Facehooked, Brooklyn Arts Press, Maxwell St. and more coming up at Powell's

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This monthly email newsletter highlights our favorite events, sales, and blog posts. All events take place at 1218 S. Halsted unless otherwise noted. For more information, email litevents@powellschicago.com

Saturday, November 1st at 2pm
Facehooked, with Chicago-based clinical psychologist Dr. Suzana E. Flores, explores the effect of Facebook and social media on self-perception and relationships to others and the non-virtual world.

November 12th, 7pm
Gnostic Unified Liberation Front: An evening with Lane Williams

An evening of short stories, mystical research results, and glyph-based zines with local author Lane Williams, including excerpts from his top-secret decade-in-the-making novel This is a World.

Sunday, November 2nd at 4pm & Tuesday November 4th at 7pm
Witness the intoxicatingly diverse vibrancy of the Old Maxwell Street with a slide presentation from Lori Grove, co-author of Chicago's Maxwell Street featuring historic photographs.

Join us every Friday at 10 am in University Village for Children's Readings!

Friday, November 7th at 7pm
Readings from new releases from Brooklyn Arts Press. John F. Buckley will read from Yankee Broadcast Network ("Marshall McLuhan meets Barney Fife") Julia Cohen from Collateral Light ("Here phrase is music and memory is inexhaustible"), and Joseph P. Wood from Broken Cage, ("poems...so beautiful they make you want to rip your face off").

The third Friday each month at 6pm, Bad Grammar Theater brings readings from Chicago's established and rising stars in horro, sci-fi, noir, and fantasy.

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