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Tuesday, March 1
at 7:15 p.m.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Sunday, March 6
at 2 p.m.
Sunday, March 13
at 5 p.m.
Bad Magic
Sunday, March 13
at 6:30 p.m.
Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution
Tuesday, March 15
at 7:30 p.m.
My Life on the Road
Sunday, March 20
at 2 p.m.
Bad Feminist
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Wednesday, April 6
at 7:30 p.m. Lisa Beazley Chicago Launch Party
Thursday, April 7
at 7:30 p.m. Toni Nealie Book Launch Party
Saturday, April 9
at 3 p.m. "It's All About the Bears" Story Time with Miss Linda! Kids' Story Time
for ages 2 to 4
Tuesday, April 12
at 7:30 p.m.,
doors open at 7 p.m. Sappho's Salon Co-curated by Liz Baudler and Eileen Tull
Wednesday, April 13
at 7:30 p.m. Reading and Signing
Thursday, April 14
at 7:30 p.m. Kim Brooks Book Launch Party
Wednesday, April 20
at 7:30 p.m. Elizabeth Crain Reading and Signing
Thursday, April 21
at 7:30 p.m.
(New in paperback!) and Grace Tiffany, author of
Friday, April 22nd
at 7:30 p.m. There's a You I Miss: An Evening of Poetry and Prose on the Ways We Connect and Disconnect featuring Cameron Gearen, Kate Ingold, and Rita Pyrillis
Stay tuned for more exciting save-the-dates from your local feminist bookstore!
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Dear Friends of Women & Children First,
Celebrate Women's History Month by supporting women authors! We have a star-studded March line-up, including a reading and signing with Tracy Chevalier, author of the international bestseller Girl with the Pearl Earring. Tickets available HERE. We're also eagerly awaiting the return of one of the smartest women we know, Peggy Orenstein. We'll be hosting Orenstein on Monday, April 4 at the Swedish American Museum in honor of her new book Girls & Sex, a meticulously researched, fascinating and frightening follow-up to the acclaimed Cinderella Ate My Daughter. Stay connected to W&CF on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to make sure that you're one of the first to know about some other BIG author announcements . . . coming soon! Many thanks,
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Thursday, March 3 at 7:30 p.m.
Join Libby and Lori for a conversation about mysteries and the craft of writing them. Thirty-five years ago, Libby Fischer Hellmann left a career in broadcast news in Washington, DC, and moved to Chicago, where she began to write gritty crime fiction, an output that now includes twelve novels and twenty short stories. Her newest novel, Jump Cut, continues the Ellie Foreman series. In 2005, Libby was the national president of Sisters in Crime, an organization dedicated to the advancement of female crime fiction authors. Lori Rader-Day, author of The Black Hour and Little Pretty Things, is a two-time Mary Higgins Clark Award nominee and the recipient of the 2014 Anthony Award for Best First Novel. Lori's short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery magazine, Time Out Chicago, and Good Housekeeping. She lives in Chicago, where she teaches mystery writing at StoryStudio Chicago and serves as the president of the Midwest chapter of the Mystery Writers of America. Her third novel, An Elegant Hand, will be released in spring 2017.
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Stomp and Shout Chicago:
A Music & Creative Play Class
Sunday, March 6 at 3 p.m.
Kids' Event for ages 0 to 5
Stomp and Shout Chicago is coming to the bookstore for a mini-class! Stomp and Shout's signature music and creative play classes are crafted to keep your child motivated and looking forward to the next activity by introducing a music curriculum influenced by rock, blues, folk, jazz, and pop. Their original music encourages both you and your child to play and engage in imaginative ways. In 2013, Red Tricycle named Stomp and Shout one of the 15 Best Things To Hit the Chicago Kid's Scene. More info here.
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Sappho's Salon
Co-curated by Eileen Tull and Liz Baudler
Tuesday, March 8 at 7:30 p.m., Doors open at 7 p.m.
A monthly performance salon, featuring expressions of queerness, gender, and feminism
This month's Sappho's Salon offers a unique lineup of artists including Samantha Bailey of the web series You're So Talented, interdisciplinary performer Kate Hawbaker-Krohn, and more! You're So Talented is a series following Bea, an out-of-work Chicago artist, as she navigates her twenties and all of its inevitable dramas. The series was created by Sam Bailey, an actor, writer, and theatermaker in Chicago. It was was honored by this year's Tribeca Film Festival as part of their New Online Work Program and is nominated for a Gotham Award in the Breakthrough Series--Short Form category. Kate Hawbaker-Krohn
is a theater and performing artist whose stories are rooted in queerness, which for her, manifests in her gender expression and sexuality. She seeks to craft and perform queer narratives in order to challenge the heteronormative status quo by revealing universal emotional experiences. Doors open at 7, performances start at 7:30. Admission is $7 to $10 sliding scale with all proceeds going towards the performers and the Women's Voices Fund.
