Lit Top 5: November 2023

Joy Harjo/Photo: Matika Wilbur

1
Chicago Humanities Festival
(Various)
Joyce Carol Oates, Roxane Gay, Tracy K. Smith and many more highlight the final month of the fall festival.

2
Ben Austen
(Seminary Co-op)
The Chicago author discusses his new book, “Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change,” with Alex Kotlowitz.
November 3, 6pm

3
’80s Night
(American Writers Museum)
The Get Lit monthly party includes a John Hughes pop-up exhibit featuring his typewriters, as in where iconic lines like, “Bueller?… Bueller?” were written.
November 8, 5:30pm

4
Tommy Orange
(Harold Washington Library Center)
The author will discuss “There There” in the One Book One Chicago Keynote Event.
November 15, 6pm

5
Joy Harjo
(Harold Washington Library Center)
The twenty-third U.S. Poet Laureate closes out the library’s Native American Heritage Month in conversation with Adrian Matejka.
November 29, 6pm

This event is postponed due to a family emergency. A new date will be announced soon.