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*** TICKETS ON SALE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC THURSDAY 1/23 @ 10am ***

CHICAGO HUMANITIES & FITZGERALDS NIGHTCLUB Present:
The Interview Show w/ Host MARK BAZER featuring:
SAMANTHA HARVEY & JONATHAN WEISMAN

$20 General Admission Seating & $30/seat Reserved Tables

The Interview Show, the long-running live talk show and former WTTW program hosted by Mark Bazer. Samantha Harvey is a novelist and the winner of the 2024 Booker Prize for her fifth novel, “Orbital.”

Samantha Harvey is the author of five novels, Orbital, The Western Wind, Dear Thief, All Is Song, and The Wilderness, which won the Betty Trask Prize, and one work of nonfiction, The Shapeless Unease. Her books have been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Guardian First Book Award, and the James Tait Black Prize, as well as longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Baileys Women’s Prize. She lives in Bath, UK, and teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University.

About “Orbital”:  
Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft above the earth. They are there to collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day.


Jonathan Weisman, a journalist and author, has been covering politics, government and economics for more than 30 years, the last 12 at The New York Times. He is currently a political writer based in Chicago, his destination of escape after 25 years in Washington, D.C. He is the author of a novel, No. 4 Imperial Lane, and the non-fiction book (((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump. A native of Atlanta, a graduate of Northwestern University and a survivor of the Peace Corps, he has two grown daughters and two grown stepdaughters, and lives with his wife, Jennifer Steinhauer, on the Near West Side of Chicago.

Chicago Humanities (CH) is the largest and longest-running urban festival of arts and ideas in the United States. You can learn more at: https://www.chicagohumanities.org

You can learn more about The Interview Show at: www.theinterviewshowchicago.com or by calling Mark.

Grab dinner before the show at BABYGOLD BARBECUE