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"Whether you need something for the commute or a fanciful tale to get your head out of reality, find it all in this literary tribute to the humble bathroom."

"Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory starts in an ice cream truck and ends at an absinthe bar. From crud rock parties to the Billy Graham Crusade, from Digital Underground to the MLA convention, the book follows Mickey's career as a college writing instructor through his side jobs as an ice cream man, stand-up comedian, haunted house character and horribly inept house sitter. The jobs begin out of financial necessity, but become more of a diversion, and almost an obsession, as Mickey discovers what he wants to do with his life, and then what he wants to do next."

John Litweiler was a writer-editor of Encyclopaedia Brittanica and Down Beat and has written program notes, articles, and reviews in the Chicago Sun-Times, Tribune, and Reader, New York Times Book Review, Jazz Monthly, Jazz Times, www.pointofdeparture.org, etc. He also wrote the acclaimed critical history The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958 and the biography Ornette Coleman: A Harmolodic Life. -Taken from Goodbaitbooks.com

Poetry is a poetic journal founded in 1912 by Harriet Moore.

"This compilation of Chicago working class poems is reminiscent of Sandburg's Windy City years in its big shoulder curbside observation. If you had just entered the pearly gates of heaven Lee's poetry would be there, but you'd find this book, a halo with dreams, on heaven's train tracks contemplating jumping the ledge and burning all the way down like a Parliament light.

Veteran reporter and journalism professor Bob McClory tells the story of Father Michael Pfleger, the controversial, activist pastor of St. Sabina's Catholic Church in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood--and one of the few white men (let alone priests) to be the undisputed leader of an African-American religious community.

Each page has a phrase set in large type of the form "X and Y" or "X, Y, and Z," without punctuation or spacing. The author appears to be an instructor at UIC.

A collection of paintings by artist Andy Paczos, dealing largely with urban and industrial landscapes.

The Access Living Writing Group of 2009 shares their short stories and poems.

Catalog for an exhibition of works by German-born painter Paul Kelpe at the Valerie Carberry Gallery, Sept. 8-Oct. 27, 2007. Kelpe, devoted to geometric abstract painting, was resident in Chicago during 1925-26 and 1931-35. The seventeen works in the exhibition are mainly oil and watercolor. Includes interpretive essay by art history professor Susan Weininger of Roosevelt University.