Thursday, Jan. 17
at 7 p.m.
Amy Gentry
Author Reading
Wednesday, Jan. 23
at 7 p.m.
Amelia Bonow
& local contributors
Anthology Reading
Friday, Jan. 25
at 7 p.m.
Rachel DeWoskin
Book Launch Party
Wednesday, Jan. 30
at 7 p.m.
A Storytelling Show & Podcast
Thursday, Jan. 31
at 7 p.m.
E. Patrick Johnson
Jennifer Nash
Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality
Joint Book Launch Party
Friday, Feb. 1
at 7 p.m.
Daisy Johnson in conversation with Laura Adamczyk
Everything Under
Author Reading
Wednesday, Feb. 6
at 7 p.m.
Chloe Benjamin in conversation with Rebecca Makkai
Paperback Tour
Friday, Feb. 8
at 7 p.m.
Ann Russo
Book Launch Party
Sunday, Feb. 10
at 6 p.m.
The Handmaid's Tale
Fan Fiction Reading
Thursday, Feb. 14
at 7 p.m.
Anne Elizabeth Moore
Author Reading
Thursday, Feb. 21
at 7 p.m.
Dave Cullen
Author Reading
Sunday, Feb. 24
at 4 p.m.
Lucy Knisley
Book Launch Party
Wednesday, Feb. 27
at 7 p.m.
Anissa Gray
Author Reading
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Book Group
Sunday, Dec. 2 at 2 p.m.
How We Survived Communism
& Even Laughed
by Slavenka Drakulic
Sunday, Dec. 9 at 4 p.m.
Trainwreck
by Sady Doyle
Sunday, Dec. 9 at 5 p.m.
Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
Sunday, Dec. 16
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Suggested Reading:
The Power of Meaning
by Emily Esfahani Smith
Sunday, Dec. 16
at 2:30 p.m.
Trans Like Me
by C N Lester
Monday, Dec. 17
at 7:15 p.m.
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
by Barbara Comyns
Tuesday, Dec. 18
at 7:30 p.m.
Selection Meeting & Potluck
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Dear Friends of Women & Children First,
The holiday season has arrived in Andersonville! Check out all of the neighborhood festivities--Late Night Andersonville, Julmarknad, and more--listed
HERE.
We will be hosting two charity drives this month: a book drive for
SitStayRead and a toy drive for
Care for Real. More details below.
Be sure to follow us on Instagram (@wcfbook) as we will be announcing our bestseller lists and each of our bookseller's Top Five Books of 2018 very soon!
Thank you for shopping local and independent this holiday season!
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Come support Care for Real, a wonderful local organization making a difference for families in our community. We will be accepting donations from November 30 through December 14. Most-needed items include: dolls, cars, backpacks, legos, puzzles, paints sets, and crafts, backpacks, and movie passes, gloves, mittens, caps and hats, scarves, and personal care items. READ MORE.
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Erica Meiners &
Jill Petty
with Tara Betts, Monica Cosby, Deana Lewis & Maya Schenwar
The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences Working Toward Freedom
Friday, November 30 at 7 p.m.
Anthology Reading
"Long-term offenders," (LTOs) is the state's term for those it condemns to effective death by imprisonment. Often serving sentences of sixty to eighty years, like the rest of the U.S. prison population they are disproportionately poor and non-white. This striking collection of essays gives voice to people both inside and outside prison struggling for liberation, dismantles claims that the "tough on crime" agenda and LTO sentencing keep us safe, and reveals the white supremacism and patriarchy upon which the prison system rests.
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Story Time with
Drag Queens!
Donation Drive Kick-off: SitStayRead Wishing Tree
Saturday, December 1 at 11:30 a.m.
Beloved drag queens Muffy Fishbasket and Ashley Morgan will join us for our annual reading of The Christmas Truck by local author Bradley Blankenship and other holiday stories. Representatives of the amazing literacy program SitStayRead, along with trained reading dogs, will also be in attendance to talk about the organization and the work that they do. READ MORE
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Wednesday, December 5 at 7 p.m.
