Chicago’s annual literary festival, formerly known as Chicago Book Week, is now a monthlong event. This year’s edition runs October 1 through 30, with readings and book signings by local and national writers, poets, and scholars as well as discussions, lectures, workshops, tours, and children’s activities at locations throughout the city. Admission is free unless otherwise noted. See separate listing in Readings & Lectures for “One Book, One Chicago” discussions of Willa Cather’s My Antonia. For more information call 312-747-4300, see www.chicagopubliclibrary.org, or contact the hosting venues.
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The journalist and novelist reads from Blessings. 6 PM: Harold Washington Library Center, auditorium, 400 S. State. 312-747-4010.
Sunny Kobe Cook
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3
Susan Power
