Chuck Adams (left) led the next panel on Spiritual Journeys: Recapturing the American Dream. Featured authors included Tony O'Neill, author of Hero of the Underground and Down & Out on Murder Mile...

Chuck Adams (left) led the next panel on Spiritual Journeys: Recapturing the American Dream. Featured authors included Tony O’Neill, author of Hero of the Underground and Down & Out on Murder Mile…

Featured in the second panel of the day, Robert Olen Butler on fiction in short takes. Bob read delightful short takes from his newest masterpiece, Intercourse
... along with Jack Fuller, retired publisher and editor of the Chicago Tribune, whose new novel Abbeville is about the failed dreams of generations of Americans