The 11th annual Columbia College literary festival offers readings, signings, and panels with novelists and Columbia faculty, this year under the theme “Cities of Words.” Events run Sunday, March 11, through Friday, March 16. All are free. For more info call 312-344-7611 or see colum.edu/storyweek.
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Alumni Reading Todd Dills reads from his debut novel, Sons of the Rapture, which “explores the surly restlessness of youth, the repressed anger of a still-divided country, and the confused joy of perpetual drunkenness,” and Marcus Sakey from his debut thriller, The Blade Itself, set in a Chicago uneasily strung between gritty old neighborhoods and gleaming new loft condos. Smart Bar, 3730 N. Clark, 21+. 7 PM
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Undergraduate Open Mike Reading Columbia College Ludington Bldg., 8th fl., 1104 S. Wabash. 11 AM
Conversation With the Authors Novelists Salman Rushdie (Midnight’s Children) and Jonathan Lethem (You Don’t Love Me Yet) discuss “Process and Place.” Harold Washington Library Center, auditorium, 400 S. State. 3 PM
Literary Rock and Roll Readings by Chris Abani, Geling Yan, and Jonathan Lethem and music by Mr. Greenweedz. Martyrs’, 3855 N. Lincoln. 6 PM
