Marathon Readers
Marathon Reading: On the Road
9:00 am –9:00 pm
Conaway Center
1104 South Wabash, 1st floor
In the true spirit of the Beat Generation, readers from the Columbia College community, as well as celebrity guest readers from the Chicago area, will bring Kerouac’s words to life in an all-day marathon reading of On the Road.
The Marathon Reading is part of the Columbia College Chicago / Chicago Humanities Festival Open House.
There are three readers scheduled per each half hour of the 12-hour marathon:
9-9:30 a.m. Randy Albers (Chair, Fiction Writing)
Bill Hageman
Brian Costello, Local musician, talk show host, and
author of the novel The Enchanters vs. Sprawlburg
Springs
9:30-10 a.m. Brenda Berman (Director of Marketing)
Gina Parker
Christopher Sweet
10-10:30 a.m. Dave Schwan
10:30-11 a.m. Annice Kelly (VP and General Counsel)
Lindsay Muscato
11- 11:30 a.m. Allen Turner (Chairman of the Board)
Louise Love (VP for Academic Affairs)
Aaron Willett
11:30-noon Deb Lewis (Fiction Writing)
Julie AJ Viola Downey (Interdisciplinary Arts & Media
MFA Student)
Noon- 12:30 Ericka Mikkalo (Fiction Writing Alum)
John Gugala
Cathleen Schanderlmeier
12:30-1 p.m. Kevin Walker Kilroy
Gabrielle Werner
Donna Kiser
1-1:30 p.m. Cynthium Johnson-Woodfolk
Abigail Sheaffer (Undergrad Fiction Writing Major)
Ali Lansana Quraysh, Poet, Director of the Gwendolyn
Brooks Center for Black Literature & Creative Writing;
Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at
Chicago State University
1:30-2 p.m. Kevin Cassidy (Art & Design Faculty)
Micheal McColly
2-2:30 p.m. Robin Dluzen, Painting and Drawing MFA student, The
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Jennifer Karmin
Marcus Sakey
2:30-3 p.m. Doree McNulty, a lifelong Chicago resident and poet
Kate Donalek (Film & Video Graduate Student)
Ken Daley (Chair, English)
3-3:30 p.m. AJ Camarena (Undergrad Fiction Writing Major)
Sandi Wisenberg
Amira Hanafi
3:30-4 p.m. Taylor Swanson
Charles Belanger (Fiction Writing MFA, 2007)
4-4:30 p.m. Chet Kamin (Lawyer, Writer, Trustee)
Richard Babcock
Gioia Dilberto
4:30-5 p.m. Arlie Sims (Head of Reference and Instructional
Services, Library)
David Dolak (Science and Math Artist-in-Residence)
5-5:30 p.m. Marian Hayes, Instructor of Continuing Adult Education,
Chicago State University
Bryn Lerud, (Fiction Writing student at large)
5:30-6 p.m. Steven Kiratsous
Susan Imus (Chair, Dance Movement Therapy)
Robert Puccinelli
6-6:30 p.m. Nina Mayer
CJ Laity (Fiction Writing Alum, 1987)
Booker Catron
6:30-7 p.m. Ellen Stone Belic (Trustee)
Adam Shames
Rick Kogan, Chicago Newspaperman
7-7:30 p.m. Sid Yiddish (Print Journalism Alum, 1990, performance
artist)
Wes O. Heine, Poet, Blues Singer
Donna Seaman, Associate Editor of BOOKLIST and
ardent Story Week participant
7:30-8 p.m. Selena Fragassi (Fiction Writing Alum, Writer)
Jerome Ludwig, Chicago Reader
Elizabeth Adler
8-8:30 p.m. Larry Sawyer, Editor of milkmag.org
Jan Hieggelke, Publisher of Newcity
Brian Hieggelke, Editor and Publisher of Newcity
8:30-9 p.m. Kevin Kitchen, Writer/Producer at Travelzoo.com
Ted May
Shelley Nation-Rankin