Posts Tagged ‘ Chicago ’

Riding The Rails – September 1971

May 10, 2012
Riding The Rails – September 1971

Harry S. has been a tugboat pilot, a stockbroker, and a restaurant owner in Barcelona, Spain. He was bornĀ in 1951 in Norwalk, Connecticut, and raised there until he was 15 when he and his family moved to Chicago. He is very slowly writing a book about the experiences of his salad days. I went to a small New England college, Williams, only a few miles from North Adams, Massachusetts. But, you see, mister, there was a girl going to the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence who I...

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15 Books That Rocked My World – 1972-1984

November 29, 2011
15 Books That Rocked My World – 1972-1984

Jason W. is a reporter for a metropolitan newspaper in the Midwest. He and his wife also own a yarn shop. Their children are “progressive.” I grew up reading a lot, and indiscriminately. Lots of Reader’s Digest condensed books, comics, some classics I didn’t understand at the age I read them. Wuthering Heights springs to mind. Here is a list, somewhat random in order, I know, of books that affected me...

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