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Hello! Writing this in the afterglow of a busy holiday weekend, which started out on Saturday morning with our close friends S and A exchanging their lovely vows in our fiction room. The photo included does not do the magical moment justice.
Hard act to follow, but we think Maryse Meijer (The Seventh Mansion-FSG) fared extremely well as our guest bookseller on Small Business Saturday, giving intriguing and interesting book recommendations to those that chose to shop local this weekend. Thanks to Maryse for coming by and sharing her book love and for those of you that stopped by to help support Exile.
Looking for the absolute perfect holiday gift for that book lover in your life? We cannot think of a better way to impress than to give the gift of Lily King, author of one of our favorite books in 2020, Writers and Lovers. Lily will be in Chicago this coming Monday where she will be in conversation with our own Rebecca Makkai about Five Tuesdays in Winter: Stories, Lily's debut story collection. This event will take place in gorgeous Curtiss Hall here in The Fine Arts Building, just a few floors above Exile in Bookville. Come join us in what will be a magical evening. Seats are limited so reserve them early by clicking here!
Thank you, everyone, for your continued support. Come in and say hi and be sure to visit our website, Instagram, Spofity, Twitter, YouTube, and any other site we’re forgetting.
—Javier and Kristin
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We finally have our gift cards in! Click here to get one for yourself or that special reader in your life. We are happy to ship nationally!
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These titles and more are available through our website and we ship nationally!
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Join us TOMORROW at 1:00pm central to help celebrate the release of Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan. Claire will be in conversation with Caoilinn Hughes, author of The Wild Laughter. For more information and to register for free, click here. |
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Welcome back to our bi-monthly reading series featuring authors that call the UK and Ireland home, curated by the super-talented Caoilinn Hughes, author of The Wild Laughter. Join us virtually TOMORROW, Wednesday, December 1st at 1:00pm central (7:00pm in Ireland) to help celebrate Claire Keegan's new novel, Small Things Like These!
Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in Ireland. Her stories have won numerous awards and have been translated into more than twenty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was chosen as a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster, after winning the Davey Byrnes Award—then won the world’s richest prize for a story—was recently selected by The Times (UK) as one of the top fifty novels to be published in the twenty-first century. Her stories have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Granta, and Best American Stories. Keegan now holds the Briena Staunton Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Caoilinn Hughes' latest novel, The Wild Laughter, won the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award 2021. It was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards' Novel of the Year, the RTÉ Radio 1 Listener's Choice Award 2020, the Dalkey Literary Awards, and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her first novel Orchid & The Wasp (2018) won the Collyer Bristow Prize and was a finalist for four other prizes. Her short fiction won The Moth Short Story Prize, the Irish Book Awards' Story of the Year and an O.Henry Prize. She is the 2021 Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.
You can purchase their books through the respective links and each book comes with a signed bookplate!
This is administered as a free event through Eventrbrite. Should you wish to donate to Exile in Bookville’s cause there is an option on the registration page.
Click here to register for free!
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Looking for the perfect gift idea for that avid and discerning reader on your holiday shopping list? Well call off the dogs, because we have you covered. Exile in Bookville has the honor of hosting Lily King on Monday, December 6th at 7:00pm central to help celebrate her debut short story collection, Five Tuesdays in Winter. This very special event will be held IN PERSON and virtually simulcast just a few floors above Exile in beautiful Curtiss Hall, located on the 10th floor of the historic Fine Arts Building in downtown Chicago. Come for the breathtaking view, stay for the event! And if that wasn't enough, Lily will be in conversation with literary superstar and Exile VIP Rebecca Makkai!
Lily King is the award-winning author of five novels. Her most recent novel, Writers & Lovers, was published on March 3rd, 2020, and her first collection of short stories, Five Tuesdays in Winter, will be released on November 9, 2021. Her 2014 novel Euphoria won the Kirkus Award, The New England Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award. Euphoria was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2014 by The New York Times Book Review. It was included in TIME's Top 10 Fiction Books of 2014, as well as on Amazon, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, and Salon’s Best Books of 2014.
Rebecca Makkai is the Chicago-based author of the novels The Great Believers, The Hundred-Year House, and The Borrower, as well as the short story collection Music for Wartime. The Great Believers was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and received the ALA Carnegie Medal and the LA Times Book Prize, among other honors. Makkai is on the MFA faculties of Sierra Nevada College and Northwestern University, and she is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.
This is a ticketed event for both in person and virtual. Each ticket comes with a signed copy of Lily's new collection, Five Tuesdays in Winter. Please note, in person tickets are limited to 100 guests.
