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Story Week

My Literago weekly e-mail arrived this morning and announced the beginning of Story Week, a series of events hosted by the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College. Highlights include a reading tonight by Aimee Bender, a very fine writer whose novel The Girl in the Flammable Skirt I enjoyed very much. Story Week culminates in the Literary Rock & Roll extravaganza, to be held on Thursday night at Metro. Among the evening’s performers are two youngish, acclaimed authors, Junot Diaz and ZZ Packer, and Chicago punk marching band Mucca Pazza.

Every Story Week event is free and open to the public.

Chicago is a good book town. There are people who read here. But because of our geography (read “distance from New York”), it takes serious money and long-range planning to gather multiple literary lights here at the same time. The Tribune’s Printer’s Row Book Fair does a wonderful job in the summer. Story Week, its springtime counterpart, is establishing its own reputation for consistent quality. Take advantage, Chicago readers. This kind of access to the people who write the books you love—or perhaps the next book you’ll love—is hard to come by.