Off-site Book Launch: RIVER OF BOOKS by Donna Seaman

Please join us for a celebratory evening with Donna Seaman for the release of River of Books: A Life in Reading. This event will be hosted at the Swedish American Museum (5211 N Clark St) and Donna will be joined in conversation by Women & Children First co-founder Linda Bubon. This event is part of our 45th Anniversary programming, as we celebrate 45 years of W&CF.

A memoir of reading and working with books by the renowned Booklist editor.
With the infectious curiosity of an inveterate bibliophile and the prose of a fine stylist, Donna Seaman charts the course of her early reading years in a book-by-book chronicle of the significance books have held in her life. River of Books recounts Seaman’s journey in becoming an editor for Booklist, a reviewer, an author, and a literary citizen, and lays bare how she nourished both body and soul in working with books. Seaman makes palpable the power and self-recognition that she discovered in a life dedicated to reading.

Donna Seaman is the adult books editor at Booklist, a member of the Content Leadership Team for the American Writers Museum, and a recipient of the Louis Shore Award for excellence in book reviewing, the James Friend Memorial Award for Literary Criticism, and the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award. Seaman has written for the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and other publications. She has been a writer-in-residence for Columbia College Chicago and has taught at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. Seaman created the anthology In Our Nature: Stories of Wildness, her author interviews are collected in Writers on the Air: Conversations about Books, and she is the author of Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists.

Linda Bubon is co-founder of Women & Children First Bookstore. She and her business partner, Ann Christophersen, opened the bookstore in1979 as a way to contribute to the international feminist movement and to join with and support those in Chicago working to further the rights and well-being of women & children. Women & Children First has been honored with awards from Chicago Now, the ACLU’s Roger Baldwin Foundation, Bailiwick Reportory Theatre, and The Lesbian Community Cancer Project, among others.

Accessibility: This event will be hosted at the Swedish American Museum, which is a wheelchair accessible space. Masks are required. If you have questions, access needs, or need ASL-interpretation, please email [email protected] no later than 14 days before the event.

Host or Publisher Women & Children First