LINCOLN SQUARE — Listen up bookworms, Lincoln Square is the place to be Thursday.
Satisfy your appetite for words both printed and spoken at a pair of happily coincidental lit events that, if you add in a stop at a local pub, practically count as a festival.
First up: Old Town School of Folk Music, 4545 N. Lincoln Ave., will host the Chicago Reader and Open Books' annual Book Swap, 6-9 p.m.
Bring and take as many as 15 books, and by books, the organizers mean things people would actually want to read. So this is not the place to unload instructional manuals, encyclopedias or medical textbooks. Make sure books are clean and in overall good condition.
Then head to the Book Cellar, 4736-38 N. Lincoln Ave., for the Chicago Writers Conference "Under 30/Over 60" reading, 7 p.m.
Three writers under the age of 30 and three writers over the age of 60 will share cross-generational stories on the subject of "What I Wish I Knew."
Scheduled readers are:
- Samantha Hoffman, author of "What More Could You Wish For"
- Eric Charles May, award-winning author of "Bedrock Faith"
- Jim Padar, author of the blog and book "On Being a Cop"
- 826CHI volunteers Molly Sprayregen and Kayla Schwalbe
- Ted Wesenberg, MFA candidate at Northwestern University
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