SAVE THE DATE
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Tuesday, Nov. 5
at 6 p.m.
Andrea Beatty
Presentation
& Book Signing
Please note: this event will be held at the Swedish American Museum,
5211 N. Clark St.
Wednesday, Nov. 6
at 7 p.m.
Mikki Kendall &
A. D'Amico in conversation with Jamie Nesbitt Golden
Thursday, Nov. 7
at 7 p.m.
Jennifer Block in conversation with
Friday, Nov. 8
at 7 p.m.
Carmen Maria Machado in conversation with Emil Ferris
Please note: this event will be held at the Swedish American Museum,
5211 N. Clark St.
Please note: this event will be held at Wilson Abbey (935 W. Wilson). This event is co-sponsored by Loyola University's Women's Studies & Gender Studies Department
Tuesday, Nov. 12
at 7 p.m.
Lindy West
The Witches Are Coming
Please note: this event will be held at Wilson Abbey (935 W. Wilson).
Wednesday, Nov. 13
at 7 p.m.
Lara Prescott
Thursday, Nov. 14
at 7 p.m.
Lewis Raven Wallace in conversation with Tracy Baim
Author Conversation
Friday, Nov. 15
at 7 p.m.
Eli Clare
Author Reading and Book Signing
Saturday, Nov. 16
at 6 p.m.
Raquel Salas Rivera & Daniel Borzutzky
Wednesday, Nov. 20
at 7 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 21
at 7 p.m.
Leila Taylor in conversation with Angelica Jade Bastién
Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul
Author Conversation
Saturday, Nov. 30
ALL DAY!
Small Business Saturday
Wednesday, Dec. 4
at 7 p.m.
Johanny Vazquez Paz
Poetry Reading
Thursday, Dec. 5
at 7 p.m.
E. Patrick Johnson
Book Launch Party
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Sunday, September 27
at 1 p.m.
Everything Inside
by Edwidge Danticat
Sunday, September 29
10 a.m. to noon
Suggested Reading:
Before I Leave: Wisdom from the Stories of Six Women Over 80
by Jenney Egertson
Sunday, October 6
at 2 p.m.
The Girls Who Went Away
by Ann Fessler
Monday, October 8
at 7:15 p.m.
Nervous Conditions
by Dangarembga
(please note date change)
Feminist Book Group
Sunday, October 13
at 4 p.m.
Surfacing
by Margaret Atwood
Teens First Book Group
Sunday, October 13
at 5 p.m.
Good Omens
by Neil Gaiman
Women's Book Group
Tuesday, October 15
at 7:30 p.m.
The Great Believers
by Rebecca Makkai
Social Justice
Book Group
Sunday, October 20
at 1:30 p.m
Kindred
by Octavia Butler
(Please note time change)
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Qigong Class
Sunday, October 6
9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Qigong Class
Join us for a new 8-week session of one of the world's oldest healing practices! Teacher Francesca Segal has been teaching tai chi and qigong in the Chicago area for more than 20 years. Contact her at f.segal120@gmail.com for more information or to sign up for our Sunday morning class.
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Pre-order
Announcements
By ordering a forthcoming book through your local independent bookstore, you can get access to exclusive offers, special giveaways, and signed copies! Below, explore the books we are most excited about and any associated promotions
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by the Phaidon Press Publishing
20% off all pre-orders
for this title!
Free metallic tote bag with pre-order! (while supplies last)
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by Elizabeth Strout
Publishing
October 15, 2019
Signed Pre-order books --limited quantity
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by the Phaidon Press
Publishing October 16, 2019
20% off all pre-orders
for this title!
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by Carmen Maria Machado
Publishing
November 5, 2019
Signed pre-order books -- limited quantity!
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November 5, 2019
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by Andrea Beaty
Publishing
November 5, 2019
Free character patch with pre-order! (while supplies last)
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Dear Friends of Women & Children First,
We had a joyfully busy September, the highlight of which was hosting U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and hearing her speak about her beautiful new children's book, Just Ask!--a one-of-a-kind resource celebrating kids with disabilities.
Also, because of you, The Testaments, Margaret Atwood's hotly anticipated sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, is well on its way to being one of our bestsellers of the year. Your choice to support our feminist bookstore instead of a certain online retailer that has no respect for publication dates is critical to our survival. THANK YOU!
Halloween is just around the corner! What better way to get into the spirit of things than by joining us for the Chicago stop on Lindy West's highly anticipated book tour for The Witches Are Coming!
Last but not least, tickets for our
event on October 21st with best-selling author Ann Patchett are nearly sold out! BUY TICKETS HERE.
Happy fall reading!
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Wednesday, October 2 at 7 p.m.
After a decade as an education professor, Greg Michie decided to return to his teaching roots. He went back to the same Chicago neighborhood, the same public school, and the same grade level and subject he taught in the 1990s.
