Lit Top 5: September 2021

Achy Obejas

1
Achy Obejas
(Women and Children First)
Natalie Moore hosts a virtual conversation with the longtime Chicagoan, now on the West Coast, about her bilingual poetry collection, “Boomerang/Bumerán.”
September 8, 7pm

2
Printers Row Lit Fest
(South Dearborn Street)
The Midwest’s largest outdoor gathering of book lovers returns, with author appearances and bookstores.
September 11-12

3
Franny Billingsley
(Seminary Co-Op)
The National Book Award finalist and Co-Op’s children’s bookseller reads from “The Robber Girl.”
September 18, 11:30am

4
Induction, Class of 2019 and 2020
(Chicago Literary Hall of Fame)
Frank London Brown, Jeanette Howard Foster, Carlos Cortez and Gene Wolfe are celebrated in an event at the City Lit Theater.
September 19, 6:30pm

5
Fuller Award: Reginald Gibbons
(Chicago Literary Hall of Fame)
The prolific Chicago writer gets a lifetime achievement award, at the Newberry Library.
September 30, 6pm