Chicago friends! Happy to see Dayspring is available at Women & Children First, PilsenCommunityBooks, Unabridged Bookstore, and Madison Street Books--just looking among my old favorites where I've dragged Anthony Oliveira on visits 📚

We had a blast last night chatting poetry, languages, what translation creates & the pitfalls of the platform formerly known as Twitter Susanna Lang Susan Harris Alta Price Kristen Renee Miller Women & Children First

Can't wait to celebrate my beloved genius friend Hilary Leichter and her new novel TERRACE STORY Women & Children First! Join us on 8/31 on zoom!

Read banned books and defend Black Studies!

Get your FREE ebook of Colin Kaepernick's OUR HISTORY HAS ALWAYS BEEN CONTRABAND: IN DEFENSE OF BLACK STUDIES coedited by Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholars Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Robin D. G. Kelley.

Free download ➡️ CaseyGrants.org/FreeBook.

Damnit, Megan Fernandes. Absolute master of tension & energy.

I profiled Samuel R. Delany—sci-fi pioneer, gay radical, literary genius—for The New Yorker’s fiction issue newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

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more book tour updates! i'll be doing a virtual event with the ICON SAMANTHA IRBY thanks to the babes Women & Children First on JULY 25 so get READY!

⚡ TONIGHT!⚡

Join Megan Fernandes author of ⚡ I Do Everything I'm Told Women & Children First!

with CM Burroughs, Lisa Hiton + Richie Hofmann

Tues 6/27 = 7pm CT

More info + register (but it's free to attend!): buff.ly/3PucWyD

We are SO excited about ⚔ Esme Symes-Smith 🏳️‍⚧️ Updates Only upcoming releases Sir Callie & the Champions of Helston (paperback) and Sir Callie & the Dragon's Roost!! Pre-order to get a signed bookplate and bookmark 😍 womenandchildrenfirst.com/search/site/si…

Attention Chicago!! Announcing our newest book group: Women & Children’s Banned Book Group will be reading banned books every month. Our first meeting is Monday July 10th at 7 pm, and we’re reading ALL BOYS AREN’T BLUE by George M Johnson Garçon. Come through & bring a friend!

This Tuesday evening, join us in celebrating Lindz “pre-order my picture book” Amer on the publication of their crucial new book RAINBOW PARENTING: YOUR GUIDE TO RAISING QUEER KIDS AND THEIR ALLIES.

Register for this wonderful (& free!) event here: eventbrite.com/e/in-store-rai…

The final night of the I AM ACE book tour at Women & Children First. With Ashabi Owagboriaye, @bruceowensgrimm and Adam Rhodes.

Absolutely joyful. No one can tell me that ace joy doesn’t exist. It was every person in that room. Thank you Chicago for such a warm welcome.

Hello Chicago!! Don’t miss your chance to hear Cleyvis Natera read from her new novel NERUDA ON THE PARK in conversation with the always wonderful Jessamine Chan. Register for this free event here: eventbrite.com/e/in-store-ner…

Signed some copies of Let This Radicalize You at Women & Children First and Book Cellar this afternoon. ❤️

CHICAGO! This Friday, May 26, I’ll be moderating Cleyvis Natera’s paperback launch for NERUDA ON THE PARK Women & Children First! Join us!

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First up, Women & Children First on June 12 (Maddalena Eve) with Jessamine Chan! Face masks mandatory, carnival masks optional.🎭

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