Smokestacks & Skyscrapers: An Anthology of Chicago Writing

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The spirit of a place is most aptly captured by its artists. Writers in particular have long been fascinated with the city of Chicago. "Smokestacks & Skyscapers," a new anthology, is the most comprehensive collection of Chicago writing to date. Featuring more than seventy authors who have written on the city or are Chicagoans themselves, this edition includes such well-known names as Carl Sandburg, Jane Addams, Nelson Algren, Saul Bellows, Upton Sinclair, Gewndolyn Brooks, and Richard Wright, as well as contemporary voices like Maxine Chernoff, Sandra Cisneros, and David Mamet. Selections are drawn from novels, short stories, poetry, plays, and memoirs. The first collection of its kind since 1952, this anthology not only places Chicago writing in its literary context but also finds through its many voices the heart of this complex, vigorous, wonderfully paradoxical city.
from Father Marquette's journal / Jacques Marquette, S.J. --
"Address at the Chicago Council" / Metea --
from Wau-Bun : the "early day" in the North-West / Juliette Kinzie --
"Fort Dearborn, Chicago" ; "Chicago" / Benjamin Franklin Taylor --
"The massacre of Fort Dearborn at Chicago" / Simon Pokagon --
"Professor Lowell in Chicago" / Eugene Field --
from A poet's life / Harriet Monroe --
from With the procession / Henry Blake Fuller --
from Twenty years at Hull-House / Jane Addams --
from The Rose of Dutcher's Coolly / Hamlin Garland --
from The precipice / Elia Peattie --
from Artie / George Ade --
"The American family" / Finley Peter Dunne --
from The memoirs of an American citizen / Robert Herrick. "The hill" ; "Fiddler Jones" ; "Petit, the poet" ; "Pauline Barrett" ; "Hannah Armstrong" ; Lucinda Matlock" / Edgar Lee Masters --
from An autobiography / Frank Lloyd Wright --
from Sister Carrie / Theodore Dreiser --
from The song of the lark / Willa Cather --
"The parent's assistant" / Edith Wyatt --
"For what?" / Sherwood Anderson --
"Chicago" ; "They will say" ; "Halsted street car" ; "Graceland" ; "Skyscraper" / Carl Sandburg --
from The jungle / Upton Sinclair --
"Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight " ; "General William Booth enters into heaven" / Vachel Lindsay --
"The literary capital of the United States" / H.L. Mencken --
from How to write short stories / Ring Lardner --
from Born in a bookshop / Vincent Starrett --
"The frog and the puddle" / Edna Ferber --
"World conquerors" / Ben Hecht. "Studs" / James T. Farrell --
"Young writer remembering Chicago" / Albert Halper --
from Compulsion / Meyer Levin --
from Native son / Richard Wright --
from Chicago : city on the make / Nelson Algren --
"The beach umbrella" / Cyrus Colter --
from Knock on any door / Willard Motley --
from Division Street / Studs Terkel --
"The evergreen" ; "Poetry workshop " / John Frederick Nims --
"The fly" ; "The conscientious objector" ; "The first time" ; "Homewreck" / Karl Shapiro --
from Humboldt's gift / Saul Bellow --
"A bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi" ; "The last quatrain of the ballad of Emmett Till" ; "The Chicago defender sends a man to Little Rock" ; "The Chicago Picasso" ; "Uncle Seagram" ; "White girls are peculiar people" / Gwendolyn Brooks --
"The journal of a wife beater" / Harry Mark Petrakis --
"Packages" / Richard Stern --
"The striders" ; "Epitaph on a street dog" ; "Take care" ; "Chicago zen" ; "The black hen" / A.K. Ramanujan --
from A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry --
from Boss / Mike Royko --
"Souls in motion" / Leon Forrest. "News notes, 1970" ; "Variations for a summer evening" / Michael Anania --
"Blues for Leon Forrest" ; "Wind" ; "Koko Taylor" / Sterling Plumpp --
"Dangling man" / Philip Caputo --
"Where is the grease of yesteryear?" / Daniel Pinkwater --
"Pet milk" / Stuart Dybek --
from A kiss is still a kiss / Roger Ebert --
"Wake-up niggers" ; "One sided shoot-out" ; "Gwendolyn Brooks : distinctive and proud at 77" ; "A calling" / Haki R. Madhubuti --
"How I got ovah" ; "How I got ovah II/it is deep II" / Carolyn Rodgers --
from Seven moves / Carol Anshaw --
from Saigon, Illinois / Paul Hoover --
"Prologue : American twilight" ; "Businessmen" ; "Cold" ; "Epilogue" / Daivd Mamet --
"Letter back to Oregon / Albert Goldbarth --
"Baseball fever" / Tony Ardizzone --
"The kingdom" ; "Tree of heaven" ; "One chance" / Barry Silesky
"Sandburg to Smith, Smith to Sandburg" ; "The good samaritan" ; "My father's coat" / Marc Smith --
"Transformable prophecy" ; "Totem : African-American Woman Guild" ; "The trick is not to think : on the art of ballooning" / Angela Jackson --
"Finalogy" / James McManus. "Out of season" / Neil Tesser --
"Bop" / Maxine Chernoff --
"Loverboys" / Ana Castillo --
"When Jesus walked" ; "Soon it's robots" / Carlos Cumpian --
"Barbie-Q" / Sandra Cisneros --
"Furious versions" / Li-Young Lee --
"Horse and cradle" ; "Sond for the endless others" / Mark Turcotte --
"Wheatfield under clouded sky" ; "Smokestacks, Chicago" / Campbell McGrath.