IMSS Book Club: Reading Between the Spines

Are you interested in diving deeper into the themes explored through our collections and exhibitions? Do you love reading? Then you’re in luck, IMSS has its very own book club!

Our next meeting will be Wednesday April 15th, 2020. Due to COVID-19, we will be conducting this meeting online! Those who RSVP on eventbrite will receive instructions on how to join.

At each meeting there will be a round table style book discussion, refreshments and an opportunity to either explore objects from our collections or get hands-on with interactive activities that are thematically relevant to the text.

This program is free and open to the public.

This time we're reading The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson.

About the Book:

Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

The No. 1 New York Times bestseller about the architect who led the construction of the great Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, and the prolific serial killer who used the fair as a lure. Just blocks from the fairgrounds, the killer built a hotel of horrors equipped with an acid vat, dissection table and crematorium. The book won an Edgar Award for best fact-crime writing, and was a finalist for a National Book Award. In November 2010, Leonardo DiCaprio acquired the rights to make a feature film based on Devil, and has stated he plans to play the role of the killer, Dr. H. H. Holmes.

About the Author:

Erik Larson is the author of six New York Times bestsellers, including Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, which hit no. 1 on the Times list soon after launch, and his newest book, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz. The latter is in large part a domestic drama that examines how Winston Churchill and his “Secret Circle” really went about surviving the German air campaign of 1940-41. Erik’s The Devil in the White City is set to be a Hulu limited series; his In the Garden of Beasts is under option by Tom Hanks, for a feature film. Erik lives in Manhattan with his wife, who is a writer and retired neonatologist; they have three grown daughters.

Get the book in our IMSS shop! Members receive 10% off. https://imss.ecwid.com/Devil-in-the-White-City-by-Erik-Larson-p180281863

OR

Check it out from the Chicago Public Library: https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/show/910478126