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Getting out in literary Chicago

I’ve long had my eye out for a site as useful for finding out about author readings as the Chicago Reader’s Early Warnings list is for notification of upcoming concerts. After all, what good is George Saunders’s reading in Chicago if you don’t know about it until it’s happened?

The Reader, I should note, provides a fairly exhaustive list of readings. However, the Reader’s list only covers readings for the coming week and, unlike Early Warnings, offers no opportunity to sign up for a weekly email.

Literago publishes notice of upcoming events on the All Lit Chicago calendar and previews the best of the upcoming week’s events via email. I signed up yesterday and received this week’s mailing early this morning.

Events that slip through the Literago and/or Reader dragnets won’t escape the events column of long-time Chicago lit blogger Golden Rule Jones. Giving notice of events as far as six months in advance, GRJ also publishes a list of author events that have come and gone, which provides sometimes cruel reminders of why it behooves readers to check the GRJ list at least once a week.

By the way, according to GRJ, George Saunders is reading at the University of Chicago at 4:30 p.m. on May 20th. The start time of that reading can be read as a kiss-off to the 9-to-5ers among us, but knowing about the reading and finding yourself unable to attend is somehow better than finding out that it happened without your knowledge.