Printers Row highlights

Printers Row Lit Fest brings dozens of authors to that old strip of Dearborn Street, between Congress Parkway and Polk Street (and Polk, between Dearborn and Clark Street). Here are our picks to make your weekend more manageably nerdy.

Saturday 12
Barbara Ehrenreich
The sociologist/journalist talks about the danger of too much positive thinking in her book Bright-Sided. Noon.

Graphic Novels and Mysteries
100 Bullets creator Brian Azzarello, Web-comic artist Todd Allen and Crimespree co-publisher Jon Jordan talk genre and speech bubbles. 12:30pm.

Colson Whitehead
Novelist, critic and provocateur Whitehead reads from his latest, Sag Harbor. 2:15pm.

Jennifer Egan
The author of the great The Keep chats about her new novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad. 4pm.

Spaces Between Us release
Third World Press and the Gwendolyn Brooks Center celebrate the release of a new poetry anthology. 4pm.

Sunday 13
Daniel Clowes
The author of Ghost World and David Boring takes the early shift. Misanthropy never looked as pretty as it does in Clowes’s new graphic novel, Wilson. 11am.

Larry Doyle and Stephen McCauley
Simpsons writer Doyle follows up his smash debut I Love You, Beth Cooper with Go Mutants! He’ll sit down with McCauley (Insignificant Others). 12:30pm.

Eula Biss
The Northwestern prof, whose Notes from No Man’s Land made our Top 10 of 2009 list, talks about her essays. 12:30pm.

First Fiction
Claire Zulkey, Heather Sharfeddin, Emily Tedrowe and Iris Gomez talk about their debuts. 1:30pm.

Beyond Borders
Cristina Henriquez (The World In Half) moderates this panel, featuring Luis Alberto Urrea, Aaron Michael Morales and Achy Obejas. 3pm.

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