04.09.06: TONY FITZPATRICK & BILL SAVAGE

Tony Fitzpatrick spins magical tales from his own history and that of his beloved city Chicago via drawing-collages, vivid combinations of drawing, text and applied elements like matchbooks, postcards, gambling slips and ballgame stubs. He is an artist, actor and author of Max and Gaby's Alphabet. His work has exhibited at Chicago's Art Institute and MCA, and NYC's MOMA. He lives in Chicago.

Bill Savage teaches courses at Northwestern University in twentieth-century American literature, with special focus on the novel and the Lost and Beat Generations. His research focuses on theories of how people read narrative in relation to aesthetics (ideas about what is or is not good art) and ideology (politics as made manifest in literature). He also writes about the relationship between popular and elite culture in the context of evolving standards for what is thought to be great literature.

Listen to Tony and Bill on The Lit Show (RealMedia Streaming)