The Conversation — an activist-minded literary series at Women & Children First Bookstore — continues this Thursday, February 22 from 7:30 to 9 p.m.
According to the organizers: “Kiki Petrosino, Sarah Manguso, Gina Frangello, and Kim Brooks will be hosting ‘The Conversation: The Body,’ at Women & Children First Bookstore; we’ll continue the conversation afterwards around the corner at Las Manos Gallery. Can’t wait to see you, think with you, talk with you, and drink with you!”
The Conversation is a free, no-ticket event, open to all, but donations will be collected at the afterparty to fund a local nonprofit. Click here for more event details.
The series is curated by Kim Brooks, Rebecca Makkai, Zoe Zolbrod, Jana-Maria Hartmann, and Aleksandar Hemon, with Sarah Hollenbeck of Women & Children First.
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Adam Morgan is a culture journalist and critic who lives near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He is the author of 'A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature' (December 9, 2025 from Simon & Schuster), and his writing has appeared in Esquire, WIRED, Scientific American, Inverse, The Paris Review, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. He is also the founding editor of Alderbrink, the Chicago Review of Books, the Southern Review of Books, and the Chicago Literary Archive.