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Local author and educator Shanti Elliott proposes that teachers tap the creative and subversive energies of young people. Elliott believes that students must learn to play democracy just as they might play a violin or a sport: not as a game of "let's pretend," but fully participating in the language, spaces, and possibilities of public life. Based on twenty years of teaching experience and research in schools across the country,
Teaching and Learning on the Verge
demonstrates how educators in all disciplines can integrate civic engagement, multicultural literacy, and leadership into their classrooms. Shanti Elliott directs the Civic Engagement program at the Francis W. Parker School in Chicago. She also co-leads the Teachers' Inquiry Project and teaches in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. This event will include celebratory refreshments.
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Books that Fight Bullies: A Young Adult Author Conversation featuring
Bridget Birdsall, author of Double Exposure & Liza Wiemer, author of Hello?
Thursday, March 10 at 7:30 p.m. Conversation and Signing
Two YA authors will discuss how their books have been used to help teens fight back against bullying. Bridget Birdsall is an author, teacher, and inspirational speaker. Her most recent novel, Double Exposure,
the story of an intersex-transgender athlete, won the Independent Book of the Year Award (IPPY) and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Publishers Weekly named it a top anti-bullying book, and Teaching Tolerance highly recommends it for middle and high school students. Learn more at bridgetbirdsall.com. Liza Wiemer is an award-winning educator with twenty-five years of teaching experience.
Hello?, her debut YA novel, was named a November 2015 Goodreads Best Young Adult Novel and was called "one of the most unique books of the year" by Paste magazine. Liza is a graduate of University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in education and is the mother of two young adult sons.
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We're delighted to celebrate the paperback release of Death Stalks Door County by one of our favorite local authors, Patricia Skalka! Six deaths on Wisconsin's beautiful Door County peninsula mar the summertime mood. Murders, or bizarre accidents? Newly hired park ranger Dave Cubiak, a former Chicago homicide detective who has recently lost both his wife and his daughter, has had enough of death. But in a desperate search for clues, Cubiak uncovers a tangled web of greed, betrayal, bitter rivalries, and lost love beneath the peninsula's travel-brochure veneer. Death Stalks Door County is the first installment in the Dave Cubiak Door County Mysteries. Patricia Skalka, a lifelong Chicagoan, turned to fiction following a successful career in nonfiction. She is a former magazine editor, Reader's Digest staff writer, writing instructor, and ghost writer. She is also the author of Nurses On Our Own, the true story of two pioneering local nurse practitioners.
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Susan Skog spent 16 months interviewing women about their experiences with woman vs. woman bullying in settings ranging from the workplace to parenting groups. Based on these interviews, Mending the Sisterhood & Ending Women's Bullying shows how to break the silence around woman vs. woman bullying; better understand the roots of women's conflicts; and ease the judgments, competition, and jealousy. A consultant for developing-world nonprofits, Susan is also the author of seven books and a Huffington Post blogger and has written for many top magazines. This event will include a special introduction by Mary Kay Devine. Mary Kay Devine is the director of community initiatives at Women Employed. A mother of four and a former union organizer, Devine is a fun-loving, hard-working feminist and advocate. In her free time, Mary Kay co-facilitates the Family of Women book club that meets at Women & Children First, which meets on the first Sunday of every month.
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The Legacy of Lois Lane - Women in a World of Superheroes featuring: Lauren Burke, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Caitlin Rosberg, Katie Schenkel, and Tim Hanley
Investigating Lois Lane
Wednesday, March 16 at 7:30 p.m.
This panel will discuss the superhero genre through the lens of the heroines who have all too often been overlooked: fearless reporter Lois Lane, Wonder Woman, and a host of others. Lauren Burke edits children's books by day and produces comics by night. She has bullied three editions of the Ladies' Night Anthology into existence, showcasing the work of diverse women in comics, and she is now working on a book about the mysterious disappearance of Agatha Christie. Tim Hanley is a comic book historian and the author of - Learn more about the panelists HERE.
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Rob Roberge in conversation with
Suzanne Scanlon Liar: A Memoir
Friday, March 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Reading, Conversation, and
Signing
When Rob Roberge learned that he was likely developing a progressive memory-eroding disease from years of hard living and frequent concussions, he was terrified. In a desperate attempt to preserve his identity, he set out to record the most formative moments of his life--from the brutal murder of his childhood girlfriend, to a diagnosis of rapid-cycling bipolar disorder, to opening for famed indie band Yo La Tengo at The Fillmore in San Francisco. In this darkly funny memoir, Roberge struggles to keep addiction and mental illness from d estroying the good life he has built, while he is forced to acknowledge the increasingly blurred line between the lies we tell others and the ones we tell ourselves. Rob Roberge is the author of four books of fiction, including The Cost of Living. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals and has been widely anthologized. He's core faculty at the University of California, Riverside's Palm Desert MFA in Writing program. He also plays guitar and sings with the LA-based art-punk band, the Urinals. Suzanne Scanlon is the author of Promising Young Women and Her 37th Year, An Index. She lives in Chicago and teaches in the creative writing programs of Columbia College Chicago and Roosevelt University.
