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about lit circle skip to main content calendar bookstores articles get our newsletter about what we are lit circle is a guide to the literary life happening around you we track author events book clubs readings signings and festivals across your area and point you toward the independent bookstores and articles worth your time why we built it there is an extraordinary literary culture around us full of world class authors fiercely independent booksellers and communities of readers who show up for each other but events were scattered across dozens of websites newsletters and social feeds we built lit circle to put it all in one place we re starting in chicago and aim to spread nationwide how we work we re an independent project not affiliated with any bookstore publisher or literary organization we don t sell tickets or take referral fees we find the good stuff check the details and make it easy for you to show up if you run an event or bookstore and want to be listed we d love to hear from you meet the team rebecca george founder editor she her rebecca has long been an active member of chicago s independent bookstore community and the independent bookstore community at large she is a former educator and writer turned bookstore owner and advocate she was the co owner of volumes bookcafe and bookstore in chicago for ten years and a founding member of the chicagoland independent bookstore alliance rebecca has hosted and produced thousands of events from open mics to auditorium level author signings she loves reading all genres but especially loves any book that talks about time travel she lives in chicago with a meddling cat who makes an exceptional assistant patrick dimichele co founder pixel pusher he him patrick is a long time chicagoan with an abiding love of books bicycles basketball and the big lebowski his professional background spans product strategy experience design and platform management over his career patrick has led ambitious digital initiatives in industries spanning education financial services healthcare insurance life sciences and retail at work he serves as a member of the leadership team at a tech consultancy called txi in regular life patrick and his partner spend much of their free time traveling seeing live music and traveling to see live music matt reich all things technology he him matt is a man of many talents and few words about privacy terms support contact login 2026 lit circle