Summer Reading Recommendations

We’re getting summer book recommendations from the head of Chicago’s American Writers Museum.

Nerdette Book Club: ‘White Ivy’
Nerdette Book Club: ‘White Ivy’

Summer Reading Recommendations

We’re getting summer book recommendations from the head of Chicago’s American Writers Museum.

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Located on Michigan Avenue, near Millennium Park, you may have walked by the American Writers Museum countless times without knowing it. The only one of its kind in the country, it’s a museum devoted to our national heroes of the written word, literary legends like Walt Whitman and Upton Sinclair, as well as people you might not think would be included… like film critic Roger Ebert and comedian Richard Pryor.

Reset gets summer book recommendations from the head of the American Writers Museum.

GUEST: Carey Cranston, President, American Writers Museum