Calling all music lovers! Join us for 33 1/3 Classic Albums - a series celebrating our love of the perfect album. 33 1/3 is a series of short books about popular music, each focusing on an iconic individual album that occupies a specific place in music history. Meet the authors who took on these seminal records and bring your questions.

He is known as the Mark Twain of American songwriting, a man who transformed the everyday happenings of regular people into plainly profound statements on war, industrialization, religion, and the human condition. Marking the 50th anniversary of the album's release, John Prine chronicles the legendary singer-songwriter's Middle American provenance, and his remarkable ascent from singing mailman to celebrated son of Chicago. Through original interviews, exhaustive research, and incisive commentary, author Erin Osmon paints an in-depth portrait of the people, places, and experiences that inspired Prine's landmark debut.

Erin Osmon is a Midwest native and a veteran of Chicago newsrooms whose work appears in Uncut, No Depression, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Billboard, The Guardian, and many other publications. She teaches music journalism, writing, reporting and digital at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School, USA. Her debut book, Jason Molina: Riding with the Ghost (2017), was named a Best Music Book of 2017 by Pitchfork.

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This event is presented in partnership by Arlington Heights Memorial Library, Glenview Public Library and Northbrook Public Library