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Lit Top 5 January 16-31, 2017

January 16, 2017 at 8:39 am by Toni Nealie

by Toni Nealie
January 16, 2017January 24, 2017Filed under:
  • Top 5 Lists

1
Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
(Loyola University)
Keynote speaker is award-winning journalist, professor and social justice organizer Dr. Marc Lamont Hill.
January 25, 5pm

2
The Conversation: Art and Resistance
(Women and Children First)
Eula Biss, Aleksandar Hemon, Coya Paz, Roger Reeves and Monica Trinidad are the inaugural guests of a new literary series.
January 26, 7:30pm

  3
“If Our Bodies Could Talk”
(MATTER Chicago)
The Illinois Science Council and MATTER host doctor-writer James Hamblin to discuss “If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining A Human Body.”
January 18, 6pm

4
Beyza Ozer
(Women and Children First)
Book launch of “Fail Better” by poet Beyza Ozer, with Jenny Boully, Alexis Pope and Joshua Young.
January 20, 7:30pm

5
Wit Rabbit Weekend
(Township)
With Tara Betts, Kelcey Parker Ervick, T.Clutch Fleischmann, Jac Jemc and Fred Schmalz.
January 21, 5pm

Toni Nealie

Toni Nealie is the Literary Editor of Newcity and the author of the essay collection “The Miles Between Me.” A Pushcart Prize nominee, her essays have appeared in Guernica Magazine, Rust Belt: Chicago, The Rumpus, The Offing, Essay Daily, Chicago Quarterly Review, Hobart, Entropy and elsewhere. She worked in magazine journalism, politics and PR in her native New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Singapore and now edits, writes and teaches in Chicago. Find her at toninealie.com and on Twitter @tnealie. She can be reached at toni@newcity.com.

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  • Aleksandar Hemon
  • Alexis Pope
  • Beyza Ozer
  • Coya Paz
  • Dr. Marc Lamont Hill
  • Eula Biss
  • Fred Schmalz
  • Illinois Science Council
  • Jac Jemc
  • James Hamblin
  • Jenny Boully
  • Joshua Young
  • Kelcey Parker Ervick
  • Loyola University
  • Martin Luther King
  • Matter Chicago
  • Monica Trinidad
  • Roger Reeves
  • T.Clutch Fleischmann
  • Tara Betts
  • Township
  • Wit Rabbit Weekend
  • Women and Children Bookstore

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