Getting Graphic At The Chicago Humanities Festival

“Graphic Novels and Identity”

     Sat 4/28, 1 PM, Studebaker Theater, 410 S. Michigan,         chicagohumanities.org, $20, $15 members, $10 students and teachers.     



      I teach in an MFA in Comics program now [at California College of the     Arts], and it is the worst thing when someone brand-new to the medium wants     to embark on a really big, long project. I tell people: It’s possible,     clearly, but you have to be a little crazy. Or a lot crazy.



     How much detail did you know about the history of Vietnam before         writing the book?     

“Bachelor Nation: Our Obsession With Reality TV”

     Sat 4/28, 3 PM, Studebaker Theater, 410 S. Michigan,         chicagohumanities.org, $20, $15 members, $10 students and teachers.     

“The Places of American Memory”

     Sun 4/29, 4 PM, Chicago Athletic Association, 12 S. Michigan,         chicagohumanities.org, $20, $15 members, $10 students and teachers.     



      “I always believed that the first step towards healing a deep wound is     acknowledgement,” Andrew Lichtenstein said in a 2012 speech.