Tonight on After Hours W/ Rick Kogan: Author/Photographers Mark Jacob, Rich Cahan, and Michael Williams join host Rick Kogan in the Skyline Studio to talk about their latest book: “Aftershock: The Human Toll of War: Haunting World War II Images by America’s Soldier Photographers. A small group of Army soldiers who witnessed Germany’s last push, the Battle of the Bulge, and unimaginable destruction in Germany captured it all. These soldier photographers are acclaimed for their war photographs, but their work showing […]

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Tonight on After Hours with Rick Kogan: Rev. John Cusick,  retired priest from the Archdiocese of Chicago, joins Rick Kogan to discuss Christmas, the spirituality of the season, and their favorite holiday childhood memories. Check out Fr. Cusick’s book “Never Be Ordinary: Wisdom from My Father.”  Find a copy on Amazon, Goodreads, and Corby Books.

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Tonight on After Hours: Author Joe Peterson joins host Rick Kogan in the Skyline Studios to talk about Peterson’s most recent book, “Ninety-Nine Bottles,” that tells a distillation of Joseph G. Peterson’s considerable talents, and a powerful and emotional meditation on the repetitions and variations of life–regular people searching for meaning in these sad and beautiful places. Plus, publisher Gerald Brennan talk about Tortoise Books (tortoisebooks.com) his publishing house found in 2012 after becoming frustrated with the traditional ways of […]

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American Writers Museum Director of Operations, Christopher Burrow joins Rick Kogan in the Skyline Studios to give details on AWM’s latest attractions on typewriters from some of the country’s most famous faces and Christopher’s wife singer Stephanie Browning Burrow and her music. Find out more about the American Writers Museum and their attractions at americanwritersmuseum.org. Keep the conversation going with Rick on Twitter! @RickKogan  

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Chicago photographer Lee Bey joins the conversation in the Skyline Studios to talk about his latest book “Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side.” Inspired by Bey’s 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial exhibition and his past childhood memories, “Southern Exposure” visits sixty sites, including lesser-known but important work by luminaries such as Jeanne Gang, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Eero Saarinen, as well as buildings by pioneering black architects such as Walter T. Bailey, John Moutoussamy, and Roger Margerum. Bey […]

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