Chicago Public Radio’s Steve Edwards Moderates Conversation Featuring Audrey Niffenegger and Aleksandar Hemon September 14
Granata Magazine and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Host Acclaimed Authors to Celebrate Special Chicago Issue
Chicago Public Radio’s Steve Edwards Moderates Conversation Featuring Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife) and Aleksandar Hemon (The Lazarus Project) Sept. 14.
Audience members are invited to join panelists and some of the other 28 contributors to Granta’s special Chicago issue for a reception after the discussion.
Admission is free but reservations are required by contacting Emily Long, emily.long@cityofchicago.org, 312-742-0821. For more information about the event, call 312-744-7097.
Who: Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Granata, The Magazine Of New Writing
What: London-based Granta magazine’s week-long celebration of its all-Chicago issue kicks off with Audrey Niffenegger, author of the best-selling The Time Traveler’s Wife, now a major motion picture, and Aleksandar Hemon, MacArthur fellow and National Book Award Finalist for The Lazarus Project, discussing how artists and writers from around the world represent Chicago in their work. Chicago Public Radio’s Steve Edwards moderates.
Granta magazine’s special Chicago issue features new essays, stories, art and poems about Chicago by 28 acclaimed authors and artists including Sandra Cisneros, Don DeLillo, Stuart Dybek, Aleksandar Hemon, Alex Kotlowitz, George Saunders, Elaine Showalter, Wole Soyinka and Chris Ware.
This is only the second time in its history that Granta, founded 120 years ago at Cambridge University, has devoted an entire issue to a single city.
When: Monday, September 14, 6 p.m.
Where: Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington Street
Preston Bradley Hall
MEDIA CONTACT and RSVP:
Joyce Rowe, 312-742-2036
joyce.rowe@cityofchicago.org
