1
Daniel Borzutzky and Nate Marshall
Seminary Co-op
Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, Daniel Borzutzky reads and discusses “Lake Michigan,” poems about an imagined prison camp on the lakeshore.
March 14
2
“They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us”
Women and Children First Bookstore
Poet and cultural critic Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib in conversation with Jessica Hopper
March 21
3
“The Radium Girls”
The American Writers Museum
Kate Moore follows the women, “the shining girls,” who worked with radium.
March 18
4
“Bizarre Romance”
Women and Children First Bookstore
Audrey Niffenegger and illustrator Eddie Campbell read and sign “Bizarre Romance,” stories about love.
March 20
5
David Mamet
Fine Arts Building
Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, screenwriter and director David Mamet discusses “Chicago,” his first novel in two decades.
March 1
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.