Personal

The drawings, essays and poems in this book are all written by children and young adults living in the inner-city housing projects of Chicago during the 1990s.

The Chicago Police Department is a mythical and legendary law enforcement unit as well as a closed-door society. This book reveals the officers and their personal stories. The author explores the juxtaposition of work and life for these men and women who don the Chicago Police Star.

A collection of newspaper articles written over a four-year span (1985-1988) exploring the world of the Italian immigrant.

Libushka Brown, a Chicago Native, began her performance career at the age of three--at her father's Christmas party--then went on to spend years as a solo dancer with the Chicago Grand Opera and the Chicago Civic Opera, as well as appear on stage, screen and radio, even authoring two children's books. At the age of 97, she published this memoir.

Short, nonfiction stories written by women survivors of the psychiatric system. Organized into three main sections; When the World Can't Face It's Fear We Get Locked Up, It Doesn't Have to Be Forever, Standing Our Ground: The Political Context of "Madness", women tell stories of their experiences of going through treatment and their lives beyond institutionalization.

Short stories from west side neighborhoods of Chicago. "The force of each writer's vision and language carries you into the living rooms and kitchens where the real folk of the West Side go about the business of living. 'West Side Stories' presents the everyday, the brutal, the glorious."

A collection of works by Charles Joseph Smith a.k.a. "The Linden." Poems, plays, songs, dances, dreams, lists, future plans.

An anthology of various writings by young women dealing with topics pertaining to race, education, suicide, depression, divorce, womanhood, abuse and more.

Poetry, memoirs, short stories and more on the subject of food.

Anthology in the "black and white" series for Outrider Press of fiction, poetry and essays on the multi-faceted topic of freedom.