Upcoming Author Events

Political Acts: The Emerging Arab-American Theater Movement April 21, 2008 at 7:00pm At Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art 220 E Chicago Ave An intimate dialogue with three of the nation’s leading Arab American playwrights, Betty Shamieh, Yussef El Guindi and Heather Raffo.

May 5, 2008 will be opening night for Heather Raffo's Nine Parts of Desire. The production will run May 18, 2008.

Please check Next Theatre's web-site for more information about times and tickets at www.mcachicago.org. Join Heather Raffo and the artistic staff for insightful talkbacks about Heather Raffo’s 9 Parts of Desire:

May 4, 2008 at 2pm led by Jason Loewith, Artistic Director of Next Theatre

May 8, 2008 moderated by MCA

May 9, 2008 moderated by MCA

May 11, 2008 at 2pm led by Jason Loewith, Artistic Director of Next Theatre

May 12, 2008 moderated by Next Theatre

May 14,2008 moderated by Next Theatre

May 15, 2008 moderated by Next Theatre

May 16, 2008 moderated by MCA

May 18, 2008 at 2pm moderated by Next Theatre


S.L. Wisenberg
The Sweetheart is In
April 25, 2008
On April 25, 2008, S.L. Wisenberg, author of Holocaust Girls: History, Memory & Other Obsessions and The Sweetheart Is In (Northwestern, 2001), will make a featured presentation at the University of Iowa's "Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine" conference. Please visit the conference website for more information.


Steven J. Harper
Straddling Worlds
April 26, 2008
On Saturday, April 26, join Steven J. Harper, author of Straddling Worlds, for a reading and discussion at the Annapolis Book Festival. The festival takes place at The Key School, at 534 Hillsmere Drive, Annapolis, Maryland.


John Rybicki
We Bed Down Into Water
April 29, 2008
Please join John Rybicki, author of We Bed Down into Water: Poems, for a reading at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. The address is 221 East 71st Street, and the event will take place at 7:00 p.m. in the Peruggi Room.


Josh Barkan
Blind Speed: A Novel
May 01, 2008
Please join Josh Barkan, author of Blind Speed: A Novel, for a series of readings this spring.

A reading a signing at Newtonville Books. The event takes place on May 1, 2008 at 7:00PM, at 296 Walnut St., Newton, MA 02460. Please call (617) 244-6619 for more information.

A reading and discussion at KGB in New York City. The event takes place on May 11, 2008 at 7:00PM, at 85 E 4th St. in New York. Click here for more information.

A reading and signing at Bluestockings Books. The event takes place on June 14, 2008 at 7:00PM, at 172 Allen Street, New York, New York 10002. Please call (212) 777-6028 for more information.

A reading and signing at Porter Square Books in Cambridge. The event takes place on July 17, 2008 at 7:00PM, at Porter Square Shopping Center, 25 White Street,Cambridge, MA 02140. Please call (617) 491-2220 for more information.


Meena Alexander
Quickly Changing River
May 01, 2008
Please join Meena Alexander, author of Quickly Changing River, for a reading in celebration of the release of WW Norton's Language for a New Century. The event takes place from 1-2:30 at the Segal Theater, CUNY Graduate Center: 365 Fifth Ave. New York, NY.


Meena Alexander
Quickly Changing River
May 02, 2008
Please join Meena Alexander, author of Quickly Changing River, for a reading at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, CT. The event takes place at 10:00 AM in Founders Hall. For more information, contact Ravi Shankar at shankarr@ccsu.edu.


Ana Puga
Finished From the Start
May 08, 2008
Come meet friends and colleagues at a cool Andersonville bookstore and watch a great actress, Mary Poole, read Ana Puga's translation of a Chilean monologue "Isabel Banished in Isabel," by Juan Radrigan, at Women and Children First, 5233 N. Clark St., Chicago on Thurs May 8, at 7pm.


Steven J. Harper
Straddling Worlds
June 07, 2008
Please join Steven J. Harper, author of Straddling Worlds, for a reading and discussion at the Printers Row Book Fair on June 7-8, 2008. More details to follow.


Steven J. Harper
Straddling Worlds
June 14, 2008
Join author Steven J. Harper for a discussion and book signing at the Rena Sternberg Gallery at 378 Park Avenue, Glencoe, IL on Saturday, June 14 at 4:00 PM.


Meena Alexander
Quickly Changing River
June 22, 2008
Please join Meena Alexander, author of Quickly Changing River, for a reading at the Parma Poetry Festival in Italy. For more information, contact contact Daniela Rossi at rossipoesia@email.it. The next day, Meena Alexander will give an additional reading in Florence, Italy. For details, contact contact Andrea Sirotti at andrea.sirotti@gmail.com.


Steven J. Harper
Straddling Worlds
September 23, 2008
Join Steven J. Harper, author of Straddling Worlds, for a discussion and book signing at the Naperville Public Library (Nichols Library Building), 200 W. Jefferson Avenue, Naperville, IL.