Printers Row Lit Fest

Printers Row Lit Fest is an annual book fair and literary festival held in Chicago, Illinois. The fair's literary "tableau . . . fills a downtown district where linotype machines and printing presses once whirred. Wikipedia*

On the C-SPAN Networks:
Printers Row Lit Fest has hosted 49 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2000 Speech. The year with the most events was 2010 with two events. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 2017 with an average of 1,376 views per video. Most appearances with Tom Paschalis (29), Peter Slen (27), Elizabeth Taylor (19). Most common tags: U.S. History, Culture, Illinois.

Recent Programs

September 11, 2022
They Knew

Journalist Sarah Kendzior, co-host of the “Gaslit Nation” podcast, talked about the rise of conspiracy theories in America…
September 10, 2022
Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System

Chris Fabricant, director of strategic litigation at the Innocence Project, talked about criminal cases in which he argues…
September 11, 2022
On Critical Race Theory

Victor Ray, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, talked about the foundations of critical race theory and argued that…
September 12, 2021
Chicago's Great Fire

Carl Smith, professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University, talked about the 1871 fire that destroyed over three square…