Brooks Day@Nite (Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts) Celebrating Gwendolyn Brooks’ one hundredth birthday. Featuring Angela Jackson, Patricia Smith, Kevin Coval, Nate Marshall, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Tara Betts, Peter Kahn and many more. June 7, 6pm
2 Printers Row Lit Fest (Printers Row) Featuring Rita Dove, Cory Doctorow, Amy Dickinson, Scott Turow, Luvvie Ajayi, Christian Picciolini and many more. June 10-11, 10am-6pm
3 Arundhati Roy (Francis W. Parker School) The author of the Booker Prize-winning novel “The God of Small Things” discusses her second novel, “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.” June 23, 7pm, $10-$15
4 Roxane Gay (Francis W. Parker School) “Hunger” is a memoir of food, weight and self-image. June 19, 7pm
5 Dave Levitan (Volumes Bookcafe) Science journalist Dave Levitan discusses his book “Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent and Utterly Mangle Science” June 1, 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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