2 Laura Kipnis: Sex on Campus (Studebaker Theater) The Chicago Humanities Festival and WBEZ present Laura Kipnis, author of “Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus.” May 24, 6pm
3 Chicago Literary Hall of Fame (Newberry Library) Fanny Butcher is inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. Ceremony and reception. May 11, 5pm
4 Poetry Off the Shelf (Poetry Foundation) British-Jamaican poet, performer and educator Raymond Antrobus and Ohio poet, essayist and critic Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib read from their collections. May 3, 7pm
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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