"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. * * 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' was written in 1963. Dr. King was imprisoned in solitary confinement and began drafting this letter about nonviolent resistance in the margins of a newspaper editorial. Photo is from our Nation of Writers video. #MLKDay #DrMartinLutherKingJr #MartinLutherKing

It’s Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday! We’re offering Poe-themed tours all day to celebrate the master of macabre. Join us on a tour and get 10% off all Poe-related merchandise in our gift shop! * * #EdgarAllanPoe #HappyBirthdayPoe #happybirthday #PoeDay #edgarallanpoequote

Excited for the weekend like... This lil guitar person was drawn by a visitor in our #BobDylanElectric exhibit. Stop by this weekend and leave your own drawings, musings, thoughts inspired by @bobdylan! * * #BobDylanElectric #FridayFeeling #fridayfeels #LilGuitarist

Throwing it back to September when @dessa stopped by to talk her stellar book #MyOwnDevices, which you can (and should!) get where books are sold. Dessa talked about some writers named Dave who had an impact on her writing, notably the approachable writing style of Dave Eggers, who will be here in Chicago January 29. Check out our website to learn more and snag your tickets before they're gone! * * #AWMAuthorTalks #ThrowbackThursday #Dessa #MyOwnDevices #DaveEggers @eggers_at_826 #TheMonkofMokha @mokhtar_alkhanshali

"You that never done nothin' But build to destroy You play with my world Like it's your little toy" —Bob Dylan * * From the record wall in our exhibit Bob Dylan: Electric, we're throwing it back to @bobdylan's 1963 track "Masters of War" on the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. #ThrowbackThursday #BobDylanElectric #BobDylanLyrics #BobDylanArt

It's still hard to believe, but 2018 is over! The end-of-the-year holidays certainly kept us busy, but all those long travels to visit family gave us plenty of time to catch up on some reading. To learn more about the writers and books we read last month, head the Reading Recommendations page on our website. What book did you recently read that you just can't stop talking about? Let us know in the comments! * * #AWMStaffReads #amreading #JustFinishedReading @sam_aye_ahm #SamiraAhmed #GinaApostol #KevinBrockmeier #RonChernow #JMDupont #Mezzo #CharlieHuston #IvelisseRodriguez #PatriciaScarry #JPMiller #DavidSedaris #AdamSternbergh #LeoTolstoy

"Someday, everything is gonna be different When I paint my masterpiece." - @bobdylan * * A visitor to our exhibit #BobDylanElectric left this masterpiece behind, and now we're feeling motivated for the weekend. What masterpiece will you paint (or write or read!) this weekend? * * #BobDylanElectric #BobDylanArt #BobDylanLyrics #FridayFeeling #FridayMotivation

These are the things we did this past month: -hosted five author events -opened our new exhibit #BobDylanElectric -ate waaaaaayy too much Thanksgiving pie -read all of these fantastic books! Check out the Reading Recommendations section of our website for the full list of books and authors. What are you reading these days? Let us know in the comments! * * #AWMStaffReads #amreading #RayBradbury #MaxAllanCollins #ABradSchwartz #FScottFitzgerald #WilliamGibson #JhumpaLahiri #ClaudeMcKay #SaraNovic #NnediOkorafor #CharlesSimic #MarkStrand #LuisAlbertoUrrea

"Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared." * Happy birthday @madeleinelengle! Thank your spreading light through the darkness with your words, stories, and kindness. We found this tesseract in our interactive Featured Works touchscreen table! #LEngle100

"Rock & Roll will live forever." 🤘 * * A talented visitor left this wonderful doodle of @bobdylan with his perfectly unkempt hair and cool, rock'n'roll shades in our exhibit #BobDylanElectric. Share your photos, drawings, and stories of what Bob Dylan's lyrics mean to you and tag us with #BobDylanElectric for a chance to win tickets to Saturday's event with #RobbieFulks, a limited-edition exhibit poster, whiskey from @heavensdoorwhiskey and an AWM membership! * * #BobDylanElectric #BobDylan #BobDylanArt #RockAndRoll #rockandrollwillneverdie🤘