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OFF-SITE BOOK LAUNCH PARTY
Right After the Weather
Carol Anshaw
in conversation
with Jane Hamilton
Thursday, October 3 at 7 p.m.
at the Swedish American Museum
5211 N. Clark St.
The author of the New York Times bestseller Carry the One presents a new and long-awaited novel exploring what happens when untested people are put to a hard test and in its aftermath find themselves in a newly uncertain world.
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Degrees of Difficulty
Julie Justicz
in conversation with Alex Kotlowitz
Friday, October 4 at 7 p.m.
Love is the foundation of family, but at what cost? After Ben Novotny is born with a rare chromosomal disorder that produces profound mental disability and brain-racking seizures, his parents, Caroline and Perry, and their two other children are asked to give more than they can.
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The Grace Year
Kim Liggett
with special guests Samira Ahmed,
Jasmine Warga & Libba Bray
Monday, October 7 at 7 p.m.
In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. That's why they're banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage.
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False Bingo
Jac Jemc
in conversation with Laura Adamczyk
Wednesday, October 9 at 7 p.m.
In Jac Jemc's dislocating second story collection we watch as sinister forces--some supernatural, some of this earth, some real and some not--work their ways into the mundanity of everyday life.
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Driving in Cars with Homeless Men
Kate Wisel
in conversation with Maryse Meijer
Thursday, October 10 at 7 p.m.
Wisel's debut story collection is a love letter to women moving through violence, set in the streets and the bars, the old homes, the tiny apartments, and the landscape of a working-class Boston.
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Monday, October 14; Doors open at 7 p.m. Show starts at 7:30 p.m.
Sappho's Salon is a quarterly performance salon at Chicago's only feminist bookstore, featuring expressions of queerness, gender and feminism. We are kicking off this beautiful fall with a fantastic lineup of performers including multi-disciplinary, ultra-talented Alexia Jasmene and poet & theatre artist Teressa LaGamba. Open mic spots for trans, non-binary, and female performers will be available at the door.
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Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl
Jeannie Vanasco
in conversation with Megan Stielstra
Thursday, October 17 at 7 p.m.
Jeannie Vanasco has had the same nightmare since she was a teenager. She startles awake, saying his name. It is always about him: one of her closest high school friends, a boy named Mark. A boy who raped her. When her nightmares worsen, Jeannie decides--after fourteen years of silence--to reach out to Mark.
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Hanif Abdurraqib, Paige Lewis & Shire Erlichman
Friday, October 18 at 7 p.m.
Join us for our most highly anticipated poetry event of the year. Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals.
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Jennifer Pastiloff
in conversation with Megan Stielstra
Sunday, October 20 at 7 p.m.
Jen Pastiloff did not intend to become a yoga teacher, but when she was given the opportunity to host her own retreats, she left her thirteen-year waitressing job and said "yes," despite crippling fears of her inexperience and her own potential.
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The Dutch House
Ann Patchett
Monday, October 21 at 7 p.m.
BUY TICKETS HERE!
at Wilson Abbey
935 W. Wilson Ave.
The New York Times-bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder returns with her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go.
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BOOK TO FILM CONVERSATION
Bonnie Jo Campbell
in conversation with Filmmaker Rose Haroula
Tuesday, October 22 at 7 p.m.
Join us as we welcome Bonnie Jo Campbell back to Women & Children First to discuss the film adaptation of Once Upon a River with the film's director, singer-songwriter, Haroula Rose.
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Beth Kander
in conversation with Mary Anne Mohanraj
Wednesday, October 23 at 7 p.m.
How did we get here? That's the question that drives everyone and every story in Born in Syn, the thrilling sequel to Original Syn by local author Beth Kander.
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Jeanette Winterson
Thursday, October 24 at 7 p.m.
Jeanette Winterson's new novel, Frankissstein, is an audacious love story that weaves together disparate lives into an exploration of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and queer love.
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Elizabeth Earley
with special guests Dasha Kelly & Ada Cheng
Sunday, October 27 at 4 p.m.
Kalina, born in Bulgaria and now living in Boston, has always been a spiritual seeker. Her fourteen-year-old son, Marko, who has spina bifida and is partially paralyzed, shares her curiosity about larger metaphysical questions, but also has his own unique perspective on life: Marko perceives numbers as having colors, shapes, and textures--and they're linked to emotions: embarrassment, for example, is fourteen; satisfaction is sixty-seven.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Thursday, October 31 at 7 p.m.
By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into homeowners, they passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 and set about establishing policies to induce mortgage lenders and the real estate industry to treat Black homebuyers equally. The disaster that ensued revealed that racist exclusion had not been eradicated but rather transmuted into a new phenomenon of predatory inclusion.
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Pamela Newkirk & Mary Morten
Friday, November 1 at 7 p.m.
In an effort to ensure their organizations represent the racial and ethnic makeup of the United States, industry and foundation leaders have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to commission studies, launch training sessions, and hire consultants and diversity czars. But is it working?
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