Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image,New

Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image,New

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Despite its roughandtumble image, Chicago has long been identified as a city where books take center stage. In fact, a volume by A. J. Liebling gave the Second City its nickname. Upton Sinclairs The Jungle arose from the midwestern capitals most infamous industry. The great Chicago Fire led to the founding of the Chicago Public Library. The city has fostered writers such as Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Chicagos literary magazines The Little Review and Poetry introduced the world to Eliot, Hemingway, Joyce, and Pound. The citys robust commercial printing industry supported a flourishing culture of the book. With this beautifully produced collection, Chicagos rich literary tradition finally gets its due.Chicago by the Book profiles 101 landmark publications about Chicago from the past 170 years that have helped define the city and its image. Each titlecarefully selected by the Caxton Club, a venerable Chicago bibliophilic organizationis the focus of an illustrated essay by a leading scholar, writer, or bibliophile.Arranged chronologically to show the history of both the city and its books, the essays can be read in order from Mrs. John H. Kinzies 1844 Narrative of the Massacre of Chicago to Sara Paretskys 2015 crime novel Brush Back. Or one can dip in and out, savoring reflections on the arts, sports, crime, race relations, urban planning, politics, and even Mrs. OLearys legendary cow. The selections do not shy from the underside of the city, recognizing that its grit and graft have as much a place in the written imagination as soaring odes and boosterism. As Neil Harris observes in his introduction, Even when Chicagoans celebrate their hearth and home, they do so while acknowledging deepseated flaws. At the same time, this collection heartily reminds us all of what makes Chicago, as Norman Mailer called it, the great American city.With essays from, among others, Ira Berkow, Thomas Dyja, Ann Durkin Keating, Alex Kotlowitz, Toni Preckwinkle, Frank Rich, Don Share, Carl Smith, Regina Taylor, Garry Wills, and William Julius Wilson; and featuring works by Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, Clarence Darrow, Erik Larson, David Mamet, Studs Terkel, Ida B. WellsBarnett, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many more.

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