In Conversation at The Arts Club Chicago: Liesl Olson

In conversation with artist Lincoln Schatz, Liesl Olson, author of Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis, traces Chicago’s cultural development from the 1893 World’s Fair through midcentury, illuminating how Chicago writers revolutionized literary forms during the first half of the twentieth century, a period of sweeping aesthetic transformations all over the world.