HYDE PARK — Chicago author Eve Ewing will come to Hyde Park to talk about her first book, “Electric Arches.”
Ewing will be at the Seminary Cooperative Bookstore, 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave., from 3-4:30 p.m. Oct. 8 to share her collection of essays, poems and art.
Ewing is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Chicago and an incoming professor at the School of Social Service Administration, where she is working about a book on Chicago’s 2013 school closures.
But her first book is much more personal. “Electric Arches” explores black girlhood and womanhood through everyday items like hair moisturizer or a spiral notebook and imagined scenarios with icons including blues singer Koko Taylor or basketball player LeBron James.
Ewing will talk about the book with poet and writer Hanif Abdurraqib.
The reading is free and open to the public.