LIT TOP 5 Nina Barrett / Lit Photo: Joe Mazza/Brave Lux1“The Death and Life of the Great Lakes.” Child Killers 57th Street Books. Dan Egan discusses the threat to our Nina Barrett discusses “The Leopold and Loeb Files” Great Lakes, which hold twenty percent of the world’s supply By Toni Nealie of fresh water. July 17 True crime murder mysteries fascinate Barrett, the author of three previous books JULY 2018 Newcity2 “An American Marriage.” people—including the case of wealthy and the co-owner of Bookends & Beginnings, American Writers’ Museum. teenaged murderers Nathan Leopold and discusses her approach.Tayari Jones’ latest book “An Richard Loeb. In 1924, the two University ofAmerican Marriage,” an Oprah Chicago students kidnapped and killed a Why write this book now? Is the murder Book Club Selection, looks at neighborhood kid, fourteen-year-old Robert still relevant? Still of interest? Why do injustice, gender roles and Franks, poured acid on his face, then stuffed you think people remain fascinated by betrayal. July 19 his body in a sewer pipe. They admitted to the murders—even generations-old ones? crime, but their motivation remains a puzzle. In3 “Long Players.” “The Leopold and Loeb Files: An Intimate Look When I curated an exhibit on this case in Seminary Co-op Book- at One of America’s Most Infamous Crimes,” 2009, I called it “The Murder That Wouldn’t stores. Peter Coviello discusses writer Nina Barrett delves into Northwestern Die” because, in the near-century that’s“Long Players: A Love Story in University’s archives, then assembles elapsed, writers and artists have continued Eighteen Songs” with Jessica interrogations and confessions, psychiatric to revive and reinvent the story. Something at Hopper, music critic and author reports, the court transcript, correspondence the heart of this story both compels and yet of “The First Collection of and the sensational media reports of the time. also completely eludes explanation. It’s not a Criticism By A Living Female Rock Critic.” July 174 “Calculating Stars.” Volumes Bookcafe. To celebrate the launch of HugoAward-winner Mary Robinette Kowal’s “The Calculating Stars:A Lady Astronaut Novel,” Volumes is hosting a 1950s- 60s space party. July 75 Ottessa Moshfegh. Women and Children First Bookstore. Writer Ottessa Moshfegh discusses her novel“My Year of Rest and Relaxation” with Jac Jemc. July 19 51
Newcity JULY 2018 “whodunit,” which could be solved and then that readers and audiences of these other In his closing argument, Clarence Darrow put to bed, it’s a “whydunit” that poses some works feel their curiosity piqued, they could asked the court—and of course the public, to of the most haunting questions we face in use my book as a way to look through a whom he was also speaking—to consider this civilized society: What makes a murderer keyhole of history into the rooms where, question: would you rather have been the different from you and me? And how do we, for instance, Leopold and Loeb were being grief-stricken parents of Bobby Franks, the as a human community, respond to those interrogated by detectives, or narrating the fourteen-year-old who never came home one who flagrantly violate one of our most murder in their own words, or where Clarence spring day and never would come home again, fundamental taboos? Darrow was employing his legendary rhetorical or the parents of Nathan Leopold and Richard genius to plead their case. Loeb, who were going to have to live out the This is a subject covered by other rest of their lives with the knowledge of what artists—recently included in graphic What do the public, and artists, get their children had done? There’s no good memoir “The Hunting Accident” by wrong about the case? Where do your answer to that question, of course. But it’s Chicagoans David L. Carlson and Landis sympathies lie? Is there anything that certainly one of the most haunting questions Blair, which references “Life Plus 99 perturbed or angered you? What are at the center of the case. Years,” the autobiography of Nathan you most uncertain of? Leopold. How does your work differ and It looks like painstaking work—how did how does it contribute to the body of If there’s a single thing that upsets me about you go about the task of sorting through work on the case and the people? much of the mythologizing of this case, it’s material and curating sources for the the glamorization of Leopold and Loeb as book? How long did it take? What were It’s astonishing, the variety of ways that writers characters. If you read the original newspaper some of the challenges? and artists have approached this case. For coverage, it was there right from the start— instance, Meyer Levin, who was a contempo- which is one reason I quote from contempo- I spent about nine months reading through rary of Leopold’s and Loeb’s at the University rary press coverage throughout the book. 10,000 pages of documentary evidence: of Chicago in the 1920s, and briefly reported Some of the most on the case as it unfolded, was still so haunted colorful examples the ransom note, the by it three decades later that he approached come from the work interrogations and Nathan Leopold, who was then in prison, of Maurine Watkins, confessions, the