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  • You Were Never in Chicago

    Series series Chicago Visions and Revisions
    This "rollicking newspaperman's memoir" offers a personal tour of Chicago's cultural history and makes "a strong case for Second City exceptionalism" ( The New York Times).In 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the "Second City." From the skyline to garbage collection, nothing escaped Liebling's withering gaze. Among the outraged responses ... Read more

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  • Every Goddamn Day

    A Highly Selective, Definitely Opinionated, and Alternatingly Humorous and Heartbreaking Historical Tour of Chicago

    A daily celebration of Chicago's history, both known and obscure, and always entertaining.Every day in Chicago is a day to remember. In a city so rich with history, every day is the anniversary of some storied historical or cultural moment, whether it's the dedication of the Pablo Picasso sculpture downtown on August 15, or the arrest of Rod Blagojevich at his Ravenswood home on December 9, or a ... Read more

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  • Drunkard

    A Hard-Drinking Life

    "A compelling read, sad and wistful and breathtakingly forthright."—Chicago MagazineChicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg loved his job, his wife, and his two young sons. But he also loved to drink. Drunkard is an unflinchingly honest account of one man's descent into alcoholism and his ambivalent struggle to embrace sobriety. Sentenced to an outpatient rehab program, Steinberg discovers that ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Bodyology - The Curious Science of Our Bodies

    Bodyology: The Curious Science of the Human BodyEver wondered what it's really like to be struck by lightning — what happens to your skin, nerves, heart rhythm, and brain in a split second? What it means to lose your sense of smell (anosmia), why it can vanish after illness or injury, and what recovery can look like? Whether we'll ever find a genuine cure for baldness and hair loss? Or how a ... Read more

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  • Out of the Wreck I Rise

    A Literary Companion to Recovery

    “There’s still time to change things.”—Siri Hustvedt, The Blazing WorldAddiction is easy to fall into and hard to escape. It destroys the lives of individuals, and has a devastating cost to society. The National Institute of Health estimates seventeen million adults in the United States are alcoholics or have a serious problem with alcohol. At the same time, the country is seeing entire ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Art of Backscratching in Chicago

    Driving with Ed McElroy

    Series series Chicago Shorts
    “Ed McElroy, clear of eye, sound of mind, and eighty-three years of age . . . guides his black Cadillac down Halsted Street.” So begins longtime Chicago journalist Neil Steinberg’s nuanced homage to Ed McElroy: an old-school, behind-the-scenes backscratcher who has driven the rich, powerful, and well-connected around the city, doing favors and calling them in, for decades. Helping a young ... Read more

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  • The Art of Backscratching in Chicago

    Driving with Ed McElroy

    Series series Chicago Shorts
    “Ed McElroy, clear of eye, sound of mind, and eighty-three years of age . . . guides his black Cadillac down Halsted Street.” So begins longtime Chicago journalist Neil Steinberg’s nuanced homage to Ed McElroy: an old-school, behind-the-scenes backscratcher who has driven the rich, powerful, and well-connected around the city, doing favors and calling them in, for decades. Helping a young ... Read more

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    America, 1927

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    **A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy BookA GoodReads Reader's ChoiceIn One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life.**The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth century: on May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first man to cross the Atlantic by plane ... Read more

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    Gentle, No-Tears, Sleep Solutions for Parents of Newborns to Five-Year-Olds

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