Eckhartz Everyday

 *Today is the birthday of Eckhartz Press author Ann Wilson, writer of the excellent memoir In Small Boxes...

Eckhartz Everyday

 *Two Eckhartz Press books staged their launch parties on this day. In 2016 Ann Wilson launched her memoir/novel In Small Boxes. In 2018, Chet Coppock launched his book Your Dime My Dance Floor. Naturally Dave and I were there for both events...

Eckhartz Everyday

 

*May 4, 1970 was the Kent State Massacre. Eckhartz Press author Mitch Michaels was actually there that day, and told the story from his perspective in the pages of his book Doin the Cruise.

*Today is George Will's birthday. George is a political commentator, yes, but he's also a big Cubs fan, and an owner of a copy of EveryCubEver. (Photo)

*On this day in 2018, Eckhartz Press author Tom Weinberg (Chasing the Lost City) appeared on WTTW's Chicago Tonight. See more about that here.

*Today is novelist Jim Korkoris' birthday. Jim is a big fan of the Eckhartz Press book In Small Boxes. Here's what he said about it: At times, poignant, sad and very funny. A wonderfully unique coming of age story. We will all see pieces of ourselves and our lives in this book.

Eckhartz Everyday

*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.