psychiat- to talk about collaborating on Leopold’s who would later ric reports, the court memoir. He really wanted to probe the why author the play transcript and the of it—something Leopold either couldn’t or “Chicago,” and who extensive collection of simply wouldn’t do. So Leopold wrote his picked up much of correspondence and other own memoir, “Life Plus 99 Years,” which is her creative material materials in the collection primarily concerned with asserting his claim by covering real assembled by attorney to rehabilitation in prison. Levin wrote what is Chicago crimes for Elmer Gertz, who won often called the first nonfiction novel about the the Chicago Daily Nathan Leopold’s parole murder, “Compulsion.” Critics said afterwards Tribune. She in 1958 and remained that if you really wanted insight into the minds described Nathan friendly with him until of the killers you should read Levin’s novel, Leopold, during his Leopold’s death in 1971. not Leopold’s nonfiction. interrogation, as I was looking for materials being “suave” that most directly address There’s the famous film “Rope,” which uses and “Caesar-like” the questions that one small detail about the case, the idea that as four reporters fascinate people about Leopold and Loeb had originally planned on lobbed questions the case—passages that strangling their victim, while each holding one at him about “love, go to motive, psychology, end of the rope, in order to perfectly share philosophy, art, sports”—and this gives us a remorse, legal procedure, responsibility for the murder. That’s not, in fact, snapshot, I think, not of who Leopold really morality, social justice—and I was also trying how the murder did occur, but it was a widely was, but of Leopold as a pathological liar to excerpt them in a sequence that keeps the publicized part of their confessions about being turned into a celebrity by a writer whose narrative of the story moving forward. And planning the murder. The original playwright, real craft was dramatization, not reporting. then I also read through contemporary Patrick Hamilton, used it as a plot device to coverage of the case in five different newspa- riff on the ideas of murder as an art form and I understand that it was irresistible for the pers—ironically, not so much for factual Nietzsche’s morality, which have become media to turn Leopold and Loeb into symbols background, but because that’s where you indelibly associated with the case. of their time—the wild Jazz Age of gangsters get much of the enduring mythology about and flappers and Roadsters and “Anything the case and the characters taking shape, And yes, in “The Hunting Accident,” Nathan Goes”—but what I see when I look under and I wanted to include some of that very Leopold gets a graphic novel incarnation and all the embroidery is a raw family tragedy of colorful coverage in the book. in the 2003 Off-Broadway musical “Thrill Me,” Shakespearean dimensions. I see three Leopold and Loeb actually get to sing. I think families—the Leopolds, the Loebs and also I found it grueling to read and it raised it’s fascinating that people continue to find the family of Bobby Franks, the victim—who so many questions. Do you think Leopold new lenses for viewing the case, and new had come to America as immigrants, achieved was playing to the parole board when he media for exploring the story—and that the American dream of self-made wealth and said he didn’t know why he did it? What audiences continue to care. social status, and who were preparing their do the different versions tell us about sons to build on that by providing them the memory and how people massage truth? The reader experiences the primary kinds of educations that would vault them into Did you come to any personal thoughts material without distortions of third-party America’s elite—and then it turned out that about redemption, capital punishment writers. What does that provide to the there was this worm in the apple. You could and some of the other issues raised? reader? What do you want readers to raise children with every advantage, to be come away with? brilliant overachievers, and in the end, what Well, I love that you ask those questions, they would overachieve at was committing a because that’s exactly what I wanted the book I wanted to re-introduce the real voices of crime that was going to live on in infamy for to do. And I do have some thoughts about the the original participants and to allow them to generations after you were gone for its answers, but I didn’t want to write the kind of speak for themselves, so that to the extent inexplicable cruelty. book where I would share them. In fact, I was constantly stepping back from that kind of52
