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Every year around this time people in the book business start peering at the sky and crossing their fingers–because the Printers Row Book Fair carries on rain or shine. Now in its 23rd year, this celebration of literature and book arts (run by the Chicago Tribune since 2002) draws 150 or so new, used, and antiquarian booksellers, not to mention a respectable flock of authors with new projects to plug, to the South Loop to hawk their wares.
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The University Center’s private dining room is the venue for many higher profile events. Saturday it hosts, among others: Wall Street Journal reporter Jonathan Eig, author of Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season (10:30 AM); Defending the Damned author Kevin Davis (11:30 AM); novelist and visual artist Audrey Niffenegger, discussing her latest “novel in pictures,” The Adventuress, a sequel to 2005’s The Three Incestuous Sisters (1:30 PM); and Michigan-based Ander Monson–who gave a wickedly mesmerizing reading from his short story collection Other Electricities at a Bookslut Reading Series event last year–talking here with Bookslut editor Jessa Crispin about his new essay collection, Neck Deep (3:30 PM).
