Great Chicago Books Club: Buttered Side Down
Sunday, March 25, 2018
6-8 p.m.
Humphrey House
Oak Park, IL 60304
Edna Ferber’s 1912 collection of a dozen short stories amounted to a coming out party for an author who would eventually win a Pulitzer Prize and generally be considered among the greatest and most prolific American authors of the 1920s and 30s. The New York Times, reviewing the collection on June 9, 1912, wrote, “Edna Ferber is the…
Comic Book Chicago: A Panel Discussion
Thursday, March 22, 2018
7-8 p.m.
Chicago Literacy Alliance
641 W. Lake Street
Suite #200
Chicago, IL 60661
Adam Morgan (publisher, Chicago Review of Books) leads a conversation about the Chicago comic book scene, including its evolution from the early strips to contemporary trends. He'll be joined by cultural anthropologist Stanford W. Carpenter (Rice University, Institute for Comic Studies, Cosmic Underground) and top comic book creators Michael…
Great Chicago Books Club: There Are No Children Here
Sunday, February 25, 2018
5:30-8 p.m.
Oak Park
The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame hosts author Alex Kotlowitz in a stunning, 1913 Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Oak Park home. We will discuss Alex’s classic true account of two brothers growing up in the Henry Horner Homes, There Are No Children Here. The book is widely acclaimed as one of the best narrative non-fiction books of the 20th…
Great Chicago Books Club: Saul Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift
Sunday, January 28, 2018
6-8 p.m.
Humphrey House
Oak Park, IL 60304
The Great Chicago Books Club begins the 2018 schedule with Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift, which won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 1976, the same year the author received the Nobel Prize in Literature. The novel's narrator, Charles Citrine, a commercially successful writer, explores his relationship with mentor Von Humboldt Fleischer,…
Chasing Wilder in Chicago
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
5 p.m.
Ruggles Hall (60 W. Walton Street, Chicago)
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary: Thornton Wilder's The Eighth Day Thornton Wilder (Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, Class of 2013) persists as one of the great American playwrights of the 20th century. Our Town is so universally known and revered that it tends to overshadow Wilder's other accomplishments, which were many and varied. The Eighth…
Margaret Ayer Barnes to Gain Induction to CLHOF
Thursday, October 5, 2017
7 to 8:15 p.m.
Volumes Bookcafé
1474 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
Richard Reeder, Amy Danzer, Lisa Wagner and Valya Dudycz Lupescu will be among the presenters as the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame inducts Margaret Ayer Barnes into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame on Oct. 5 at Volumes Bookcafe. The ceremony starts at 7 p.m. and ends a little after eight. Chicago born and bred, Barnes (April 8, 1886 –…
Fenton Johnson Induction Ceremony at Poetry Foundation, Sept. 14
Thursday, September 14, 2017
7 P.M.
The Poetry Foundation
61 W. Superior St.
Chicago, IL 60654
Fenton Johnson (May 7, 1888-September 17, 1958) will be inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Sept. 14 at the Poetry Foundation. The ceremony, which features a lineup including Alexander Jacobs, Richard Guzman, Vida Cross, and Rebirth Poetry Ensemble, begins at seven p.m. Michele Jolivette, Johnson’s great grand niece, will accept…
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Punch Line: The Evolution of Chicago Comics into an Art Form
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
5:30 to 7 p.m.
Chicago Literacy Alliance
641 W. Lake Street, Suite #200, Chicago, IL
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…
At the Typewriter: Roger Ebert Induction Ceremony at AWM
Saturday, August 19, 2017
6-9 p.m.
American Writers Museum, 180 N. Michigan Ave., 2nd Floor
At the Typewriter Ebert Joins Chicago's Finest Authors When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I enjoy and am expert at, deliberate thought falls aside and it is all just THERE. I think of the next word no more than the composer thinks of…
Eugene Field Induction Ceremony at Poetry Foundation
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
7 p.m.
Poetry Foundation
61 W. Superior St.
Chicago, IL
Eugene Field will be inducted into the seventh class of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame on Wednesday, June 21, at the Poetry Foundation (61 W. Superior St., Chicago). The induction ceremony begins at 7 p.m.; doors open at 6:30 p.m. Paul Durica, Laurie Lawlor, Thomas Joyce and June Sawyers will speak about the Field’s contributions to…
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