Great Chicago Books Club: Don De Grazia’s American Skin
Sunday, October 28, 2018
6-8:30 p.m.
Private Home
Lincoln Park, Chicago
It's the twentieth anniversary of Don De Grazia's American Skin, and the novel is at least as relevant today as when it first came out. The story of teenager Alex Verdi's move from a downstate farmhouse to the big city harkens back to great Chicago realists like Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, and Floyd Dell. The gritty 80s…
Trivia Night and Silent Auction Fundraiser
Saturday, September 15, 2018
5-8 p.m.
1700 Building
1700 E. 56th Street
Penthouse
Chicago, IL 60637
On Sept. 15, 2018, the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame will host a fundraiser in the fabulous penthouse party room of the 1700 Building. All proceeds from the evening will go to fund programming throughout the year, including our end-of-the-year induction ceremony and our next Fuller Award for lifetime achievement. The main activities…
GCBC: Author Fundraiser Dinner with Scott Turow
Sunday, August 26, 2018
6-8:30 p.m.
Private Residence
Evanston, IL
GCBC Hosts Scott Turow for Fundraising Dinner and Discussion Great Chicago Books Club will feature Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent on Sunday, Aug. 26 in Evanston. This event will help raise funds for the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s continued programming throughout the course of this year, including our upcoming Fuller Award for…
14th Annual Northwestern Summer Writers’ Conference
Saturday, August 11, 2018
4:45 p.m.
Northwestern University—Chicago Campus
Wieboldt Hall
339 E. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611
CLHOF Reading at NU Summer Writers’ Conference The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame will help to orchestrate a reading to conclude the 14th annual Northwestern University Summer Writers’ Conference, held at Wiebolt Hall (339 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago). CLHOF Founding Executive Director Donald G. Evans will host a lineup of Rebecca Makkai,…
Pilsen Literary Walking Tour
Sunday, August 5, 2018
11:00 to 1:00 pm
Meet and end at the 18th Street Pink Line Stop
Stuart Dybek, Ana Castillo, and Sandra Cisneros are among the legendary living Chicago writers with strong associations to the Pilsen neighborhood. On this tour we'll place their lives and literature, along with other notable figures, in the context of this vibrant neighborhood. Stops will include the model for the fictional home on Mango…
Great Chicago Books Club: Liesl Olson’s Chicago Renaissance
Sunday, June 24, 2018
6-8:30 p.m.
Ravenswood Manor
Private Home
Contact Don Evans at dgevans@chicagoliteraryhof.org for more details.
The modernist movement, outside academia, is often considered elitist; artists like Gertrude Stein downright baffling; and Chicago’s place in it mostly architectural. Liesl Olson’s cultural history of that period makes a clear and insightful case that Chicago was essential to the movement, and that the literature arising from it both…
Great Chicago Books Club: Maud Martha
Sunday, May 27, 2018
6-8 p.m.
Oak Park
Email Don Evans at dgevans@chicagoliteraryhof.org for details.
Maud Martha (1958) is Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks’ only work of adult fiction. The 34 vignettes tell the story of a girl’s maturation from girlhood to adolescence to womanhood in 1930s and 1940s black Chicago. Maud is the novella’s protagonist, and through her eyes we see the extraordinary circumstances and people…
Fuller Award Ceremony: Angela Jackson
Thursday, May 17, 2018
7-9 p.m.
Poetry Foundation
61 W. Superior St.
Chicago, IL 60654
Free and open to the public.
Refreshments served.
Angela Jackson, the author of highly-praised novels, a biography, poetry, and plays, will be honored with a Fuller Award for lifetime achievement at the landmark Poetry Foundation buildingon May 17, from 7-9 p.m. Jackson, who grew up on Chicago’s South Side, has been a consistent contributor to our literary culture since her debut…
Great Chicago Books Club: Hardball
Sunday, April 22, 2018
5:30-8 p.m.
Oak Park
For details, contact email Don Evans at dgevans@chicagoliteraryhof.org.
The Great Chicago Books Club is ecstatic to announce that Sara Paretsky will be our special guest as we host an evening of food, drink, and literary discussion centered around her classic Chicago novel Hardball, in which Chicago private investigator V.I. Warshawski takes on a cold case that might possibly prove her cherished father to have been a…
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Punch Line: The Evolution of the Chicago Comics into an Art Form
Thursday, April 19, 2018
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Chicago Literacy Alliance
641 W. Lake Street
Suite #200
Chicago, IL 60661
Newspaper comics started as a hook to attract readers—a quick laugh on the way to becoming fish or gift wrap, something to catch the coffee grinds. But over the past century, the throw-away funnies have evolved into a major art form. Chicago has been at the center of the movement. When Claire Briggs created A. Piker Clerk for the Chicago…
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