…is happening today and tomorrow, all around the intersection of Polk and Dearborn in the Loop. This morning, Tribune reporter Nina Metz moderated a panel called “Lit That Makes You Laugh” with Jason Porter and me discussing our new novels, Why Are You So Sad and O, Democracy! 

After that, I read in the Guild Literary Complex’s Brooksday event, a marathon reading of the poetry of the fabulous Gwendolyn Brooks. Here’s one of the readers in my round, Angela Narciso Torres, with a picture of Brooks looking on:

If you’ll be at the Fest tomorrow, be sure to stop by the RedEye stage at 11 am for “Locally Sourced” in which RedEye web editor Jordan Monroe Schultz will moderate a discussion about the stage of publishing with Victor David Giron of Curbside Splendr, Dough Seibold of Agate Publishing, Ian Morris of Fifth Star Press, Terry Gant of Third Coast Comics, and me representing Rose metal Press.