GLIBA & ArtBar Present The Lit Show - Friday, August 3rd, 2018

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​Friday, August 3rd, 2018 from 6:00 PM - Midnight
Two-Brothers Roundhouse - 205 N Broadway, Aurora, IL 60505 

The GLIBA is excited to partner with ArtBar for a very special and unique event for GLIBA members to kick off the new season of ArtBar. ArtBar is an art collective based out of Aurora, IL that curates and exhibits a monthly themed pop-up art show. On Friday, August 3rd the GLIBA is co-hosting a literary themed art show entitled "The Lit Show". The event will be held at Two-Brothers Roundhouse in Aurora. If you are coming from Chicago the last stop on the BNSF train line literally drops you off at the door to the venue - which is awesome!

We have two events taking place that evening. A literary themed art exhibition will be showing the entire night and from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM live author readings will be taking place. The event is free to attend and open to all GLIBA members. No RSVP required. 

Featured Authors

Melanie Benjamin
Melanie Benjamin is the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling historical novels The Swans of Fifth Avenue, about Truman Capote and his society swans, and The Aviator's Wife, a novel about Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Her latest historical novel, The Girls in the Picture, is about the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends—screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford.​
Peter Coviello
Peter Coviello has written about Walt Whitman, Mormon polygamy, Steely Dan, the history of sexuality, queer children, American literature, stepparenthood, and Prince. This work has appeared in The Believer, Frieze, Avidly, Raritan, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, as well as in several books. In 2017-18, he was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He lives in Chicago.​
T Clutch Fleischmann​
T Clutch Fleischmann is the author of Syzygy, Beauty: An Essay (Sarabande Books) and Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through, forthcoming from Coffee House Press in Spring, 2019. They live in Chicago and are a Nonfiction Editor for DIAGRAM.
Jessica Hopper 
Jessica Hopper is a music critic and the author of The First Collection of Criticism By A Living Female Rock Critic and the forthcoming music memoir Night Moves (UT Press, September 2018). She was formerly the Editorial Director at MTV News, and an editor at Pitchfork and Rookie. Her essays have appeared in Best Music Writing for 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, and 2011. Her book The Girls' Guide to Rocking was named one of 2009's Notable Books For Young Readers by the American Library Association.
Siobhan Thompson
Siobhan Thompson is an indigenous writer from Wisconsin. She has an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been featured in Cloudthroat, Room Magazine, and Seafoam Mag. You can get in touch with her at siobhanroca@gmail.com.
Sung Yim
Sung Yim is a Korean writer and interdisciplinary artist. They are the author of What About the Rest of Your Life (Perfect Day Publishing) and Flowers Are for Pussies (Ghost City Press). Their work has appeared in Rattle, Kweli Journal, Contrary, The James Franco Review, The Wanderer, and Crab Fat Magazine.​
The Great Lakes Independent Bookselling Association is a non-profit trade organization dedicated to free speech and independent bookselling in our region.  Our mission is to promote independent bookselling, to strengthen partnerships among members in all aspects of the bookselling industry, and to promote the Great Lakes region as a vital marketplace. We have over 125 stores in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio. Our members are owners and booksellers of independently owned bookstores, publishers, sales representatives, distributors, authors, and librarians.
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