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Events Wed Oct 08 2014
The Reader's Dilemma: Which Thursday Night Event to Attend
This Thursday, Oct. 9, is one of the more challenging nights of competing literary events in recent memory, as Michael Chabon, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Steven Pinker will all be appearing in different parts of the city.
Coates, a senior editor and writer for The Atlantic and journalist-in-residence at City University of New York, wrote the controversial story "The Case for Reparations," which examined the cultural and economic issues surrounding violence in Chicago's mostly black neighborhoods. He'll discuss the article and the issue as a whole at 5pm in Roosevelt University's 10th floor library, 430 S. Michigan Ave.
At 6pm, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Chabon helps launch the One Book, One Chicago program with a conversation about his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Finally, Pinker, a New York Times best-selling author, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, will read from and discuss his new book, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
All three events are free and open to the public.
Rita / October 8, 2014 2:59 PM
If you miss Ta-Nehisi Coates at Roosevelt, he'll be at the South Side's DuSable Museum on Nov. 13.