Fatally Femme: a Mysterious Conversation

Join us in the after-words event space on September 19th at 6:30 pm for a book launch!

Kelsey Rae Dimberg will be discussing her new book, Snake Oil, with fellow author Layne Fargo.

This is a FREE event.

A razor-sharp literary thriller about three women vying for power at a wellness

start-up, where the cost of ambition might be deadly.

One woman’s elixir is another woman’s poison…

Kelsey Rae Dimberg is the author of Girl in the Rearview Mirror. She received an MFA from the

University of San Francisco and is a recipient of the Swarthout Award in Writing. She was the Editor-in-Chief of Arizona State University’s literary magazine, Lux. Before writing novels, she worked for startups like Google and Groupon.

Born in Seattle, she’s moved all over the West and Midwest. She lives in Chicago.

Layne Fargo writes dark, dramatic stories that support women’s wrongs.

She’s the author of the novels THE FAVORITES, THEY NEVER LEARN, and TEMPER, and co-author

of the #1 bestselling WIDOWS series. She lives in Chicago with her partner and their pets.

BANNED BOOKS CLUB

We have chosen the 6^th most challenged book in the United States in 2023,

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

In Nobel Prize winner Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.

Please join us on Tuesday, September 24^th at 6:30pm for our discussion.

Banned Books Week is September 22-28

September 22-28

Banned books week promotion:

Spend $50 or more and get your choice of an Enamel pin or a copy of the Constitution

Spend $75 or more get your choice of a “Bans off Our Books” zippered pouch or a Right to Read T-Shirt

Spend $100 or more you get a T-shirt, enamel pin and Constitution

*While Supplies Last

Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones

A live theatrical production in the after-words event space,

in honor of Banned Books Week

September 27th at 7:30 pm (Preview Performance)

September 28th at 7:30 pm

September 29th at 2:30 pm

October 4th at 7:30 pm

October 5th at 7:30 pm

October 6th at 2:30 pm

Tickets are pay-what-you-will, with an average donation of $25. By donating more, if you are able, you help offset the cost for those who can't afford to give. The preview performance on September 27th has a suggested donation of $10.

Get your tickets

HERE.

Ghostlight Ensemble will be performing a play that focuses on a 1950s Alabama librarian facing book-banning efforts from local community members and politicians against an illustrated children's book about a black bunny and white bunny who get married.

Ghostlight Ensemble Theatre Company is a Chicago-based 501c3 theatre company with a mission to ask questions that challenge the status quo through timeless stories, immersive environments and unconventional staging. Ghostlight Ensemble was founded in 2016 and has its own ensemble of artists, with a number of regular collaborators and partners throughout Chicago. Visit

www.ghostlightensemble.com for more information such as

production history,

ensemble bios, and more.