Flyleaf Second Sunday Poetry Series: Michael Dechane and Andy Young

Join Flyleaf Books for their Monthly Poetry series, an afternoon of poetic readings. Featured poets will each read for 20 minutes, followed by a short break to sign books, then an open mic. 

Book Event: In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life

Regina Kunzel (Yale University) will join the Gender History Workshop for a casual lunch conversation about her work in gender and queer history in the US. RSVP here

Book Event - Moon Mirrored Indivisible

Author of Moon Mirrored Indivisible, Farid Matuk will have multiple presentations at the University of Arizona's Tucson Festival of Books. More informationhere

Book Event - Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential

FCP welcomes Dan Pallotta, a pioneer in the global effort to transform the way our culture evaluates the character and impact of nonprofits. The afternoon starts with an exclusive screening of his movie “UnCharitable,” followed by a virtual, fireside chat with Dan where he talks about his conviction that unleashed charities can play the leading role in creating an unimaginably beautiful world that works for everyone.

At Skylight: CD Eskilson presents SCREAM/QUEEN w/ Edwin Bodney, Sara Ellen Fowler, & Dare Williams

A debut poetry collection drawing on horror-movie tropes to examine the body—both its traumas and its possibilities.

Book Event - Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech

Join us to hear Professor Allison Carruth speak about her new book, Novel Ecologies, in conversation with Vinson Cunningham.

Book Presentation: Slashing Sounds

On World Poetry Day, the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago and University of Chicago Press will host a book presentation of Slashing Sounds by Jolanda Insana, translated by Catherine Theis. With this bilingual edition of Slashing Sounds, Catherine Theis presents the first book-length collection of Insana’s poetry in English, a powerful offering that addresses a lack of female Italian voices in Anglophone poetry publishing. Register here

Book Event - The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery

Jonathan Schroeder speaks about the John Jacobs Autobiography “The True Story of Slavery: The United States Governed by Six Thousand Despots.” 

Author Event - Jeffrey Moser

 

We invite you to join the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago for this upcoming lecture as part of the 2024-25 Smart Lecture series. The lecture is Thursday, April 3 in CWAC 157 at 5:00pm CT with a Q&A session and reception to follow. 

Book Event - The Odyssey

Join celebrated translator, critic and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn as he presents his landmark new translation of Homer’s The Odyssey. Buy tickets here

Book Event - The Odyssey

Harvard Book Store welcomes Daniel Mendelsohn—Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College, and frequent contributor of essays to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books where he is Editor-at-Large—for a discussion of his new translation of Homer's The Odyssey. He will be joined in conversation by James Wood—professor of the practice of literary criticism at Harvard University and book critic at The New Yorker.

Book Event - The Odyssey

Join us as Daniel Mendelsohn, celebrated author, critic, classicist, and translator, discusses his new translation of The Odyssey.

Daniel Mendelsohn — The Odyssey — at Conn Ave

Join Daniel Mendelsohn as he discusses his upcoming translation of The Odyssey at Politics and Prose.