CELEBRATE AGATE PUBLISHING

Join Newcity and Agate Publishing for BOOKED at Barbara's

Thursday, June 23
7:00 PM

UIC- 1218 S. Halsted at Roosevelt, Chicago
312-413-2665

Come celebrate Agate Publishing with a night of readings from Agate authors, the live music of Starcandy, food provided by Tomato Head Pizza Kitchen and complimentary beverages. June is Agate month at Barbara's- featuring titles from this new local press all month long with discounts and special displays. Stop in to learn more about Chicago's vibrant publishing world with appearances from Agate authors Andrew Winston, Cheryl Mayberry McKissack, Kathleen Ameche, Dan Lefkovitz and Sam Wilkin.

PARTICIPATING AUTHORS:

Andrew Winston, Looped
Looped tells the separate stories of a diverse group of Chicagoans‹black, brown, and white, gay, straight, and bi‹as their lives unfold in diverging and (occasionally) converging ways over the course of the year 2000. The narrative is spun out of short episodes that progress week by week, each brief chapter detailing a day, an event, or a moment in the lives of a given set of the novel¹s primary characters. Ambitious, sprawling, engrossing, multifaceted, insightful, and addictively readable, Looped explodes with a life and vitality that mirrors the multicultural reality of twenty-first century Chicago, where the families that sustain us are more likely to be those we¹ve created than those we¹re born to.

Andrew Winston was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, and now lives in Chicago. He is past editor-in-chief and fiction editor of Chicago Review. This is his first novel.

Cheryl Mayberry McKissack, The Nia Guide for Black Women: Achieving Career Success on Your Terms
The first in a new series of empowerment guides from NiaOnline.com, the leading online community site for black women. A practical guide to developing leadership skills, pursuing workplace success and effectiveness, climbing the corporate ladder, and achieving empowerment for today¹s African American working woman. Full of useful, up-to-the minute data, helpful tips and suggestions, and personal stories from a broad range of successful black women.

Cheryl Mayberry McKissack is the founder and CEO of Nia Enterprises.

Kathleen Ameche, The Woman Road Warrior
The Woman Road Warrior teaches women the expert art of business travel and gives them the tools they need to become experts themselves. Based on the author's own twenty-plus years of travel experience, and the experiences of other women who are frequent business travelers, this book is designed to equip businesswomen of all ages and experience levels with the know-how they need to make business travel less daunting, less exhausting, and less of a hassle.

Kathleen Ameche is a senior executive with West Monroe Partners and formerly worked as chief information officer of the Tribune Company, and has done extensive business travel for more than twenty years. She is the founder and president of the Ameche Group, a company that focuses on being a trusted friend, ambassador, and champion for working women. She lives in Chicago with her family.

Dan Lefkovitz and Sam Wilkin, The Kimchi Matters: Global Business and Local Politics in a Crisis-Driven World
Executives already know they need to watch local political dynamics when investing in developing countries, but here's a powerful exposition of what to look for...this may be the first book for business people that presents the case with such clarity and insight.
The Harvard Business Review

Dan Lefkovitz and Sam Wilkin, former analysts at Marvin Zonis & Associates, have published articles on international political risk in numerous journals. Marvin Zonis is also a co-author of the book but is unable to attend.

No admission charge/21+ to drink

Free. Reading. Discussing. Signing.

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