rock Pub.…