Liesl Olson is the author of Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis (Yale U P, 2017) and Modernism and the Ordinary (Oxford U P, 2009). She has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Newberry Library, where she is currently Director of Chicago Studies.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Cad of the Century: Two New Biographies of Ben Hecht
Liesl Olson digs into two new biographies of Ben Hecht by Adina Hoffman and Julien Gorbach....
My L.A. in Four Locations: Little Worlds
My L.A. in Four Locations is a running feature. This week, Liesl Olson describes the little worlds she discovered and built in Los Angeles....
Midwest Interludes: Three Vignettes of the Chicago Renaissance
Liesl Olson shares three vignettes from “Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis.”...
Carl Sandburg’s Chicago: Stormy, Husky, Brawling at 100
It’s time to read Carl Sandburg again....
