In this Summer of Covid, we find ourselves struggling to maintain a healthy body and mind while also entertaining ourselves. Parents, especially, want to engage their children with activities outside the television screen. Our new…  read more

The Newberry Library again celebrates the history of the radical free speech space that was Washington Square Park, a.k.a. Bughouse Square, with a day of soapboxing, heckling, and honoring our marketplace of ideas. The Chicago Literary…  read more

The story of the Chicago blues runs so deep as to be almost mythical. From Junior Wells to Buddy Guy, the Maxwell Street Market to Kingston Mines, from Chess Records to Alligator Records, blues has…  read more

The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame will again make camp under the Poetry Foundation's tent at one of our country's finest book weekends, Printers Row Lit Fest. Headlining this year's fest is Harold Washington…  read more

Since our inaugural ceremony in 2010, the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame has annually inducted a class of new authors. In this, our 10th season, we will induct and honor four authors into the pantheon…  read more

Reginald Gibbons's prolific writing career has included publication of ten full-length poetry collections; a short story collection and a novel; numerous essays, reviews, columns, and translations; and as editor a myriad of anthologies. His…  read more

The Great Chicago Books Club kicks off its 2020 calendar with another.....great Chicago book. Kathleen Rooney's O, Democracy! is not only a contemporary classic, but it touches on so many themes percolating in…  read more

A 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, Luis Alberto Urrea is the critically acclaimed and best-selling author of 17 books, winning numerous awards for his…  read more

Edward Hopper's painting Nighthawks, which hangs in the Art Institute, has been the subject of much literary exploration. Stuart Dybek and Joyce Carol Oates are among the authors who've used…  read more

For nearly a century and a half, Chicago has been the setting for important literary works and the setting that enables authors to get that work done. On this four-hour bus tour, which includes stops…  read more

Timuel D. Black, at 101 years old, continues to add to his legacy as a remarkable Civil Rights activist, oral historian, educator, and writer. His 2019 memoir, Sacred Ground: The Chicago Streets of…  read more