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  • Lisa Low Celebrates REPLICA

    • April 11 @ 7:30 PM
    • until 10:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608

    Join us as we welcome Lisa Low to the store for a launch celebration for her new collection Replica. Stand-up comedy, a celebrity non-apology, observations of racism, and the slipperiness of nostalgia underpin Replica. In poignant, witty poems, Lisa Low navigates the tensions of solidarity and hostility in white spaces as she sets out to write differently about race. “The... Read More

  • Molly Crabapple in conversation with Eman Abdelhadi: Here Where We Live is Our Country

    • April 23 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 9:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1531 W 18th St, Chicago, IL

    In conjunction with In These Times magazine, join us to celebrate the launch of Molly Crabapple's new book. Here Where We Live is Our Country is the first popular history telling the dramatic story of the Jewish Bund—a revolutionary movement from a vanished world—and its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division.... Read More

  • Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves with Stuart Schrader and Robert Vargas

    • May 13 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1531 W 18th St, Chicago, IL

    Join us as we welcome Stuart Schrader and Robert Vargas to the store for discussion of Schrader's new book Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, a history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable. “A... Read More

  • THE OVERSEER CLASS and HOW TO SELL A GENOCIDE with Steven W. Thrasher and Adam Johnson

    • May 21 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1531 W 18th St, Chicago, IL

    Join us as we welcome Steven W. Thrasher and Adam Johnson to the store for a conversation about Thrasher's The Overseer Class and Johnson's How to Sell a Genocide. About The Overseer Class: The author of the critically acclaimed The Viral Underclass (one of Kirkus Reviews best books of 2022) is back with The Overseer Class, which explores what happens when members of historically minoritized groups are selected for high-visibility positions of power within existing institutions—but under the conditions of a kind of Faustian bargain. Our... Read More