1 Karen Abbott (Binny’s/The Book Cellar) The best-selling author discusses her latest dive into Midwestern debauchery, “The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America,” in conversation with Greg Borzo at The Book Cellar and in a paid event that includes booze tastings at Binny’s. August 9; August 10
2 Iliana Regan (Women and Children First) Book-launch party for Michelin-starred chef’s memoir, “Burn the Place” August 1
3 Rev. Sharon Risher (Seminary Co-op) Reverend Sharon Risher discusses her book, “For Such a Time as This: Hope and Forgiveness After The Charleston Massacre,” written in the aftermath of losing her mother and two cousins in the white-supremacist Bible-study mass murder. August 17
4 Claire Lombardo (The Book Table/Women and Children First) The Oak Park native discusses her debut novel, a multigenerational story set in, well, Oak Park. In conversation with Rebecca Makkai (The Book Table) and Elizabeth Taylor (WCF). August 5; August 8
5 Jim Steichen (Seminary Co-op) Jim Steichen discusses “Balanchine and Kirstein’s American Enterprise,” his history of a seminal era in American dance August 11
