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Dialogs: Talks About Tyranny Triumph at the Chicago Humanities Fest and ACLU Lunch

For “Lakeview Day 2025,” the Chicago Humanities Festival featured two tyranny experts, each for an hour-long interview followed by a brief Q&A, on April 27 at the Athenaeum Theatre. The […]

  • Karin McKie
  • May 6, 2025
    • Children's books , Dialogs , Events , Film & TV , Interviews , Lit , Live lit events

    Dialogs: “The Only Moral Is Run!” – R. L. Stine at the Chicago Humanities Festival

    This Guest Post was written by Holly Smith I entered the Music Box Theatre with anticipation. I was there to see the first episode of the Goosebumps TV show and […]

  • Guest Author
  • October 30, 2024
    • Children's books , Dialogs , Events , Fiction , Lit , Live lit events , Writing

    12 Years of Crafting Mad Science: Kate McKinnon Discusses Her New Book The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science

    By Guest Writer Holly Smith A Cosplayer Welcome As I sat down in the Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture to see a live interview with comedian Kate McKinnon about […]

  • Guest Author
  • October 9, 2024
    • Dialogs , Interviews , Lit , Live Lit , Nonfiction , Stages

    Dialogs: SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Shares Her New Memoir Lovely One at Chicago Humanities Festival

    Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson inaugurated the Chicago Humanities Festival’s autumn 2024 season in front of a packed, enthusiastic crowd at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance. In […]

  • Karin McKie
  • September 25, 2024
    • Dialogs , Events , Lit , Live Lit , Music , Nonfiction , Pop , Stages

    Dialogs: Reggie Watts Celebrates Glorious Black Nerds at the Old Town School

    Reggie Watts is far more than James Corden’s bandleader on the former The Late Late Show. He’s an innovative musician (keyboard, looping machine, beatboxer), dry comedian, wearer of cool geometric […]

  • Karin McKie
  • June 14, 2024
    • Dialogs , Events , Lit , Music , Nonfiction , Stages , Talk show

    Dialogs: Feminist Punk Kathleen Hanna at the Chicago Humanities Festival’s Illinois Tech Day

    Kathleen Hanna, founding Riot Grrrl, Bikini Kill frontwoman and the person who told Kurt Cobain that he smelled like teen spirit, is currently on tour to promote her memoir Rebel […]

  • Karin McKie
  • May 28, 2024
    • Dialogs , Events , Lit , Music , Nonfiction , Stages , Talk show

    Dialogs: Chicago Humanities Festival Explores Hip-Hop History and Black Punk Now

    Chicago musicians Chance the Rapper, Jennifer Hudson, plus legendary producer Quincy Jones, recently opened the renovated Ramova Theatre. The interior’s quaint cityscape-inside-a-building balconies and windows have been restored to usher […]

  • Karin McKie
  • May 11, 2024
    • Dialogs , Lit , Live lit events , Stages

    Dialogs: Percival Everett Talks About James, His New Book, About American Fiction, and Why He’s Finally Going on Tour

    Percival Everett has published 30-some books—mostly novels—over his career, but he has not been a well-known author in the literary zeitgeist. But the LA-based author has a large Chicago fan […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • March 30, 2024
    • Dialogs , Essays , Events , Interviews , Lit , Live Lit , Stages , Talk show

    Dialogs: The Fire This Time with Roxane Gay at the Chicago Humanities Festival

    The Chicago Humanities Festival hosted writer Roxane Gay, in conversation with writer Lindsay Hunter, at the University of Chicago’s Lab School. Like recent CHF speaker and fellow Black female author […]

  • Karin McKie
  • November 12, 2023
    • Dialogs , Events , Interviews , Lit , Live lit events , Nonfiction , Stages , Talk show

    Dialogs: Considering Contagion with Maddow and Schama at Chicago Humanities Festival Events

    This autumn’s Chicago Humanities Festival is chock-a-block with notable writers. That focus is normal for one of the Windy City’s most diverse and comprehensive cultural institutions, but especially true this […]

  • Karin McKie
  • November 7, 2023
    • Dialogs , Events , Fiction , Lit , Live lit events

    Dialogs: Zadie Smith’s New Historical Fiction The Fraud Plumbed at Chicago Humanities Festival Event

    Fiction is a “medium that must always allow itself…the possibility of expressing intimate and inconvenient truths,” acclaimed London-born author Zadie Smith once said. She recently stopped by Lincoln Park’s Francis […]

  • Karin McKie
  • September 28, 2023
    • Children's books , Dialogs , Fiction , Film & TV , Lit , Live lit events

    Kids Can Learn Sign Language, Storytelling and Teamwork with Sweet Animated Video Calvin Can’t Fly

    Jennifer Berne wrote the storybook Calvin Can’t Fly: The Story of a Bookworm Birdie in 2010, and her second cousin Sarah Michaelson directed and produced a video version last year. […]

  • Karin McKie
  • January 30, 2022
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