Nothing Compares to You: What Sinead O’Connor Means to Us

Monday July 28 
Aguasol Presents…
A Gman Author Series Event
Nothing Compares to You: What Sinead O’Connor Means to Us
Editors Martha Bayne, Sonya Huber and writers Zoe Zolbrod, Megan Stielstra  and Gina Frangello in Conversation with Jill Hopkins
Live Music by:  Marydee Reynolds *  Amalea Tshilds * Jane Roberts * Eiren Caffall * Nora O’Connor * Jeanine O’Toole * Julie Pomerleau * L Wyatt
Free with RSVP / 21 & over / Doors: 6:30pm / Show: 7:30pm

Martha Bayne is a Chicago-based writer and editor, serving as the senior acquisitions editor for regional trade books at the University of Illinois Press. She has edited three anthologies on Chicago and the Midwest for Belt Publishing, and her work has appeared in outlets such as the Chicago Reader, The Baffler, Eater, and PRI/The World.  

She is also a senior editor with South Side Weekly, a member of Theater Oobleck’s artistic ensemble, and the founder of the community meal project Soup & Bread. Her Soup & Bread Cookbook is now in its second edition. Find her on Instagram (@marthabayne) and Bluesky (@marthabayne.bsky.social).

Join editors Martha Bayne and Sonya Huber and writers Zoe Zolbrod, Gina Frangello, and Megan Stielstra along with Gman Author Series’ director Jill Hopkins in conversation about the book, the life of Sinead O’Connor, and a special live performance of some of her songs, as well as a new song written about the singer herself.

What Sinead O’Connor Means to Us will be available for purchase at the event c/o Women & Children First, Chicago’s feminist bookstore since 1979. Book-signing to follow the conversation and performance.