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Bookmarks Fri Aug 19 2011
Bookmarks
- Weekend Poetry Slam events! At the Chicago Public Library on Saturday and the Green Mill on Sunday.
- If you don't feel like slammin', why not check out Myopic's poetry series tomorrow?
- Tonight! Caprice Crane reads from her new novel With a Little Luck at the Book Cellar
- Tonight! Good Evening Reading Series with poets Steven James Dvorak, Joseph Mains and Ashley Toliver at Three Peas Art Lounge.
- Saturday! Chicago Book and Paper Fair featuring rare and collectible books and ephemera at Plumbers Hall.
- Saturday! Shirley Baugher signs Hidden History of Old Town at the Lincoln Park Barnes and Noble.
- Sunday! Final Beach Poets of the summer featuring the Bob & Bob Show and Donna Pecore.
- Sunday! Orange Alert Reading Series at The Whistler featuring Keith Ecker, Brett E. Gallagher, A. D Jameson and Steven Roggenbuck.
- You get a book, you get a book, you get a book...500,000 people get the first printing of The Oprah Winfrey Show: Reflections on an American Legacy. Read more here.
- Want to read like a president? The Daily Beast has a list of what Obama has read since 2008.
- Rod Blagojevich has yet to be sentenced, but the jury has already returned their verdict on his book, The Governor. Jacket Copy reports that you can now buy the hardcover new on Amazon for $2.80.