Book it over to the 28th Printers Row Lit Fest—this year hosting 160 author events, 200 booksellers, and an estimated 125,000 fans of the writer’s art. Here are the highlights, chronologically:
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First thing Saturday, June 9, former CBS news anchor Dan Rather discusses his new autobiography, Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News, with Tribune reporter Rick Kogan (Sat 10 AM, Harold Washington Center, 400 S. State). At the same hour, two authors of Chicago-centric collections, Michael Czyzniejewski and Dmitry Samarov, share a stage. Czyzniejewski wrote Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions, which includes short pieces like “Rod Blagojevich Negotiates His First Prison Tattoo, Joliet State Penitentiary”; Samarov’s Hack: Stories From a Chicago Cab captures the prostitutes, drunks, and Cubs fans he’s chauffeured around (Sat 10 AM, University Center, 525 S. State).
Former U.S. senator Adlai E. Stevenson III speaks with Tribune editorial page editor Bruce Dold about The Black Book, a compendium of notes and sayings and such collected by AES III’s illustrious namesakes, U.S. vice president AES and Illinois governor AES II (Sat 1 PM, University Center). Then change rooms for an encounter between two stars of literary nonfiction: Alex Kotlowitz and Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger (Sat 1:45 PM, University Center).
Sat-Sun 6/9-6/10, 10 AM-6 PM, various locations in the South Loop, chicagotribune.com/entertainment/books/printersrowlitfest, free.
