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Monday Conversation and reading with Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith reads from her new work, Swing Time and is introduced by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah.
Tuesday Monica Youn: Poetry & Law
Monica Youn read from her new book, "Blackacre" and participated in a discussion with Martha Dragich, professor emerita of law at the University of Missouri School of Law.
George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo
One of the masters of short fiction, MacArthur Fellow George Saunders comes to CHF to discuss his long-awaited first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo. Narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, this book reimagines the death of Abraham Lincoln's eleven-year-old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War. Inspiring in its ambition and formal innovation, it may be Saunders' most original and moving book yet. DePaul University Humanities Director Peter Steeves joins Saunders in conversation.
Matthew Desmond (author of Evicted)
Matthew Desmond, author of EVICTED (Crown), speaks about his book at the First-Year Experience® (FYE) Conference in Atlanta, GA.
Chuck Klosterman: "But What If We're Wrong" | Talks At Google
Klosterman talks about how his latest book, "But What If We're Wrong?" in which visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. One of the most provocative, perceptive, and entertaining cultural critics of our time considers whether much of what we think we know about reality is false, why that is, and why it matters in all things including music, democracy and the internet.
Susan Jacoby: 2016 National Book Festival
Susan Jacoby discusses "Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion" with Tom Gjelten from NPR at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
The Art of Philosophy by Susanna Berger
Delving into the intersections between artistic images and philosophical knowledge in Europe from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries, The Art of Philosophy shows that the making and study of visual art functioned as important methods of philosophical thinking and instruction.
Kristin Hannah: 2016 National Book Festival
Kristin Hannah discusses The Nightingale at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Asian-American Literature Today: Kundiman Spotlight
Poets Janine Joseph and Aimee Nezhukumatathil read and discuss their work with Kundiman Advisory Board Co-Chair Jennifer Chang.
Anne-Marie Slaughter: 2016 National Book Festival
Anne-Marie Slaughter discusses "Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family" with Mary Louise Kelly from NPR at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Daniel Dennett: "From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds"
In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, Daniel C. Dennett's most comprehensive exploration of evolutionary thinking yet, he builds on ideas from computer science and biology to show how a comprehending mind could in fact have arisen from a mindless process of natural selection. Part philosophical whodunit, part bold scientific conjecture, this landmark work enlarges themes that have sustained Dennett's legendary career at the forefront of philosophical thought.
Celebration of E.L. Doctorow with Ta-Nehisi Coates and Jennifer Egan
Friends and fellow writers pay tribute to E. L. Doctorow upon posthumous publication of his Collected Stories. "His prose tends to create its own landscape," wrote Don DeLillo. "His sensitivity to language is perfectly balanced and complemented by a gigantic vision," wrote Jennifer Egan. "He did not so much write fiction about history as he seemed to occupy history itself," wrote Ta-Nehisi Coates. "He owned it. He made it his own."

Don DeLillo also read this evening, from the Doctorow novel Billy Bathgate, but it was not recorded.
Becoming Madison: The Extraordinary Origins of the Least Likely Founding Father
Michael Signer crafted his biography of James Madison in a different way by focusing on the fourth president's youth. He characterized the book as "an intellectual and psychological biography of a young Madison before age 36."
Conversation with Lisa Lucas
Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, Lisa Lucas discusses the responsibilities of her title and her passion for literacy. See the full conversation and more at booktv.org
Margaret Atwood and Angel Catbird
Margaret Atwood presents volume two in her graphic novel series, "Angel Catbird", published in association with conversation charity Nature Canada's Keep Cats Safe and Save Birds Lives initiative.

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