Thank you to all of the artists and organizers who collaborated to create the powerful Black Trans Lives Matter mural recently unveiled in Andersonville. We lift up this mural and its message while also acknowledging that if we don't do the work, than it is just performative allyship. We need to show up, speak up, and take action to support and uplift Black Trans Lives.

One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field, bloody and unconscious. Thanks to their intervention, the boy’s life is saved. In the aftermath, all three siblings are irrevocably changed.

At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi’s world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently by everyone. Her deafness downplayed by society and doctors, she struggled to “pass” as hearing for most of her life. Countless cures, treatments, and technologies led to dead ends.

For this event, Eula will be in conversation with Maggie Nelson!

Afi Tekple is a young seamstress in Ghana. She is smart, she is pretty, and she has been convinced by her mother to marry a man she does not know. Afi knows who he is, of course—Elikem is a wealthy businessman whose mother has chosen Afi in the hopes that she will distract him from his relationship with a woman his family claims is inappropriate.

For this event, Jami Attenberg will be in conversation with Susan Choi, author most recently of TRUST EXERCISE, the winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction.

“If I know why they are the way they are, then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am,” says Alex Tuchman of her parents. Now that her father, Victor, is on his deathbed, Alex—a strong-headed lawyer, devoted mother, and loving sister—feels she can finally unearth the secrets of who Victor is and what he did over the course of his life and career.

Please join us for a virtual poetry reading celebrating new collections by Sumita Chakraborty, S. Brook Corfman, Taylor Johnson, and Lucia LoTempio.

Please join us for a virtual reading celebrating the publication of Khadijah Queen's Anodyne. Queen will be joined by Elisa Gabbert, author of The Unreality of Memory.

All Clare Lehane wanted was a new start. When her problem with pills costs her her job in Chicago, she moves to Money Creek in rural Illinois to take up her legal career in a small firm and remake her life. But old habits die hard, and she soon finds a drug dealer, Henry, who turns out to be the son of her new boss.

In these remarkable essays, Michele Morano explores the pleasures, possibilities, strangeness, and lessons of unconsummated romance. With insight and imagination, Like Love interweaves poignant, humorous episodes from adulthood with the backstory of a young family’s turbulent breakup.

For this event, Emily will be in conversation with National Book Award finalist, Rebecca Makkai!

At the end of the 1990s, with the art market finally recovered from its disastrous collapse, Miss Rebecca Farwell has made a killing at Christie’s in New York City, selling a portion of her extraordinary art collection for a rumored 900 percent profit. To some, the elusive Miss Farwell is a shark with outstanding business acumen. To others, she’s a heartless capitalist whose only interest in art is how much she can make.

Twelve-year-old Maya is the only one in her South Side Chicago neighborhood who witnesses weird occurrences like werehyenas stalking the streets at night and a scary man made of shadows plaguing her dreams. Her friends try to find an explanation—perhaps a ghost uprising or a lunchroom experiment gone awry.

At forty, Margaret quits her sales job to follow her husband's hotel career to Paris. She's setting sail on this adventure with a glass half full of bravery, a well-traveled passport, a journal in which she plans to write her novel, and the mentally engrained Davis Family Handbook of Rules to Live By.

For this Zoom event, Riva Lehrer will be in conversation with Audrey Niffenegger!

WRBG is back!

review the upcoming reading list.

Virtual Book Launch

Virtual Book Launch

Virtual Author Reading