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Music Morton Feldman Epochal MUSIC TOP 5 Whispers 1 Black Star. Taste of The Boundary-Erasing Piano Music Chicago. Yasiin Bey (the of Morton Feldman former Mos Def) and Talib Kweli have announced a second album, By Seth Boustead ten years after their first. Odds are, you’ll get a taste at Taste.Newcity JULY 2018 It’s a story legendary in classical music the halls of symphony centers looking for circles. Among the audience at the New fellow innovators with whom to change the July 13 York Philharmonic’s premiere of Anton world. I made that part up, but it’s plausible. Webern’s “Symphony,” Op. 21 in January 2 Foo Fighters. Wrigley Field. 1950 were two composers who were Cage and Feldman, though, did have an The Foos and Radiohead incensed at the audience’s disdain for the enormous impact on the development of are the arena gods competing for new work and who were uninterested in classical music in this country, largely through attention this month. The Friendly the more traditional fare on the rest of the innovations like incorporating chance into Confines give the Foos the edge. program, and stepped out into the lobby. their compositional process, using graphical They met, struck up a conversation and notation, pushing extremes of silence and, July 29, 30 became fast friends who would go on to especially in the case of Feldman, writing have a profound impact on twentieth- pieces of extreme duration: six hours in the 3 The James Hunter Six. century American music. case of his second string quartet. City Winery. The British bandleader-soul singer has a I’m talking about John Cage and Morton For years after their deaths, Feldman was new album, “Whatever It Takes”— Feldman, and the story is so famous that to not as well-known as Cage, but his music is and a full decade of proving that this day composers routinely leave concerts having a moment, programmed in concerts Motor City chops are a prime at intermission all over the country, to roam around the world, and it seems safe that Yank export. July 8 54 4 Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite. Thalia Hall. The enduring blues men tour their uncannily authentic and searingly intimate new album, “No Mercy In This Land.” July 30, 31 5 Vagabon. Schubas. The Cameroon-born singer- songwriter-multi-instrumentalist is as idiosyncratic a talent as she is lyrically arresting. A major new voice. July 20
many of his works are entering and undeniably musical whilethe canon. As a composer who also innovative and representingonce said, “I do think about the a break from the past.fact that I want to be the firstgreat composer that is Jewish,” If this sounds intriguing, you won’t want to miss hearing two ofI think he would be happy Feldman’s mature piano works onabout this. July 20 when Jonathan HannauAlthough he’s perhaps best and Christopher Narloch performknown for his gorgeous musical “For Bunita Marcus” and “Triadic Memories,” two pieces in whichinterpretation of the Rothko Feldman’s vision is fully realized.Chapel in Houston, solo pianomusic is where Feldman pushedboundaries and tried out his latest Both pianists had deep epipha- nies upon hearing this music forinnovations. Early on, he was the first time. Narloch says hisencouraged by Cage to usechance as part of his composi- “first experience of Feldman’s music was a live concert oftional process, but it was never ‘Triadic Memories.’ It was aroundthe right fit. Feldman was a the time when I was starting tocontrol freak who wanted his change my focus from standardmusic to do the impossible. classical repertoire to new music.He wanted to write music that It was so incredible for me, thatis highly structured, but sounds I would consider that the defininglike it has always existed, that is moment that inspired me to berhythmic and moves forward easily dedicated to modern music. So this upcoming concert willin time, but which never has a be really special to me.”steady pulse. Feldman’s musicrarely rises above a whisper, andits power is in a kind of extreme Hannau, who is a composer as well as a pianist, had a similarsubtlety that took years to getright. One has the feeling, when experience. “I first discovered Feldman when I was an under-listening to Feldman, that the graduate at DePaul University. Imost incredibly delicate sonic was in the twenty-plus new musicbalancing act is taking place, ensemble and we played a piecevery slowly on another plane. called ‘For Frank O’Hara.’ FromAnother paradox of Feldman’s there I was hooked on the beautymusic is that he achieved this of his slow and quiet movingmagical effect without the use music, and although I don’t writeof traditional harmonic devices, my own compositions like that,which he hated. “Polyphony it had a profound impact on mysucks,” he once said. To Feldman, thoughts on musical practice.”harmony smacked of a vertical Like a lot of late Feldman, theapproach to writing music that works are long—seventy-fivewas profoundly uninteresting. minutes in the case of “For BonitaThere were also unappealingovertones of Germanic Christianity. Marcus” and ninety in the case of “Triadic Memories.” As Narloch“Because I’m Jewish, I do not says, “I think some people mayidentify with, say, Western be hesitant to attend a Feldmancivilization music. In other words, concert because of the longwhen Bach gives us a diminished duration, so we’re letting people know that they can come and gofourth, I cannot respond that whenever they please, and theythe diminished fourth means, can wear whatever they want.O God… What are our morals We’ll see what happens!”in music? Our moral in musicis nineteenth-century German But if you get into the rightmusic, isn’t it?” meditative mindset, you willI’m not sure we have morals in not want to leave. Feldman is amusic anymore, so to speak, highly musical composer, he’sbut twentieth-century musical just working on a different time JULY 2018 Newcityhistory was all about wriggling scale. For Hannau, “it’s a greataway from the influence of the old feeling being enveloped in thesemasters and toward composers sounds and just allowing yourselflike Feldman, any kind of counter- to exist with them. Nothing more,point or harmony was retrogres- nothing less.”sive in the extreme, a sign oflaziness in the composer. The Ravenswood Fellowship Unitedmagic of Feldman is that he Methodist Church, 4511 Northcreated music that is beautiful Hermitage, July 20, 7pm; free. 55
