Illinois authors featured in chatcasts: From J.A. Konrath to Saul Bellow

From J.A. Konrath (May 10) to Saul Bellow (May 24), Illinois-related authors are the focus of new chatcasts from OPAL. Go here to partcipate and get the software (no spyware). More info here, via Tom Peters. For our sighted readers, the picture is of Bellow as his Nobel diploma shows him. Meanwhile here's an overview from the Illinois series:

...Wednesday, May 24, 2006 beginning at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 7:00 Central, 6:00 Mountain, 5:00 Pacific, and midnight GMT:

Book Discussion of The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

Follow Augie March, born to poor Russian Jewish immigrants, as he grows up in Depression-era Chicago, has many antic adventures, and tries to understand and navigate the modern American world of wealth, war, and women. This informal online book discussion is part of the series "The Sense of People; The Sense of Place" containing selected authors from Chicago and downstate Illinois. Other novels that will be discussed in the series include: Chicago Girls by Edith Freund, Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury, Studs Lonigan by James Farrell, So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell, Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, Native Son by Richard Wright, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Fire Sale by Sara Paretsky, and others. This series is sponsored by TAP Information Services.