Thank you for all of the questions, thank you so much to all of you for being here. [applause] and now more from the printers row lit fest in chicago. Thanks so much for joining us today. This session is entitled Neil Steinberg, every goddamn day t highly selective, definitely opinionated, and alternatingly humorous and heartbreaking Historical Tour of chicago. In conversation with sherman thomas. oh, yeah, lets give it up. [applause] neils book will be available for sale and sunk at the book sales and signing tent on your map is marked n. N. , nancy nancy, or neil neil. Neil steinberg is a daily news columnist for the chicago suntimes where he iss bent on staff since 1987. His books include out of the wreck i rise, and you were never in chicago. Both p published by the universy of Chicago Press. Our moderate today, thomas, is a fascinating blend of modern historian, cultural worker and public employee. A lifelong resident of chicagos south side, he attended calamine high butut graduat
Offers programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. Keep watching for more here on cspan2 and watch any of our past programs online a book tv. Org. Hello and welcome to grapevine, harlem renaissance, 19th annual book library festival. I am benedict carton, with africanamerican studies, we appreciate your attendance today. The festival runs through saturday, october 14th. For all the most uptodate information on this festival and all the other programs throughout the year, visit ballstothebooks. All one word. This is funded through donations was one way to help us through this kind of programming is friends of fall for the book. To learn more visit please visit their website again. We ask that you please remember to silence your cell phones and thank you for filling out a survey and improve the festival of the future. Thank you to our main sponsor in africanamerican studies so we are pleased to have here Marylouise Patterson and Jeffrey Stewart, two writers who examine key figur
Lyricism, critique and politics, she has illuminated political cultural and literature and cultivated the arts. Getting that medal, getting the National Medal of the arts meant personally for me something. It was quite an achievement and one that i felt almost well, really humbled to receive. But it also meant that arts mattered and to have them recognized at that level of the country of government was a profound act, not just for me but for every young person in this country who ever wanted to express themselves whether with paint or with words or with song or with their bodies and dance. I wrote as a hobby. I didnt know it could be a profession at all because i had had no role models. Id never paet novelist or a poet. All these people were names in a book and the only one i really had a visual of was shakespeare and he was long gone. I really thought that i was going to be either a doctor, a lawyer or a teacher. I didnt feel that pressure that you will become a doctor, lawyer or a te
Lyricism, critique and politics, she has illuminated political cultural and literature and cultivated the arts. Getting that medal, getting the National Medal of the arts meant personally for me something. It was quite an achievement and one that i felt almost well, really humbled to receive. But it also meant that arts mattered and to have them recognized at that level of the country of government was a profound act, not just for me but for every young person in this country who ever wanted to express themselves whether with paint or with words or with song or with their bodies and dance. I wrote as a hobby. I didnt know it could be a profession at all because i had had no role models. Id never paet novelist or a poet. All these people were names in a book and the only one i really had a visual of was shakespeare and he was long gone. I really thought that i was going to be either a doctor, a lawyer or a teacher. I didnt feel that pressure that you will become a doctor, lawyer or a te
She has illuminated political cultural and literature and cultivated the arts. Getting that medal, getting the National Medal of the arts meant personally for me something. It was quite an achievement and one that i felt almost well, really humbled to receive. But it also meant that arts mattered and to have them recognized at that level of the country of government was a profound act, not just for me but for every young person in this country who ever wanted to express themselves whether with paint or with words or with song or with their bodies and dance. I wrote as a hobby. I didnt know it could be a profession at all because i had had no role models. Id never paet novelist or a poet. All these people were names in a book and the only one i really had a visual of was shakespeare and he was long gone. I really thought that i was going to be either a doctor, a lawyer or a teacher. I didnt feel that pressure that you will become a doctor, lawyer or a teacher. It was just in the air. An