Stage STAGETOP5 Emilie Modaff / Photo: Alexus McLane Photography 1 The Roommate. Steppenwolf Theatre Company. “The Odd Couple” meets “Breaking Bad” in Jen Silverman’s warm, funny story about a chance cohabitation that sets two lives spinning, directed by Tony Award-winning Phylicia Rashad and starring Steppenwolf ensemble members Ora Jones and Sandra Marquez. Opens July 1 2 Linda. Steep Theatre. Olivier Award nominee Penelope Skinner’s latest is a searingly funny portrait of a woman on the frontlines of the fight for relevance. Opens July 12 3 Everybody. Brown Paper Box Co. Brandon Jacobs- Jenkins’ modern riff on the fifteenth- century morality play follows Everybody (chosen from the cast by lottery at each performance) as they travel down a road toward life’s greatest mystery. Opens July 16Newcity JULY 2018 Discomfort 4 The Harvest. Griffin Theatre. Over Oppression Jonathan Berry returns to Griffin to direct the Chicago A Conversation On Non-Binary Inclusion with premiere of Samuel D. Hunter’s Emilie Modaff, Avi Roque and Catherine Miller play, which reminds us that faith doesn’t come easily, no matter By Erin Shea Brady where you look for it. Opens July 21 Theater is a vehicle for change. Our product is empathy and human connection. 5 Bliss (or Emily Post is Through narrative and representation, we have the power to humanize experiences that Dead!). Promethean Theatre may be misunderstood; to redefine one person’s perception of another; to explode, Ensemble. A rolling world-premiere explore and challenge boxes that go unquestioned, boxes which allow us to sort each dramedy in which four women of Greek tragedy–Clytemnestra, 56 Medea, Antigone and Cassandra– become New Jersey neighbors in 1960. Opens July 28
other into comfortable ask. Ask respectfully. Ask fromclassifications that diminish an educated point of view. Butour individuality and contribute transparency in communicationto the erasure of entire is vital if we are going to learn.communities which areotherwise thriving. “I’m not interested playing the feminine end of the spectrumThe genderqueer community but will consider playing menboasts some of the most and boys, depending on theexciting artists that this industry script,” says Avi Roque, thoughhas to offer. Beyond type, they pointed out that, in thesebeyond look, beyond boxes instances, they are still beingto check, we look to actors asked to choose a binaryas passionate communicators identity. For Roque, comfortwith something to say. Our is largely about whether orworld, which still largely not they are being tokenized:operates within a binary whether the request to workunderstanding of gender, on a project is based on whataggressively erases people they, as an individual, can bringwho find themselves elsewhere to the table, rather than beingon the gender spectrum. While “plugged into” a role to fill aplays like Taylor Mac’s “Hir” are diversity quota.starting the conversation andopening up opportunities for Modaff, at this point in theirnon-binary folx, these actors life and career, is comfortableare still at war for visibility, for being considered for femmethe chance to show up, not as roles. However, the goal is toa statement, but as themselves, reframe all existing narrativeson and offstage. in a less gendered way.I went into this exchange with “Queer people have beencasting director Catherine around,” says Modaff.Miller and actors Avi Roqueand Emilie Modaff hoping to Being non-binary is not newwalk away with an understand- and it is not a trend. Often,ing of expectations, of what’s companies and directors offerokay and what’s not okay up the dramaturgy argumentwhen working with non-binary for keeping characters in strictactors and a new list of best gender roles. Dramaturgically,practices to guide us through the erasure of genderqueerthe challenges of a new people is driven by narrative,communication standard. which we have a powerfulWhat roles should we call opportunity to correct. Morethem in for? What language is stories than we recognize canpreferred? How do we move be just as truthful and resonant,forward, into uncharted waters, likely even more so, withoutwhile keeping spaces safe? being aggressively gendered.What I found was a deeply Roque tells me about their ex- JULY 2018 Newcityprofound call to discomfort perience booking an industrial.and progress, to shift our The original sides (the scriptapproach to story away from excerpts used in auditions) hadtype and toward individuality gendered pronouns, but onceas well as a conversation that an offer was