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Michelle Duster, Trina Sotira, along with featured Contributors to
Celebrate Women's History Month by joining co-editors Michelle Duster and Trina Sotira along with several contributors for a reading from Shifts: An Anthology of Women's Growth Through Change. This anthology includes poems, essays, and short stories by 35 women from around the country. They write about how they grew personally as a result of experiencing some type of change in their lives. You can learn more about the book atwww.musewrite.com. Trina and Michelle are both professors (Trina at College of DuPage and Michelle at Columbia College Chicago) as well as writers and, between the two of them, have published five books.
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**Please note: this event will be held at the Swedish American Museum,
5211 N. Clark St.**
Join us for a reading and signing with bestselling author Tracy Chevalier, as she discusses her riveting new drama of a pioneer family on the American frontier. James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings from a local tree man known as John Appleseed so they can cultivate the fifty apple trees required to stake their claim on the property. But the orchard they plant sows the seeds of a long battle. Tracy Chevalier is the New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including Girl with a Pearl Earring, which has been translated into thirty-nine languages and made into an Oscar-nominated film. Born and raised in Washington, DC, she lives in London with her husband and son. For tickets and info click HERE!
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Samantha Irby and Megan Stielstra: A Conversation on Writing, Reading, and Publishing in Chicago
Wednesday, March 23 at 7 p.m.
This event, featuring superstar local authors Megan Stielstra and Samantha Irby will begin with a short reading from Megan and Sam followed by a conversation about the culture and processes of working within Chicago's lit scene-writing, publishing, performing, and making space for diverse, independent work. This convers ation, which will be moderated by W&CF co-owner Sarah Hollenbeck, is part of the Humanities Plunge, an alternative spring break with the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern University, but is open to the public. Samantha Irby is a Chicago-based writer, performer, author of the hilarious essay
collection Meaty, and creator of the must-read blog bitchesgottaeat.com. Sam is currently at work on a forthcoming book , which all of Chicago is eagerly awaiting. A longtime company member with 2nd Story, Megan Stielstra is the author of Once I Was Cool-featured in Best of 2014 lists of Chicago magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and Salon. Her next collection, Come Here Fear, is forthcoming. Her work appears in the Best American Essays, Poets & Writers, Guernica, and the Rumpus, and she recently joined the New York Times as a contributing opinion writer. She teaches creative nonfiction at Northwestern University.
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Friday, March 25
at 7:30 p.m
Reading and Signing
Examining the deeper cultural backstory of fundamentalist attacks on same-sex marriage, Confronting Religious Denial of Gay Marriage ranges from mid-20th century Right-wing political campaigns to Iron Age biology and Greco-Roman sexual anxieties. Wallace explains why these attacks are both intellectually groundless and without basis in moral theology. Wallace illustrates how secular humanists and Christian humanists are natural allies in confronting fundamentalist attacks on marriage, human dignity, and civil rights. Wallace is a cultural historian and literary critic on the faculty of the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. This book is part of a series called "Confronting Fundamentalism."
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Please join us for a reading and Q&A with Katherine Don, author of Real Courage: The Story of Harper Lee, a young adult biography of Harper Lee. Katherine will talk about Harper Lee's legacy, the controversy over her second book, Scout as a hero for women and girls, and the enduring impact of
To Kill a Mockingbird on American culture and politics. Katherine Don is a Chicago-based journalist, author, and freelance book editor whose writing has appeared at Salon, the Huffington Post, the
Atlantic online, and Bustle. She is the author or co-author of eight nonfiction books, and her first screenplay--a short film she co-wrote with a friend--was the first-place winner in the screenwriting category at the 2014 Los Angeles Movie Awards.
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Peggy Orenstein
 Monday, April 4
at 7 p.m.
Reading and Signing
**Please note: this event will be held at the Swedish American Museum, 5211 N. Clark St.**
Peggy Orenstein, who dissected the insidious "girlie girl" culture among young girls (and pre-teens) in her New York Times bestseller Cinderella Ate My Daughter, now directs her attention as journalist and mother to teenage sexuality. In Girls & Sex, Orenstein, whom People calls "such a breezy, funny writer, it's easy to forget she's an important thinker too"- examines how contemporary culture, saturated in sexting, casual hook-ups, and Internet porn, affects high school and college girls and the choices they make. For this book, Orenstein interviewed nearly one hundred girls between the ages of fifteen and twenty and consulted with dozens of psychologists, professors, and other experts. What she discovered was often surprising, frequently upsetting, and always illuminating. "Even in consensual encounters, much of what girls described was painful to hear," she reports. "When so much has changed for girls in the public realm, why hasn't more-much more-changed in the private one?" Peggy Orenstein is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, and she has been published in USA Today, Parenting, Salon, and the New Yorker and has contributed commentaries to NPR's All Things Considered. She lives in Northern California with her husband and their daughter, Daisy.
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