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Terra Foundation Lecture on American Art

Jennifer Greenhill, who teaches the history of American art at the University of Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Arts, will discuss artists who walked the line between levity and gravity.

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Terra Foundation Lecture on American Art

Jennifer Greenhill, who teaches the history of American art at the University of Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Arts, will discuss artists who walked the line between levity and gravity.

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Kay Ryan and Billy Collins: Poets in Conversation

The current and former US poets laureate join in conversation to close the 2009 Chicago Humanities Festival.

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Terra Foundation Lecture on American Art

Jennifer Greenhill, who teaches the history of American art at the University of Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Arts, will discuss artists who walked the line between levity and gravity.

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Tony Kushner 2009 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize

Playwright Tony Kushner accepts the Chicago Tribune Literary Prize honoring his contribution to American literature and culture with this lecture on the interrelationships among politics, literature, and spirituality.
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Study Guide for the 2009 Terra Foundation for American Art ...

so easily.7 In Homer, the joke is 'told gravely', to borrow a phrase used by Mark Twain in his explanation of the mechanics of verbal deadpan.8 In this way ...
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LAUGHTER

of the day—such as Mark Twain and Artemus Ward—these visual humorists struck the funny bone by playing it straight. This annual lecture recognizes a ...
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Surviving Darkness

Acclaimed author William Styron discusses themes from his 1992 publication “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness.”

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Chicago Tribune Literary Prize

Satirist Tom Wolfe illuminates the state of young writers and the second American gilded age.  In this wide-ranging and very funny lecture, Wolfe also highlights his favorite American novels and his observations on the dotcom bust.

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1918 Flu Epidemic The Last Town on Earth

Set against the backdrop of the 1918 flu epidemic Thomas Mullen’s powerful, sweeping first novel The Last Town on Earth is a tale of morality in an earlier time of upheaval.
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