made, pronounscannot be summed up in a were changed to they/them/thousand words. theirs, which didn’t change or compromise the integrity ofOr can it? As Emilie Modaff the work.says succinctly, “Discomfortis better than oppression.” Roque was also clear to stress the importance ofActors want to work, and a developing new worklarge portion of plays and (“Grooming writers who aremusicals produced are revivals. not cisgender”) that givesWith so few existing non-binary further visibility to genderqueercharacters, I wondered: are actors and playwrights.gender non-conforming folxcomfortable playing roles that Roque and Modaff wereare gendered? careful to point out that visibility doesn’t just mean producingThe answer: it depends on the issue plays about the genderperson, and when in doubt, binary though communicating 57
these stories to an audience is still important. environment in service of staying comfortable. they/them in place of she/her or he/him Nonbinary stories exist beyond issue plays If we educate ourselves, there are needs will likely feel weird grammatically. Before and genderqueer actors are versatile. They we can anticipate, small ways in which to you point this out to your non-binary have myriad stories to tell. unburden these actors and let them know friends, please consider that your status that they are valued, in addition to engaging as a grammar nerd is not more important “We are people. We are talented people. in larger conversation about the future of than the support and affirmation of the We can tell a story,” says Modaff. storytelling in our field: human being standing in front of you. The grammar argument is an easy way to tell a These artists are on the front lines of this • Include preferred pronouns in your person that your temporary comfort is of conversation. They bear the brunt of the introductions. List them in your email higher priority than their journey, progress burden to educate, “not because I’m an signature and on your company website. If and identity. expert, but because I exist in the world as a someone—relative, friend, colleague—asks person who cares,” Roque points out. They why, educate them about the gender binary. • If you’re in a leadership role and an often make difficult decisions about whether This will also allow non-binary actors to give actor is misgendered, check in with them to negotiate their ideals and wellbeing in order their pronouns without feeling called out. privately and ask them how they would like to get work. It is our collective responsibility to handle the situation. Sometimes, they’ll to lift this burden where we’re able and that • Leave a blank line on audition sheets so want you to step in. Sometimes, they’ll starts with changing the way we talk about that actors may list their preferred pronouns. want to handle it themselves. Sometimes, actors, broadly. Not all non-binary actors use they/them. it’s worth a quick email, reminding the group that respect for pronouns is “As a non-binary casting director, I feel like • Be thoughtful about language in casting standard and non-negotiable. Sometimes, I’m an advocate in every space I enter,” says breakdowns. Is it crucial to the plot that the situation is more serious and real Catherine Miller, who spoke of being a liaison the characters be gendered? Is there an intervention is required. In all of these in the casting process and a champion of opportunity to tell a more inclusive story? cases, the misgendered actor is most transparent communication. “We need to directly affected and should therefore make space for actors to say ‘No’ without • If you’re working with an actor who has be involved in the conversation. the fear of a bridge being burned.” changed their name, don’t ask what their name was before their transition. If at any This list is a place to start and will continue It is beaten into the brains of actors that they point they’d like to share that information to grow and deepen as will the conversation. are replaceable. There is a clear difference with you, they will. Your curiosity is not This conversation will be vulnerable. It will be between demanding a high standard of worth their retraumatization. uncomfortable. It also affords us the opportu- professionalism and cultivating an environment nity to open ourselves to an extraordinary where actors are afraid to ask for what they • If you aren’t a person with a lot of community of individuals who are working need, leveraging a competitive artistic non-binary people in your life, using for the growth and progress of our industry. Why you should subscribe to Newcity’s print edition todayNewcity JULY 2018 1 Never miss an issue: Your co eeshop often runs out before you get there, or your lifestyle has changed and you don’t really hang out at co eeshops anymore. 2 You live outside our distribution area but you really want to keep up with the cultural life of Chicago, from art to dance to design to dining and drinking to film to lit to music to theater and comedy and opera and… 3 You want to support our mission and understand the imperative for publications to diversify their revenue sources. Just five dollars a month at Newcity.com/subscribe 58
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