The Oracle of Bronzeville: The Making of the Gwendolyn Brooks Monument
Saturday, June 1, 2019
2-4 p.m.
Carver 47 Cafe
Little Black Pearl
1060 E. 47th Street
Chicago, IL 60653
All students, parents, teachers and friends will be invited to view Rana Segal’s documentary Gwendolyn Brooks: The Oracle of Bronzeville at the Carver 47 Cafe. The 20-plus minute film captures the sculptor Margot McMahon throughout her process of researching, sculpting, casting, and installing the historic bronze portrait. Poetry readings…
Downtown Chicago Literary Tour
Saturday, May 11, 2019
10 a.m. to Noon
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington St.
Chicago, IL 60602
Downtown Chicago, with important cultural institutions like the Chicago Cultural Center, Art Institute, and the Fine Arts Building, features a wide array of historic literary sites. In this part of the city, where skyscrapers and other iconic buildings dot the landscape, authors have made deep footprints. Chicago’s finest authors, along with…
Fuller Award: Sara Paretsky
Thursday, May 9, 2019
5–7 p.m.
Newberry Library (Free Tickets Required)
60 W. Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610
On Thursday, May 9, author Sara Paretsky will receive the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame's Fuller Award for lifetime achievement at the Newberry Library. A host of speakers, including Lori Rader Day, Ann Christophersen, Dominick Abel, Donna Seaman, Neil Harris, Heather Ash, and Margaret Kinsman, will give short tributes highlighting Sara's…
Chicago’s Gold Coast Literary Walking Tour
Thursday, May 9, 2019
1:30-3:30 p.m.
Meet: Bughouse Square (across from Newberry Library)
End: Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street
In its heyday, when debates raged in Bughouse Square and ideas bounced about the Dil Picke Club, Chicago's Gold Coast featured a wide array of vibrant, joyous, and culturally significant literary spots. Even today, the Gold Coast is home to a variety of world class literary institutions, including the Poetry Foundation and Newberry Library. As…
Oak Park Literary Walking Tour
Sunday, May 5, 2019
2:30-4:30 p.m.
Meet at the Edgar Rice Burroughs House #2, 700 N. Linden Ave.
End: Jane Hamilton Girlhood Home, 226 S. Scoville Ave.
Oak Park, a sleepy conservative village when Ernest Hemingway was a child, has evolved in the last century to become a bedrock of liberal thought. This tour explores Oak Park's significance in literature for more than a century, and hits upon historical writers like Hemingway, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Vincent Starrett, as well as current stars…
Great Chicago Books Club: Jane Hamilton
Sunday, May 5, 2019
5:30-8 p.m.
Oak Park, Il
Private Home
TBA
Our Great Chicago Books Club on Sunday, May 5, will feature Jane Hamilton’s Disobedience, the author’s fourth novel, and one featuring a discovered affair in a Chicago household. The story explores a mother's affair from the perspecive of her 17-year-old son, and includes an array of fascinating storylines that take us inside a book…
Chicago’s Black Literary Renaissance Bus Tour
Saturday, May 4, 2019
10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Kenwood United Church of Christ
(across from Brooks Park and Gwendolyn Brooks statue)
4600-08 S. Greenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL 60653
Bus will load and unload here.
Part of the larger Chicago Black Renaissance, the literary movement started in the 1930s and continued to foster important African-America authors through the 1950s. On this bus tour, we’ll visit some of the foundational cultural institutions of the movement (George Cleveland Hall Branch of the Chicago Public Library, South Side Community Art…
Chicago By The Book: The Federal Writers Project’s Illinois Unit
Thursday, April 25, 2019
6-8 p.m.
City Lit Books
2523 N. Kedzie Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60647
The Caxton Club's newly-released Chicago By the Book maps out a history of our city through some of its most important literature. For this panel discussion, which includes moderator Donald G. Evans, author Sandi Wisenberg, Newberry Library's Director of Chicago Studies Liesl Olson, University of Chicago scholar Kenneth Warren, and…
From the Porch of Gwendolyn Brooks: Middle School Poetry Writing Workshop with Jerakah Greene
Saturday, March 23, 2019
10 a.m.-Noon
Carver 47 Cafe
Little Black Pearl
1060 E. 47th Street
Chicago, IL 60653
The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame invites middle school students to attend a poetry workshop led by Jerikah Greene at Little Black Pearl's Carver 47 Cafe. Inspired by the life and work of Gwendolyn Brooks, this workshop provides a unique opportunity for students to express themselves through poetry. It is the first in a series of three youth…
Great Chicago Books Club: Rosellen Brown
Sunday, March 10, 2019
5-7:30 p.m.
Hyde Park
Chicago, IL
Private Home
Our Great Chicago Books Club on Sunday, March 10, will feature Rosellen Brown’s The Lake on Fire, the author’s first fictional foray into the Chicago landscape after nearly a quarter century living in the city. We'll have the event at Ronne Hartfield’s beautiful Hyde Park condominium, not far from the setting of…
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