(Chronological order, updated periodically)

We like to spread the word about other literary experiences around town, the country or the internet. Some of them are from dear partners of ours, some from other folks you might be interested in:

• The kickoff event of the fall 2010 One Book, One Chicago programming from the Chicago Public Library: Dwight McBride, Dean at U of IL - Chicago and Professor of African American Studies and Gender and Women's Studies, in a lecture on Toni Morrison as a novelist and leading American intellectual; also includes a brief performance from the opera Margaret Garner, for which Ms. Morrison wrote the libretto and free copies of A Mercy for (this year's One Book) to the first 385 attendees. Tuesday, September 7, 6:00pm, Cindy Pritzker Auditorium, Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State St. - FREE with reservation - visit www.chicagopubliclibrary.org for more info

• Exhibit of author portraits by Swedish visual artist Carl Kohler (1919-2006) at University of Chicago’s Joseph Regenstein Library, September 17 - late December 2010; the portraits have been exhibited around the world, including at the Brooklyn Public Central Library, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library and August Strindberg Museum & Stockholm Public Library in Stockholm. Learn more about Kohler at http://www.carlkohler.com/

• Have any anonymous advice? Then contribute to the Dead Advice project, inspired by Thomas Lynch's "The Undertaking." It's your chance to finish the sentence "Now that I'm dead, I want to tell you a few things..." www.deadadvice.com

• Enjoy a poem from Guild Board member Parneshia Jones about the perils of girlhood bra-shopping (part of an NPR story on poetry's power with young people): http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126119314

• Read a Newsweek article about how a 2010 Palabra Pura featured poet, Gabriela Jauregui, and other Mexican women writers are "storming the border"

• If you happen to be in NYC on Nov. 4, Four Way Books is having its fall book launch.  Four Way is not only one of the few great independent bookstores left in NY, but we have it on good authority (Guild Board member and former New Yorker Vesna Neskow) that its launch parties are always attended by lots of interesting and fun literary people. So join them if you’re in NY in November (or visit anytime) and show them how Chicago literary folks party. Thursday, Nov. 4, 7-9 pm, McNally Jackson Book Store, 52 Prince St. (between Mulberry and Lafayette in Soho)

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