Stephanie Clifford

STEPHANIE CLIFFORD

Friday, September 25

7 pm at The Book Stall

Stephanie Clifford talks about and signs Everybody Rise, her instant bestseller and highly acclaimed debut novel. It's the story of a young woman who plunges headlong into a glittering world of wealth and social prestige in Manhattan in 2006, just before the financial crisis. Said Vanity Fair of the novel: "Finally, a novel that admits 'making it' in New York isn't just a makeover away...Realistic examination of being young in New York -- albeit one that's as warm and witty as an Anne Hathaway fairy tale."  Ms. Clifford is an award-winning New York Times reporter who has covered business, media, and New York City. 

Click here for her website and the opportunity to both read and hear an excerpt from the book.

Bill Clegg

Tuesday, September 22

7 pm at The Book Stall

 

 We're proud to host New York   literary agent Bill Clegg with his novel Did You Ever Have a Family, one of the season's most highly acclaimed new titles. Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize and an instant bestseller, it is the story of June Reid, a woman who loses her daughter, her daughter's fiance, her ex-husband, and her boyfriend in a catastrophic fire on the eve of her daughter's wedding. In the wake of her loss, June finds a beautiful and surprising web of connections through shared heartbreak. 

Did You Ever Have a Family is Mr. Clegg's first novel. He is also the author of two bestselling memoirs, Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days.

Click here to read more about Mr. Clegg on his website and here for an insightful feature and interview published earlier this week in The Guardian. 

Christine Sneed

Monday, September 21

7 pm at The Book Stall

 

Evanston author  Christine Sneed  discusses Paris, He Said, her novel set in contemporary Paris, and focusing on a woman in her early 30s who accepts the invitation of an older man who offers her time and financial support to live with him in Paris and work as an artist. 

Ms. Sneed, who teaches writing in the MFA programs at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana, will be reading together with Chicago author Paulette Livers, author of the novel Cementville, set in a Kentucky town during the Vietnam War years.

Click here  for Ms. Sneed's website and here for Ms. Liver's. 

Laurie R. King

Friday, February 27

Luncheon, University Club of Chicago

 

 

Meet Laurie R. King, whose bestselling suspense novels feature the intrepid husband-and-wife duo Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes and are beloved by readers for her adept interplay of history and adventure. Now Ms. King is on to her latest, Dreaming Spies, with Russell and Holmes trying to take some time for themselves, only to be swept up in a case that leads them from the idyllic panoramas of Japan to Oxford's most revered institution, the Bodleian Library. 

Click here for the author's website.

For reservations or to order an autographed book, please call The Book Stall at 847 446-8880.

Nickolas Butler

NICKOLAS BUTLER

Wednesday, February 11

7 pm at the Glencoe Public Library

320 Park Ave.

 

Wisconsin author Nickolas Butler will read from his award-winning bestseller Shotgun Lovesongs, brand new in paperback. It's the story of a group of childhood friends from Little Wing, Wisconsin who have gone disparate ways as adults but remained close.  Click here for the author's website and here for a video of him talking about writing, Wisconsin winters, and the influence of a rock star friend. 

And for Nick's many fans, there is good news. His new book, a set of short stories called Beneath the Bonfire, is due out in May.

Bestseller Buzz

 

It's no coincidence that our top two fiction bestsellers this week reflect sales around the country. Our top-selling novel, The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, will be the No. 1 New York Times fiction bestseller next Sunday in its second week on the list. The Times recently caught up with Hawkins and dug into the background of her story. Click here to read the piece.

Another new favorite is Outline by another British novelist, Rachel Cusk. It's a story, set in Athens, of a writer teaching a course in creative writing and how her students' storytelling exercises take a look at the sorts of things that are hardest to speak about. Click here for a recent feature in The New Yorker and here for an review in The Guardian.

YA Novel from Lindsay Currie and Trisha Leaver

LINDSAY CURRIE and
TRISHA LEAVER

  Wednesday, November 12

4:30 pm at The Book Stall

Chicago author Lindsay Currie (left) and her co-author Trisha Leaver speak about their new young adult novel Creed. It's a psychological horror story of three teens who find themselves stranded in a mysterious backwoods town dominated by a charismatic and dangerous cult leader.

Click here to read more about it on Lindsay's website and here for Trisha's website.