Lit Top 5: October 2023

Sandra Cisneros

1
Chicago Humanities Festival
(Around the city)
Walter Isaacson, Sandra Cisneros and Rachel Maddow and many more highlight the second month of the fall festival and its more than sixty events.

2
Fuller Award for Scott Turow
(Harold Washington Public Library)
The master of the legal thriller gets a lifetime achievement award from the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.
October 5, 5pm

3
Jason Hammel
(City Lit)
The chef discusses his new “Lula Cafe Cookbook” in conversation with fellow chef Jonathan Zaragoza.
October 12, 6:30pm

4
Lit & Luz
The United States-Mexico cultural exchange series celebrates its tenth anniversary with more than a dozen events around the city.
October 13-21

5
50 Years of Ms.
(Women & Children First)
Ms. magazine executive editor Katherine Spillar joins Tina Tchen and the Honorable Carol Moseley Braun to celebrate the new anthology with a conversation about “what the future of feminism and movement journalism demands.”
October 17, 6pm