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By Grant Rindner<\/strong><\/p>\n

You could be forgiven for thinking that the Chicago Cubs\u2019 World Series cliffhanger and subsequent Game 7 victory marked the city\u2019s\u00a0 signature cultural event of the past few weeks.<\/p>\n

But in nooks of the city such as Francis W. Parker School in Lincoln Park or Northwestern University\u2019s Cahn Auditorium, crowds of local literary enthusiasts gathered, many clad in Cubbie blue, to hear their heroes like authors Jonathan Lethem (Fortress of Solitude<\/em>) and Grant Faulkner (100 Word Stor<\/em>y) extol the virtues of writing fast and for yourself.<\/p>\n

\u201cBaseball is suffering. You have a distinction here [in Chicago] and you might not want to let go of it,\u201d said Lethem, teasing the crowd before his talk on October 29 \u2013 and before that historic Game 7.<\/p>\n

Spanning dozens of similar venues, and more than a 100 events, the Chicago Humanities Festival<\/a> (CHF) is thriving in its 27th fall program. The festival runs through November 12. In addition to Faulkner and Lethem, the festival includes the likes of Gloria Steinem, Marshall Brown, Trevor Noah, and Melissa Harris-Perry in the literati lineup. CHF boasts more than 1,500 members whose contributions pay for roughly 80 percent of the festival\u2019s finances.<\/p>\n

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This year\u2019s theme is \u201cSpeed,\u201d the accelerated pace of our daily lives and the role that the arts and culture have in counteracting that frenzied feeling.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe theme of Speed is full of contradictions \u2013 that\u2019s why we like it!\u201d said festival artistic director Jonathan Elmer in a press release. \u201cYou can find commuters flipping through 1,000-page novels on the L, but they expect that book will arrive with same-day delivery,” Elmer noted.<\/p>\n

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Grant Faulkner (right) in conversation with Ian Belknap at the CHF.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Faulkner\u2019s program, \u201cHow to Write Fast \u2013 and Why,\u201d certainly fit the bill. He serves as the executive director of National Novel Writing Month<\/a> (dubbed \u201cNaNoWriMo\u201d), an annual event each November that challenges people to write 50,000 words in 30 days. His conversation with Ian Belknap, a Chicago-based writer\/performer who founded the competitive reading series Write Club<\/a>, centered on how to kick-start creativity, quell your inner editor, and remove the stigma of writing being an isolated activity.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor years I was one of these plodding, precious writers because I didn\u2019t have a deadline,\u201d Faulkner said of his own struggles. \u201cSo I would continually write one sentence or one paragraph or one chapter and then go back and continually perfect things, which is fine except the novel didn\u2019t ever really move forward. The thing about NaNoWriMo is that you have that pressure, you don\u2019t have time to second guess yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Faulkner stressed the importance of writing for your own personal gain and creative expression. Lethem, who spoke at the festival with former WBEZ host Alison Cuddy on October 29 as part of the festival\u2019s Northwestern Day, said that he set out to write his new book, A Gambler\u2019s Anatomy<\/em>, largely for himself. He wanted to get back to basics in his own off-kilter style. His latest novel operates as part-travelogue, part-gambling story with elements of noir and visceral horror.<\/p>\n

\u201cI began writing novels that came almost completely out of imaginative personal associations, other artworks I liked, and dreams, my own pie-eyed, strange imaginings,\u201d Lethem said. \u201cI think having a book [Dissident Gardens<\/em>, his previous novel] where I had constituencies of the living and the dead at my shoulders, had an immense sense of involvement and implication and responsibility. That was exciting, but when I got done I conceived of going back to being a storyteller and making up something where no one could get angry at me\u2026except maybe two or three backgammon experts.\u201d<\/p>\n

The versatile author won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2006 for Motherless Brooklyn<\/em>, and has churned out 10 novels that blend and rearrange genre tropes into unprecedented concoctions. He fielded questions from Cuddy about his new novel as well as\u00a0 the relationship between his writing and the constant barrage of material, both practical and pointless, that he finds on the Internet.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn a really practical level of just keeping myself on the balance beam, I use an Internet blocking program. It seems really dorky to need that but it\u2019s really interesting. I think a lot of writers need that,\u201d Lethem said. \u201cMy relationship to [the Internet] is a constant negotiation. Sometimes I feel really alive to the rabbit holes and happy to be able to fly into them in different ways. And other times it seems really problematic, and I\u2019m sure that that\u2019s true for almost everyone in different ways. You have an ambivalent relationship to this riot of information and energy and imagery that\u2019s just at your fingertips.\u201d<\/p>\n

While events at CHF span topics from film and art to politics and current events, literature played a tremendous role in this season\u2019s program.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn part because the festival attracts a crowd that is really invested in both contemporary and classic literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, our programming team goes out of their way to find the rising stars, the giants of all those fields and academics,\u201d said festival spokesman Joe Engleman.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s still time to catch the final handful of fall programs, but those who are still awash in Cubs celebration madness will be able to enrich themselves thanks to CHF\u2019s spring festival, which debuted last year.<\/p>\n

Locate tickets for remaining CHF events here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Photo at top: Jonathan Lethem discusses his involuted process for creating a novel with Alison Cuddy at the Chicago Humanities Festival. (Grant Rindner\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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