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East End Books Ptown Virtual Book Event
East End Books PtownEast End Books Ptown is very happy to welcome Award Winning Author Rebecca Makkai “The Great Believers” for a Virtual Book Event. Join us and immerse yourself in the lives of the unforgettable characters in this brilliant book. The Great Believers, listed by the New York Times as one of the Best 10 Books of […]
Cocktails & Conversation: Kimberly King Parsons, Megha Majumdar & Julia Phillips with Rebecca Makkai
Exile in Bookville 410 S. Michigan Avenue (2nd Floor), Chicago, IL, United StatesWhat better time to host and celebrate four extremely talented National Book Award for fiction long and short listers? We believe two days after the winners of the 2020 National Book Awards winners have been announced, that’s when. Please join us on November 20th at 7pm central as Exile in Bookville welcomes Kimberly King Parsons (Black […]
2020 Is Over: A Variety With Booze Hacks, Music, Ribaldry, Cobblers, and More!
Rough Draft Bar & BooksTo celebrate the paperback launch of his book "The Riots I have Known", Ryan Chapman is hosting a digital variety show with Rough Draft Bar & Books on December 9th, 2020 at 8pm ET. Instead of a reading, let’s have a zoom party. A loose version of “The Tonight Show,” with booze tips for lockdown, […]
PEN Out Loud: Brandon Hobson with Rebecca Makkai
Flash sale until January 27! Use the code WINTERPOL for 50 percent off General Admission tickets. The first 350 Admission With Book tickets will include a bookplate. National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson joins PEN Out Loud to celebrate his latest novel, The Removed. Weaving together multiple first-person narrators and Cherokee folklore, the novel tells the story of […]
Virtual Book Launch: THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE by Julia Fine In Conversation With Rebecca Makkai
Women & Children First 5233 N. Clark St., Chicago, ILJoin us on Women & Children First's Crowdcast Channel for the virtual launch celebration for The Upstairs House by Julia Fine! For this event, Fine will be in conversation with Rebecca Makkai. REGISTER HERE Ravaged and sore from giving birth to her first child, Megan is mostly raising her newborn alone while her husband travels […]
Unabridged Bookstore Presents: Zak Salih’s Virtual Tour for “LET’S GET BACK TO THE PARTY” in conversation with Rebecca Makkai
Unabridged Bookstore 3251 N. Broadway, Chicago, ILIt is 2015, weeks after the Supreme Court marriage equality ruling, and all Sebastian Mote wants is to settle down. A high school art history teacher, newly single and desperately lonely, he envies his queer students their freedom to live openly the youth he lost to fear and shame. When he runs into his childhood […]
