Bodies in the Library: Who Done It at Litquake? in San Francisco, Calif. (July 16 at 6:00 p.m.) – This fundraiser for the Litquake Festival will be held at the Mechanics Institute Library and will feature several Bay area mystery writers in an intimate, mingle-worthy setting. Additionally, there will be a raffle whose prizes include signed copies of newly released mystery novels and the chance to become a character in a new mystery. Decatur Book Festival Fete in Decatur, Ga. (July 16, 7:00 p.m.) – This party, held at the Marcus Jewish Community Center, is an enormous gathering of book clubs in the Atlanta metro area. There will be wine, good, and local authors mingling and discussing the book club institution and how to make yours better.
Drunken! Careening! Writers! in New York, N.Y. (July 16, 7:00 p.m.) – Really, the event title alone should be enough to draw you to this event, but if anyone needs further description, Drunken! Careening! Writers! will be an evening of drinking, readings, and performances with “actors-slash-memoirists-
DePaul’s First Annual Summer Writing Conference in Chicago, Ill. (July 17-19) – This conference is open to writers of all ages and experience levels. It will be a weekend of craft classes, readings, panel discussions (such as “Publishing in Literary Magazines” and “Ethics in Memoir”), open mic sessions, and a keynote address by Achy Obejas in “Writing and Responsibility.”
Prayers in Code: Books of Hours from 16th-Century France in Baltimore, Md. (through July 19) – Books of Hours, devotional and ornamented books from the Middle Ages, were both instruments of prayer and status symbols. This exhibit, free and open to the public at the Walters Art Museum, displays some of the later, transitional, unusual examples of the genre and examines the relationship between the images and the prayer text.
--Emmaline Silverman
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