Find bookish love (or good conversation) at DATE & DASH.

Enjoy wine and books while you meet interesting singles and see if sparks fly!

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Start time: Saturday, August 02, 2008 At 05:00 PM
Url: http://dateanddash.com/

See what Loving Frank by Nancy Horan is all about at our monthly Book Cellar Book Group.

Pick up your copy today!

Start time: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 At 07:00 PM
Contact Info : 773.293.BOOK

Test your smarts with other lovers of books when Shimer College hosts
GREAT BOOKS TRIVIA NIGHT

Start time: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 At 08:30 PM

Check out Elaine Szewczyk's brand new novel, I'm With Stupid, as she reads and takes questions at The Book Cellar.

Start time: Thursday, August 07, 2008 At 07:00 PM
Url: http://www.stupidnovel.com/about.htm

The Colleen Payne-Nabors event I Did it my way ... And It Worked!: Redefining the Art of Entrepreneurship
has been
CANCELLED
by the author.

Start time: Friday, August 08, 2008 At 06:00 PM

CLASSICS BOOK GROUP meets to discuss Aldous Huxley's utopian novel, Brave New World.

Start time: Sunday, August 10, 2008 At 03:00 PM

If you want to be a good witch, come discuss L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz with the GAPER'S BLOCK BOOK GROUP!

Check them out online! http://www.gapersblock.com/

Start time: Monday, August 11, 2008 At 07:00 PM
Url: http://www.gapersblock.com/

Frances DePontes Peebles comes to The Book Cellar to share her new novel, The Seamstress.

Come pick up your copy today!

Start time: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 At 07:00 PM
Url: http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060738877/The_Seamstress/index.aspx

Help celebrate the release of Marcus Sakey 's exciting new crime thriller, Good People.

www.marcussakey.com/

Start time: Thursday, August 14, 2008 At 07:00 PM
Url: http://www.marcussakey.com/

Come see a reading of local author and playwright Joe Meno's Lady Into Fox!

Lady into Fox is adapated from the David Garnett novel...

...An absurd, magical piece in which a husband finds his wife suddenly transformed into a fox!


Greasy Joan Announces premiere of Contemporary Classics Series:

Three writers were selected from a competitive field to work on new adaptations of classics that will culminate in a reading series August 2008.

Joe Meno is a Chicago area author and playwright whose works have been performed at Rhinofest and Redmoon.

His fiction has been published in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and his novel The Boy Detective Fails was named a Best Book of 2006 by the Chicago Tribune, Kirkus and Booklist, and was adapted for the stage by the House Theatre.

Start time: Sunday, August 17, 2008 At 02:00 PM
Url: http://www.greasyjoan.org/index.php

Discuss the novel Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar with the Desi Lit book group.

Start time: Monday, August 18, 2008 At 07:30 PM

LOCAL AUTHOR NIGHT!

Join us in celebrating local authors JoAnn Fastoff, Katie Wadell, Clinton Sivert, and June Sawyers as they read from their novels, and enjoy wine and dinner at The Book Cellar!

Start time: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 At 07:00 PM

Join Anna Winger as she talks about her novel, This Must Be the Place.

Start time: Thursday, August 21, 2008 At 07:00 PM

Discuss Memoirs of a Sex Industry Survivor by Anne Bissell with CAASE Book Group.

Start time: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 At 06:00 PM

FIXX Reading Series
presents
Featherproof Mini-Books Night!

Mini-reads from authors of Featherproof's mini-book collection featuring
Lindsay Hunter,
Caroline Picard,
and
Scott Stealey.

Start time: Thursday, August 28, 2008 At 08:00 PM
Url: http://www.featherproof.com/Mambo/