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Louis Menand relates the origins of pragmatism from the Civil War to the Metaphysical Club to the 1894 Pullman Strike and Jane Addams’s Hull House in Chicago.
Louis Menand, Mona Simpson, and Emily Raboteau receive awards from the Chicago Tribune for The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, Off Keck Road, and “Bernie and Me,” respectively.
Sennett lectures on "the desire to do a job well for its own sake” aside from larger, less objective concerns. “Craftsmanship focuses…on the thing in itself,” he says.
In celebration of Donald Barthelme’s work, biographer Tracy Daugherty joins novelist Jonathan Lethem and Festival artistic director Lawrence Weschler in round-robin readings.