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How Prague Worked its Magic & Helped Einstein & Kafka Changed our Universe w/ Ken Krimstein
September 8 @ 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
$10
DATE AND TIME UPDATED!
Come Kibbitz with local author Ken Krimstein and celebrate his new book, graphic biography Einstein in Kafkaland, How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came up with the Universe. Publisher’s Weekly calls it “Irreverent yet full of tenderness for its subjects. . .a dizzying delight.”
Ken Krimstein is a New Yorker cartoonist and a graphic novelist and historian. His most recent book, When I Grow Up – The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers was named an NPR Best Book of the Year in 2021, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year and a Chicago Tribune Fall “Best Read.” His 2018 graphic biography The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt – A Tyranny of Truth has been translated into seven languages and was winner of the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir, named one of the Best Graphic Novels of the Year by Forbes, a National Jewish Book Award Finalist and a Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize.
In addition to his cartooning and graphic novels, he has published humor in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The New York Observer, and graphic reporting for The New York Times. He has had one person art shows at the Goethe Institute in Washington, D.C., and the Spertus Institute in Chicago. He has held full-time positions on faculty at DePaul University and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- There will be a Q&A and kosher refreshments after the talk and books available for purchase and signing.
- Before or after meeting Ken, check out Printers Row Book Fair happening nearby!
Parking: $10 with validation from synagogue front desk
Washington Madison Wells Garage | 172 West Madison Street
