GLIBA & ArtBar Present The Lit Show
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. Check back for more info and additional authors announced soon!
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. Check back for more info and additional authors announced soon!
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. |
Jessica Hopper
Jessica Hopper is a music and culture critic based in Chicago. Her work has been included in Best Music Writing 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010. 2011 & Pitchfork. Her book, The Girls Guide to Rocking, was named one of 2009’s Notable Books for Young Readers by the American Library Association. Her latest book is The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic. |
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. |
Full list of authors coming soon...