Part of supporting your local literary scene, is to attend events sponsored by community groups, venues and establishments in your neighborhood, and what better way to support your community then attend a free reading at the Harold Washington Library! If you attend one of these readings and would like to “report” on the experience, please submit a short writing to Cooler or post on our Writer’s Lounge!
SANDRA CISNEROS
Tuesday, April 14 at 6 p.m.
Harold Washington Library Center
Cindy Pritzker Auditorium
400 South State Street
Join Sandra Cisneros, author of this spring’s selection for One Book, One Chicago, The House on Mango Street, as she reflects on her prestigious career 25 years after the initial publication of this groundbreaking work. A book signing will follow, with books available for purchase from Barbara’s Bookstore.
WRITERS ON THE RECORD WITH VICTORIA LAUTMAN
IN CONVERSATION WITH JAY MCINERNEY
Thursday, April 16 at 6 p.m.
Harold Washington Library Center
Cindy Pritzker Auditorium
400 South State Street
Jay McInerney’s 25 year literary trajectory has chronicled the manic social flux of contemporary society, starting with his seminal Bright Lights, Big City in 1984. Now there’s How It Ended, a collection of 22 stories, old and new, that trace McInerney’s career while capturing a mélange of adult situations.
Writers on the Record with Victoria Lautman is a partnership with the Chicago Public Library and 98.7WFMT Radio. The interview will be broadcast on Sunday, April 19th at 12:00 p.m.
TERRY SAVAGE
Monday, April 20 at noon.
Harold Washington Library Center
Cindy Pritzker Auditorium
400 South State Street
Terry Savage, popular author and award winning financial journalist, discusses what everyone should know about financial and retirement planning. Planners from the Financial Planning Association of Illinois will provide one-on-one planning sessions after her presentation.
DONNA SEAMAN
Wednesday, April 22 at 6 p.m.
Harold Washington Library Center
CPL Chicago Authors Room, 7th Floor
400 South State Street
Celebrate Earth Day with Donna Seaman, Booklist associate editor, Open Books host and WBEZ 848 book contributor, as she discusses, reads from and signs the book, Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape. This book brings together 45 poets and writers to create more than 850 original definitions for words that describe our lands and waters. The writers, including Barbara Kingsolver, Luis Alberto Urrea, Jon Krakauer, Charles Frazier and Antonya Nelson, draw from careful research as well as on their own distinctive personal and regional diversity to portray in vivid prose the striking complexity of the landscapes we inhabit, from Missouri’s woody draws to Virginia’s runs, from California’s bajadas to Alaska’s pingos and Hawaii’s shield volcanoes.
