*On this day in 2014, Eckhartz Press author Joel Daly made an appearance at the Beverly Arts Center in Chicago to do a Q&A in front of a live audience. More photos from that day are here.
*On this day in 2018, Eckhartz Press author Todd "Fritz" Schneider (Gruen Weiss Vor) was thrown a going away party. He and his wife Kathryn moved to San Diego.
*On this day in 1933, Budweiser introduced the Clydesdales. Eckhartz Press co-founder David Stern later read to them at the Cubsessions book launch party at Murphy's Pub in Wrigleyville.
*Author Tim Bascomb released one of his books on this day in 2020. He previously gushed over the Eckhartz Press book In Small Boxes. This is what he wrote about Ann R. Wilson's debut work...
Here, in an honest sensitive voice, Ann Wilson recalls being yanked out of her 1970’s teenage life in Western Springs, Illinois, when her dynamic architect father is assigned to a two-year project in Hong Kong, transplanting the family. ‘You’re afraid,’ he tells her on their first night in the new vertical city with its teetering apartment buildings and rickety bamboo scaffolding. ‘Of what?’ she asks, and he mumbles, ‘Of the unknown.’ Little does this American teenager know how much her father will become that ‘unknown.’ Wilson looks back and chronicles it all in brave, vivid prose—not just the strange flavors and sounds, but the unanticipated changes in herself and the impact Hong Kong ultimately has on her family.
