Happy almost Spring!
My review of Mike Farris’ book Blowhard: Windbaggery and the Wretched Ethics of Clarence Darrow has been posted here.
The Newberry Library had a presentation yesterday evening, in which a panel of experts talked about what the Leopold-Loeb case would have looked like if it had been committed and tried today. When the video of that presentation gets posted to the Newberry’s youtube channel I’ll add it to the Videos page and link it here as well.
On April 20th in Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre Studio there will be a night of 4 one act plays presented back to back. One of those is ‘Bobby Franks’ by Paula Frew. The description from the website reads: “In an affluent suburb of 1920’s Chicago, University students, Richard and Nathan plan the perfect murder… because they can!” Admission is £12. To find out more information or buy tickets, go here.
I myself have some presentations coming up in the next month or two:
- April 10th, 2024, 6:30pm Central Time, in-person and virtual: Talk at the Schaumburg Public Library. You can register for that event here.
- April 14th, 2024, Sunday, 2pm, in-person: Talk at the Joliet Historical Museum. $5 for the general public, free for Museum members. For more information go here. To book tickets go to this page and find my program listed as: Second Sunday Lecture: Arrested Adolescence
- April 17th, 2024, 7pm Central Time, virtual: Presentation for the Illinois Ornithological Society’s speaker’s series.
- May 21st, 2024, 7:30pm Central Time, in-person: Talk at the Elgin Public Museum.
The Schaumburg talk will be a fairly general overview of the Leopold-Loeb story and Leopold’s later life, but the Joliet talk will focus in on the lives Leopold and Loeb led in Joliet prison, and the talk for the Illinois Ornithological Society will focus on Leopold’s birding (though both will still cover the crime as well). Hope to see some of you there!
The Lives and Legends of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold 