What’s Going On
Readings
May 21, 7 p.m.
Brookline, Massachusetts, Brookline Booksmith
James Tate
Tate presents works from his latest collection, The Ghost Soldiers.
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June 7 - 8, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Chicago, Dearborn Street
Printers Row Book Fair
The Chicago Tribune sponsors the largest free literary fair in the midwest. Events include book sales, signings, trivia contests, and lectures from such authors as Jeff Shaara, Austen Burroughs and S.E. Hinton.
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June 12, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia, Central Library
Ian Frazier
Frazier, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and winner of the Thurber Prize for Humour, will be reading the title work from ‘Lamentations of the Father’. This essay, which originally appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, was recognized last year as one of the best pieces in the magazine’s 150-year history.
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June 18, 8 p.m.
San Francisco, Herbst Theatre
Salman Rushdie: In Conversation
The esteemed writer and Granta contributor will discuss his newest novel, The Enchantress of Florence, due out in June.
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Performance art
May 25, 7:30 p.m.
New York, Anthology Film Archives
Lu Chunsheng, History of Chemistry 2
Lu Chunsheng, a Shanghai-based filmmaker, is known for exploring familiar but remote worlds in his highly experimental projects. History of Chemistry fuses performance art with the old-fashioned mystery movie. The title, according to Lu, derives from the idea of change: ‘Modern chemistry is derived from ancient western alchemy. Pacific Asia today is like a big alchemist’s workshop.’ This screening is the third part of Anthology’s ‘Focus Shanghai’ series.
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