AWM Author Talks

This week, we chat with Katherine Schweit, the former head of the FBI’s active shooter program and author of the recent book Stop the Killing: How to End the Mass Shooting Crisis. Schweit is interviewed by Chad Riley, a member of the Chicago Council of the AWM. This conversation originally took place March 31, 2022 and was recorded live at the American Writers Museum.

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This week, AWM Program Director Allison Sansone chats with editor Jennifer Minton Quigley about her recent anthology Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century. They are joined by contributing writers Bindu Bansinath, Aleksandar Hemon, and Laura Lippman. This conversation originally took place March 31, 2021 and was recorded live via Zoom.

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This week, AWM Program Director Allison Sansone chats with bestselling author Elizabeth Berg about her recent memoir I’ll Be Seeing You, a beautifully written, poignant love story of caring for her parents in their final years. This conversation originally took place November 16th, 2020 and was recorded live via Zoom.

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This week, Daniel Ellsberg, the man who released the Pentagon Papers, discusses his book The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner with journalist Rick Perlstein. This conversation originally took place December 7th, 2017 and was recorded live at the American Writers Museum.

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This week, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Deborah Blum discusses her recent book The Poison Squad, which tells the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change. This conversation originally took place August 15, 2019 and was recorded live at the American Writers Museum.

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This week, we talk about science writing! Anthropologist and author Sarah Parcak discusses her book Archaeology From Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past with Adler Planetarium astronomer and artist Lucianne Walkowicz. This conversation originally took place August 13th, 2019 and was recorded live at the American Writers Museum.

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This week, AWM President Carey Cranston chats with writer and educator Deborah Nelson Linck, author of the forthcoming illustrated biography Pauli Murray: Shouting for the Rights of All People. This conversation originally took place February 22nd, 2022 and was recorded live via Zoom.

This program is presented in conjunction with the launch of our newest online exhibit titled, Pauli Murray: Survival With Dignity.

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This week, writer-director Rebecca Hall discusses her recent Netflix film Passing with Northwestern University professor Dr. Ivy Wilson. This conversation originally took place October 21st, 2021 and was recorded live at the American Writers Museum.

Quick programming note: we enter this conversation in progress.

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This week, writers Nancy Johnson and Catherine Adel West discuss Johnson’s hit debut novel The Kindest Lie. This conversation originally took place February 8th, 2022 and was recorded live at the American Writers Museum.

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This week, AWM Program Director Allison Sansone chats with author Hanif Abdurraqib and illustrator Ashley Evans about their new children’s book Sing, Aretha, Sing!, a striking picture book biography about the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. This conversation originally took place February 2nd, 2022 and was recorded live via Zoom.

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