Interviews with Adam
- Unruly Figures Podcast, Adam Morgan on Margaret C. Anderson
- Unburied Books NYRB Podcast, In the Cafe of Lost Youth with Adam Morgan
- WBEZ (NPR Chicago), Best books of the year
- Chicago Tribune, A lover of Chicago books launches the wiki site Chicago Literary Archive
- WBEZ (NPR Chicago), Love Chicago Books? This Archive Is For You.
- Literary Hub, Adam Morgan on Penelope Fitzgerald, Eve Ewing, and Chicago Critics
- InsideHook, Five Books That Changed My Life: Adam Morgan
- The Paris Review, Is This a Classic Chicago Novel?
- WBEZ (NPR Chicago), 5 Chicago-Based Authors Are Finalists For Lambda Literary Awards
- WBEZ (NPR Chicago), The Best Reads of 2019
- WLPN, The Cliff-Dwellers
- WGN, The Best Chicago Novels by Neighborhood
Short Bio
Adam Morgan is a culture journalist and critic who lives near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His writing has appeared in Esquire, WIRED, Scientific American, Inverse, The Paris Review, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. He is the author of A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: The Woman Who Fought to Publish James Joyce in the Roaring 20s (coming 2025 from One Signal Publishers, an imprint of Atria Books at Simon & Schuster). He writes a newsletter about forthcoming books called The Frontlist.
Long Bio
Adam Morgan is a culture journalist and critic, as well as the founding editor of the Chicago Review of Books, the Southern Review of Books, and the Chicago Literary Archive. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Esquire, Inverse, WIRED, Polygon, Scientific American, Guernica, Game Informer, BOMB Magazine, The AV Club, The Guardian, Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Longreads, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader, Philadelphia Inquirer, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and elsewhere. He writes a newsletter about forthcoming books called The Frontlist, and he’s also an editorial director at Policygenius.
Adam is represented by Natalie Edwards at Trellis Literary Management. He’s currently writing A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Ulysses, Margaret C. Anderson, and the Women Who Fought America’s First Modern Book Bans (forthcoming in 2025 from One Signal Publishers, an imprint of Atria Books at Simon & Schuster).
He is a core faculty member at StoryStudio Chicago and has taught writing at Roosevelt University in Chicago and the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. In 2018, he won the James Friend Memorial Award by the Society of Midland Authors for literary criticism, as well as a National City and Regional Magazine Award for his work in Chicago magazine. He’s a proud member of the Caxton Club.
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