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“Learn at Lunch”…

May 16, 2017 by KR

…is a lovely program put on by Mary Holloway at Chicago’s University Club in the Loop. This afternoon, I got to speak there about Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk and the book’s real life inspiration, Margaret Fishback, for such attendees as these…

…& these…

…& these…

Thanks so much to Mary for including me in her programming, to Laura Sterkel for introducing me, and to everyone who took time out of their busy Monday to hear about literature and the real-life highest paid ad woman in America in the 1930s!

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