John Lithgow chats about his new political protest book

Posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Actor John Lithgow has officially thrown himself into the political fray.

While in the past, his involvement was just artistic — playing Winston Churchill in The Crown and Bill Clinton on Broadway — he recently released a book of protest poetry and art called Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse.

Lithgow chatted with The Hill about the book, which came out Tuesday, and why he finally decided to take a partisan stand.

And he’s also in the New York Times’s By The Book feature this week, chatting about what’s on his nightstand, what it’s like to record an audiobook (in a word: exhausting), and other bookish topics.