Literary listings

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Updated: November 13, 2011 2:24PM

NOV. 13

• Poetry Off the Shelf presents Attack of the Difficult Poems with Charles Bernstein, 1 p.m. at the Poetry Foundation, 61 W. Superior. Admission is $5; free for students and teachers with ID.

• Caitlin Kelly will discuss and sign “Malled: My Unintentional Career in Retail, 4:30 p.m. at Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark.

NOV. 14

• Rich Cahan and Michael Williams will discuss and sign copies of “Lost Panoramas: When Chicago Changed Its River and the Land Beyond,” 6-7:30 p.m. at DePaul University Art Museum, 905 W. Fullerton.

• Jennifer Chiaverini will discuss and sign “The Wedding Quilt,” 7 p.m. at Anderson’s Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville.

• Peter Smith will read from and sign “A Cavalcade of Lesser Horrors,” 7 p.m. at Cook Park Library, 413 N. Milwaukee Ave., Libertyville.

NOV. 15

• Patrick Carman will discuss and sign “Dark Eden,” 7 p.m. at Anderson’s Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville.

NOV. 16

• Buddy “Cake Boss” Valastro will discuss and sign “Baking With the Cake Boss,” noon at Anderson’s Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville.

• Maria Duenas will discuss and sign “The Time in Between,” 1 p.m. at the Lake Villa District Library, 1001 E. Grand Ave., Lake Villa.

• Gerald Nicosia will discuss “One and Only: The Untold Story of ‘On the Road’,” 2-3:30 p.m. at the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago, 801 S. Morgan.

• George Kalamaras will read from and discuss his poetry, 5:30 p.m. in Hokin Hall at Columbia College Chicago, 623 S. Wabash.

• Leanna Renee Hieber will discuss and sign “Darker Still: A Novel of Magic Most Foul,” 7 p.m. at Anderson’s Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville..

• Gerald Nicosia will discuss and sign “One and Only: The Untold Story of On the Road,” 7:30 p.m. at Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark.

NOV. 17

• Chris Van Allsburg will discuss and sign “The Chronicles of Harris Burdick,” 10 a.m. at the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State.

• Rich Cahan and Michael Williams will discuss and sign copies of “Lost Panoramas: When Chicago Changed Its River and the Land Beyond,” 5-7 p.m. at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, 2430 N. Cannon.

• Jeanne Gang and Henry Henderson will discuss and sign “Reverse Effect: Renewing Chicago’s Waterways,” 6 p.m. in the Cindy Pritzker Auditorium at the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State.

• Chris Van Allsburg and M.T. Anderson will discuss and sign “The Chronicles of Harris Burdick,” 7 p.m. at Anderson’s Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville.

• Christopher Kimball will discuss “The Cook’s Illustrated Cookbook,” 7 p.m. at Unity Temple, 875 Lake St., Oak Park. Admission is $10 (applicable to book purchase).

• Abrams YA Guy Night features: Michael Buckley (“NERDS,” “Sisters Grimm), Tom Angleberger (“The Strange Case of Origami Yoda,” “Horton Halfpott,” “Darth Vader Strikes Again”) and Jack Ferraiolo (“Sidekicks,” “The Big Splash”), 7 p.m. at Anderson’s Two Doors East, 111 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville.

• Lynn Powell will discuss and sign “Framing Innocence: A Mother’s Photographs, A Prosecutor’s Zeal, and a Small Town’s Response,” 7:30 p.m. at Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark.

NOV. 18

• Annie Barrows will discuss and sign “No News is Good News,” 7 p.m. at Anderson’s Two Doors East, 111 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville.

• Middle Grade Reader Author Panel featuring Matthew J. Kirby (“Icefall,” “The Clockwork Three”), Gordon Korman (“The 39 Clues,” “Framed”), Andrew Peters (“Ravenwood”), Trent Reedy (“Words in the Dust”) and Kenneth Oppel (“This Dark Endeavor”), 7 p.m. at Anderson’s Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville.

• Writers Parneshia Jones, Ellen Hagen and Kelly Norman Ellis discuss the city of New Orleans as a literary muse, 7:30 p.m. at Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark.

NOV. 19

• Launch part for the re-release of the classic Scandanavian children’s book “Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and Their New Skates,” 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Swedish American Museum, 5211 N. Clark.

• Bookmania, a Chicago Public Library event that celebrates children’s books and authors, will take place 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. all over the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State. The event is free.

• Sappho’s Salon features cin salach, C.C. Carter, Karen Lee Osborne and Carina Gia Farrero, 7:30 p.m. at Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark. Admission: $7-$10 includes food and wine.

NOV. 20

• Sara Weeks will read from and sign “Pie,” 2 p.m. at Anderson’s Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville.

• Lauren Myracle will read from and sign “Shine,” 2 p.m. at Anderson’s Two Doors East, 111 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville.

• Harriet Clare Wadeson will discuss and sign “Journaling Cancer in Words and Images: Caught in the Clutch of the Crab,” 4:30 p.m. at Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark.

NOV. 21

• Young Adult Readers authors panel features: David Leviathan (“Every You, Every Me”); Heather Brewer (“First Kill,” “Vladmir Tod” series); A.S. King (“Everybody Sees the Ants”); Jackie Kessler (“Rage,” “Hunger”); C.J. Hill (“Slayers”); Coe Booth (“Bronxwood”); and Jeff Hirsch (The Eleventh Plague”), 7 p.m. at Anderson’s Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville.

NOV. 26

• Jim Gill will perform songs from his new children’s songbook/CD “Jim Gill Presents Music Play for Folks of All Stripes,” 10 a.m. at Anderson’s Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson, Naperville; and 2 p.m. at Anderson’s, 5112 Main St., Downers Grove.

• LEGOs master builder Sean Kenney will offer a demonstration and sign copies of the LEGO book, 2 p.m. at Anderson’s Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville.

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