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Thursday, January 05, 2023
The Eckhartz Book Shelf: 1001 Train Rides in Chicago
The best thing about being published by Eckhartz Press is that your book will never go out of print. This book, 1001 Train Rides in Chicago by Richard Reeder, came out in 2018.
Nearly a century has passed since Ben Hecht wrote the last of his 1001 Afternoon in Chicago columns for the Chicago Daily News in the early 1920s. Now in 2018, Richard Reeder pays literary homage to Hecht in 1001 Train Rides in Chicago, sixty-four short fiction vignettes of ordinary people who ride the eight rail lines of the CTA. Reeder creatively weaves a written social tapestry of contemporary Chicago depicting its heterogeneous population and diverse neighborhoods. Leonid Osseny’s illustrations add a striking impressionistic dimension to the book.