Reading and Book Signing
Lucille Howard has begun to teach baking classes, and her classes are so popular that she hires Iris, a new resident of Mason, Missouri, as an assistant. When tragedy strikes, Lucille begins to look out for Lincoln, Iris's son. Elizabeth Berg is the author of many bestselling novels, including The Story of Arthur Truluv, Open House, Talk Before Sleep, and The Year of Pleasures. READ MORE
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Jenn Stroud Rossmann in conversation with Nami Mun
The Place You're Supposed to Laugh
Thursday, December 6 at 7 p.m.
Author Conversation
The dot-com bubble has burst, and holy calamity is raining down on 14-year-old Chad Loudermilk. Next door lives mogul Scot MacAvoy, who makes the Loudermilk family's struggle to stay afloat seem that much harder. Jenn Stroud Rossmann writes the essay series An Engineer Reads a Novel for Public Books. Nami Mun has received several awards, including the Whiting Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the Chicago Public Library's 21st Century Award. READ MORE
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Late Night Andersonville!
Dec. 7 & 21 from 7 to 9 p.m.
This year, more than 70 businesses are participating in Andersonville Late Nights with special deals, seasonal refreshments, free trolley rides, and other festivities. At Women & Children First, we'll be offering 20% off 2019 calendars and boxed holiday cards from 7 to 9 p.m.
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Caitlin Kunkel, Brooke Preston,
Fiona Taylor & Carrie Wittmer
New Erotica for Feminists: Satirical Fantasies of Love, Lust, and Equal Pay
Friday, December 7 at 7 p.m.
Author Reading
Imagine a world where all erotica is written by feminists. Both light hearted and empowering, New Erotica for Feminists is a sly, satirical take on all the things that turn feminists on. Caitlin Kunkel, Brooke Preston, Fiona Taylor, and Carrie Wittmer are comedy writers and satirists whose work has been featured in the New Yorker, McSweeney's, and many other outlets across the vast internet.
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Sappho's Salon
Holiday Open Mic
Monday, December 10
Doors at 7 p.m. Show at 7:30 p.m.
Our lineup will be trans/nb/gnc folks, and we'd love trans and gnc folks to be at the forefront of our open mic. As always, pay what you can, because proceeds go to the performers and the Women's Voices Fund. READ MORE
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Barbara Ransby
Making All Black Lives Matter
Wednesday, December 12 at 7 p.m.
Author Reading
In Making All Black Lives Matter, award-winning historian and longtime activist Barbara Ransby outlines the scope and genealogy of the Black Lives Matter movement, documenting its roots in Black feminist politics and situating it squarely in a Black radical tradition. Barbara Ransby is a historian, author, and longtime activist. She is the author of the acclaimed biography Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement. READ MORE
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Katie Batza
Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics
in the 1970s
Friday, January 4 at 7 p.m.
Book Launch Party
Before AIDS focuses on gay health institutions in Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles, placing them in a larger political context and following them into the first five years of the AIDS crisis. Like many other minority communities in the 1970s, gay health activists of the 1970s changed the medical and political understandings health to reflect the new realities of their own revolution. Katie Batza graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a PhD in history and a graduate certificate in Gender and Women's Studies. READ MORE
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In Deep: How I Survived Gangs,
Heroin, and Prison to Become a Chicago Violence Interrupter
Thursday, January 10 at 7 p.m.
Author Conversation
Today,
Angalia Bianca
is one of Chicago's foremost authorities on violence prevention, and she works with Cure Violence to change lives. But earlier in life, she spent twelve years in prison for forgery, embezzlement, and drug dealing.
In Deep
is a blunt, honest look at Bianca's life, and its mind-blowing stories take readers deep into a world of grit and gang violence. In addition to co-authoring
In Deep
,
Linda Beckstrom
has written a novel and is working on her third book. READ MORE
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Karina Longworth
Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood
Screening, Author Talk & Book Signing
at Chicago Filmmakers,
5720 N. Ridge
Monday, January 14 at 7 p.m.
Tickets on sale VERY soon!
In Outrage, a young woman's life is shattered when she is raped on her way home from work. This black-and-white B movie is notable for being only the second post-Code Hollywood film to deal with the issue of rape. Seduction reveals a riveting history of Hollywood's glamorous Golden Age through the stories of actresses pursued by Howard Hughes. Karina Longworth is the creator, producer, and host of You Must Remember This, a podcast on the secret and forgotten history of 20th-century Hollywood. READ MORE
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