Fall Literary Season
If you listened to Hello Beautiful! on WBEZ this weekend, you heard me give a little preview of literary events coming up this fall. This was my fourth segment for the show; I previously did pieces on Irene Zabytko, Ward Just, and Allen Seager (all audio links).
Between now and mid-December really is the busiest time of the year for literary events in Chicago. I added another twenty or so items to my upcoming events list yesterday, when the Chicago Humanities Festival released its full schedule. Among the writers coming to town over the next 90 days are:
Maya Angelou
Louis de Bernieres
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Russell Banks
E. L. Doctorow
Roddy Doyle
James Fenton
Alan Furst
Neal Gaiman
William Gibson
Louise Glück
Andrew Sean Greer
Robert Hass
Shirley Hazzard
Edward P Jones
Ward Just
William Kennedy
Maxine Hong Kingston
Galway Kinnell
David Lodge
Alice McDermott
Sue Miller
Pankaj Mishra
Bharati Mukherjee
Paul Muldoon
Joyce Carol Oates
Nuala O’Faolain
Sharon Olds
CynthiaOzick
Ann Patchett
Luis Rodriguez
Marjane Satrapi
Roger Shattuck
Norman Sherry
Paul Theroux
August Wilson
Tom Wolfe
Time to begin your planning …
ADDITION 9/1: The archive recording of my radio segment on this topic just went up today.