Click here to register.
Please note the following COVID protocols for those attending IN PERSON:
- Attendees must present a physical copy or a photo of their COVID-19 vaccine card along with a valid photo ID (state, government, or school ID); or
- Provide a time-stamped printout, photo, or email of a negative PCR test taken within 48 hours of the event or a negative Rapid Antigen Test taken within 36 hours of the event, along with a valid photo ID (state, government, or school ID).
- All persons must wear a mask for the duration of their time in the Fine Arts Building, regardless of vaccination status in accordance with our current COVID policies.
Event address:
410 S. Michigan Avenue
10th floor
Bookstore located on 2nd floor
Please email us at books@exileinbookville.com or phone us at (312)-753-3154 if you have any questions or concerns.
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Join us IN PERSON on December 7th at 7:00pm central to help celebrate Gioia Diliberto's new novel Coco at the Ritz! Gioia will be in conversation with Hedy Weiss. This very special event will be held IN PERSON and virtually simulcast just a few floors above Exile in beautiful Curtiss Hall, located on the 10th floor of the historic Fine Arts Building in downtown Chicago. Come for the breathtaking view, stay for the event!
Gioia Diliberto has written biographies of Jane Addams, Hadley Hemingway, Diane von Furstenberg, and Brenda Frazier, as well as the critically acclaimed novels I Am Madame X and The Collection. Her books, which center on the lives of women, have been translated into several languages. As a journalist, Gioia has contributed to many publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Smithsonian, and Vanity Fair. She was a visiting lecturer in writing at the Savannah College of Art and Design and DePaul and Northwestern universities. Gioia lives in Woodbury, CT.
Hedy Weiss was the Theater and Dance Critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1984 to 2017, reporting on local, national and international productions, as well as a wide range of other subjects including classical music, art and architecture, books, travel and international affairs. Since 2002 she also has been the theater critic for "Chicago Tonight” on WTTW/Channel 11. And she currently is the arts critic for WTTW’s website, and writes a monthly culture column for Jewish Chicago (The Jewish United Fund Magazine). Her commentary can be found in several documentaries, including a history of the Joffrey Ballet and a PBS documentary about Christopher Wheeldon's production of "The Nutcracker.” Weiss, who also has contributed to Dance Magazine, Pointe Magazine, Playbill and many other publications, served on the Pulitzer Prize for Drama three times, and is the recipient of awards from the Arts and Business Council of Chicago, the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee and the Sarah Siddons Society. She grew up in New York and studied ballet from the age of 7 at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School, the Joffrey Ballet School and with many distinguished teachers, and went on to perform with a number of contemporary dance companies. She earned a degree in English and Art History from Hunter College of the City University of New York. In 1980 she moved to Chicago to teach at the Theatre School of DePaul University. She has traveled widely and spent a year (1997) living in Berlin and traveling throughout the Balkans in the wake of the war in Bosnia.
Gioia will be signing books after the event!
There is no need to register for this free event if you are planning to attend in person. If you are attending virtually, please click here to register.
Please note the following COVID protocols for those attending IN PERSON:
- Attendees must present a physical copy or a photo of their COVID-19 vaccine card along with a valid photo ID (state, government, or school ID); or
- Provide a time-stamped printout, photo, or email of a negative PCR test taken within 48 hours of the event or a negative Rapid Antigen Test taken within 36 hours of the event, along with a valid photo ID (state, government, or school ID).
- All persons must wear a mask for the duration of their time in the Fine Arts Building, regardless of vaccination status in accordance with our current COVID policies.
Event address:
410 S. Michigan Avenue
10th floor
Bookstore located on 2nd floor
Please email us at books@exileinbookville.com or phone us at (312)-753-3154 if you have any questions or concerns.
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Beth Golay's Marginalia Podcast
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Beth helps us out from Wichita, Kansas, where she's the host of KMUW's Marginalia podcast, interviewing hundreds of authors since 2016.
Our own Beth Golay had the lucky pleasure of visiting with Max Greenfield about his book for reluctant readers. Here’s their conversation in the Marginalia podcast. Come for Schmidt, stay for the story! Click here to listen to this episode!
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We have been lucky to host so many incredible events. If you missed any event, go to our website or click here to view the recordings. All books are available for purchase and many come with signed bookplates!
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In the mood for an audio book? Get them above and help support Exile in Bookville!
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Love music as much as we do? Follow us on Spotify to listen to our store playlists!
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