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…
Back of the Yards
Saturday, February 23, 2019
10-11:30 a.m.
The Newberry Library
Ruggles Hall
60 West Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610
The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, The Phantom Collective, Snickersnee Press, and the Newberry Library’s program in Chicago Studies, in collaboration with the Shakespeare Project of Chicago, present a morning devoted to playwright Kenneth Goodman (1883-1918) and his legacy. Florice Whyte Kovan will introduce Goodman and his importance to the…
2018 Induction Ceremony
Friday, November 16, 2018
6-9 p.m.
Cliff Dwellers
200 S. Michigan Ave.
Penthouse (22nd Floor)
Chicago, IL 60604
The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame will induct Henry Blake Fuller, Marita Bonner, and Robert Sengstacke Abbott as its newest class on Nov. 16. In large part because of Fuller's importance to the club, which got its name from his novel The Cliff-Dwellers, this event will be held at Cliff Dwellers. Though this is a private club, the event is open…
Armistice Day 2018: American Writers on War and Peace
Sunday, November 11, 2018
2-4 p.m.
American Writers Museum
180 N. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60601
Almost right from that moment--the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month--when the shooting stopped, American writers set out to capture the essence of their experiences with that war and that peace. War and peace, along with love and death, constitute the most enduring and important topics of literary exploration, here and across…
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