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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 50 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 1,451 views per video. Most appearances with Tom Paschalis (29), Peter Slen (27), Elizabeth Taylor (20). Most common tags: U.S. History, Culture, Illinois.

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    Quitting

    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Keller discussed her book, Quitting, about the positive aspects of throwing in the to…

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    David Masciotra, Elizabeth Strauss Friedman and Bill O'Neill

    Cultural critic David Masciotra (I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters), poet Elizabeth Strauss Friedman (The Lost Positiv

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    Not Funny

    Comedian and filmmaker Jena Friedman talked about her book “Not Funny,” a collection of essays on cancel culture, sexism, wor…

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    I Am Sorry

    Director Jack Bender (Lost, The Sopranos, Game of Thrones) discussed his book, I Am Sorry, a collection of his original paint…

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