Mark your calendars: the 37th annual Printers Row Lit Fest is next weekend! This year’s two-day literary extravaganza in Chicago takes place on Saturday and Sunday, September 10 and 11. The fest features close to 150 presenters, And I’m one of them.
Date: Saturday, September 10
Time: 11am to 11:45 a.m.
Location: Grace Place (637 S. Dearborn St.), 2nd Floor
Program: Unlocking Memories and Uncovering StoriesChicago author Beth Finke interviews two writers from the memoir-writing classes she leads to find out how they managed to get their stories published as children’s books while sheltering in place during COVID.
Bindy Bitterman, author of children’s book “Skiddly Diddly Skat” and Sharon Kramer, author of children’s book “Time for Bubbe” in conversation with Chicago author Beth Finke
Bindy Bitterman and Sharon Kramer will sign books at Grace Place after the presentation — Printers Row Lit Fest is sponsoring a short book signing for them right there. Meanwhile, Seeing Eye dog Luna and I will hightail it to a table across the street in front of Sandmeyer’s, our favorite local bookstore to chat with passers-by and sign books for any and all interested bookworms.
Sandmeyer’s first honored me with a spot at their table way back when my 
children’s book “Safe and Sound” was published and Printer’s Row Lit Fest was still called Printer’s Row Book Fair. This year they’ll have copies of “Safe and Sound” available at our table for Luna and me to sign, along with my memoir “Long Time, No See” and my most recent book, “Writing Out Loud.”
September 10, 2022 (Saturday) noon to 1 p.m.
Booksigning
Chicago author Beth Finke
Sandmeyer’s Bookstore
714 S. Dearborn St.
Chicago, IL 60605
312-922-2104
It can make a person feel downright proud, living in a neighborhood that devotes an entire festival to books every year. If you’re free on Saturday, September 10, 2022 consider coming down to Printers Row and checking out the hood. And our 11 a.m. presentation there on September 10, too, of course.
Congratulations on your new book. Wish we could join you! We miss our old neighbors in Printers Row.
What a coincidence. We miss you guys, too.
Hello Beth, I am scheduled to do a session right after yours, same place, at noon, with Dan Chaon. Can’t promise to attend your event since I am still grimy trying to arrange transportation. Anybody in Urbana heading to Printers Row early on Saturday? If so, please let Beth know if I can ride along!
Thank you! I wouldn’t miss it! And yes, we are blessed to live in this neighborhood and to have SANDMEYER’S BOOKSTORE!!
I happen to be free but nowhere close to your ‘hood. I know it will be a smashing event!.
Miss you and Mike a bunch.
Oh, Benita, we miss you and Henry, too! Right now I’m thinking through which questions to ask Bindy and Sharon during the presentation. One I’ll ask Sharon for sure is how she came up with the fabulous idea to include a glossary of Yiddish words at the end of “Time for Bubbe.” I do hope you are right and we are a smash=if that happens, I’ll gush!working on figuring out now
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