Chicago Authors to Read from Notorious Banned Books at Censored! on October 2
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers Persepolis, a graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Lord of the Flies by William Golding Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie[caption id="attachment_18739" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Our stage at Public House Theatre. See you October 2.[/caption] Our readers are:
- Ignatius Valentine Aloysius teaches writing at Northwestern University and in the graduate Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, while pursuing a binary life as designer, songwriter, and lead guitarist for Reverend Ruin, a hard rock/metal band.
- Ada Cheng is a professor-turned-storyteller and performing artist.
- Paul Dailing of 1,001 Chicago Afternoons is a journalist and creator of the Chicago Corruption Walking Tour.
- Andrew Huff is the former editor and publisher of Gapers Block, and is the host of live lit series Tuesday Funk and 20x2 Chicago.
- Ruth Margraff is a New Dramatist, a Chicago Dramatist and a School of the Art Institute of Chicago writing professor, who has published Red Frogs & other plays, Previously Blue/Dah Teatar Sourcebook, SEVEN, Deadly She-Wolf..., Cafe Antarsia, Night Vision, Elektra Fugues and other writings (com).
- Juan Martinez, an assistant professor at Northwestern University, is the author of Best Worst American.
- Mary Anne Mohanraj wrote Bodies in Motion, The Stars Change, and eleven other titles, and she's an English professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
- Bill Savage, a card-carrying ACLU member, teaches American literature at Northwestern, and it all begins with a banned book, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
- Edwin C. Yohnka has been the Director of Communications and Public Policy for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois since 1999.
- Nancy S. Bishop is a theater critic and editor and publisher of Third Coast Review. She has been a card-carrying member of the ACLU since 1964.
- Emma Terhaar is editor of Third Coast Review’s Lit page and a dedicated cook and foodie.
- Julian Ramirez is calendar editor for Third Coast Review, as well as a music writer and photographer.
- Karin McKie, the evening’s curator and emcee, writes about theater and other arts for Third Coast Review.
Nancy S Bishop
Nancy S. Bishop is publisher and Stages editor of Third Coast Review. She’s a member of the American Theatre Critics Association and a 2014 Fellow of the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. You can read her personal writing on pop culture at nancybishopsjournal.com, and follow her on Twitter @nsbishop. She also writes about film, books, art, architecture and design.