The latest news from Eckhartz Press, and a chance to peek into some of the great previous offerings from our humble little publishing company.
Happy birthday!
=Larry Rosenbaum is one of the famous brothers who owned the legendary Flip Side Records locations in Chicago. That's him on the right (brother Carl on the left). Why are we wishing him a happy birthday (August 25)? Let's say that there just might be an upcoming book in this man's future. Details will be coming soon!
Thursday, Sept 5
Crestwood Library 4pm
Thursday, Sept 5
Riverside Library - 7pm
Saturday, Sept 7
Evergreen Park Library 10:30 am
Saturday, Sept 7
Printer’s Row Lit Fest-- 3-6pm
Monday, Sept 9
ELA Area Public Library
Wednesday, September 11
Lake Villa library
=This week in 2017, Mitch Michaels and Ken Churilla were all over the media promoting their book about Mitch's life, Doin' the Cruise. August 31st was a particularly busy one. It included a stop at WGN-TV...
=And a star-studded launch party. Among the luminaries who came out to the launch party...Bernie Tafoya, Barry Butler, Ray Stevens, Matt Bisbee, Leslie Harris, Stan Adams, Pat Cassidy, Catherine Johns, John Landecker and many more.
Joe Jackson vs. Chicago American League Baseball Club
=This week in 2023, David Fletcher was making the rounds talking about his new book Joe Jackson v. Chicago American League Baseball Club. The book is a trial transcript of the Shoeless Joe trial in Milwaukee from 1924. Amazing historical document. One of the shows he appeared on was the Baseball Talk podcast.
=This week in 2006, author Rick Kaempfer wrote about his time as Steve & Garry's producer for the first time ever. A few of these stories later made it into the book The Loop Files.
=One of the contributors to The Loop Files is former Chet Coppock Executive Producer (and later a major sports talk personality himself) Dangerous Dan McNeil. Dan is celebrating a birthday this week (August 27). The cartoon version of Dan (bottom right corner, with red shirt and arms crossed) appeared on the Loop calendar in 1990...
=This week in 2021 (August 29), Paul Banks made an appearance at the Manchester United fan club meeting at Fado's in Chicago. Everyone watched the Man United game, and at halftime Paul spoke to them about his book Transatlantic Passage. It was the earliest Guinness that Eckhartz Press publishers Rick and Dave ever consumed (well before noon).
=This week in 2019 (August 25), Rick Kaempfer appeared on Rick Kogan's WGN Radio show to talk about his book EveryCubEver. At the time, Roger Badesch was working as Kogan's newsman. It was during this show that Roger announced he too was working on a book for Eckhartz Press. That would later turn into The Unplanned Life. (Photo: Rick Kaempfer, Roger Badesch, Rick Kogan)
=Every member of the 1972 White Sox is featured in the Eckhartz Press book Chili Dog MVP. One of them was born this week (August 27) in 1946, former catcher Ed Herrmann. Unfortunately Big Ed passed away in 2013.
=This week in 2017, Lee Kingsmill's book Safe Inside was officially released by Eckhartz Press. We took that opportunity to do a Q&A with Lee. You can read that here. Lee's book later was named an honorable mention winner for the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year.
=Eckhartz Press was asked to publish the literary journal of the Chicago Writers Association, and we have done so four times now. This week in 2023 (August 29), the 4th volume of the book came out.
=One of the contributors to the first volume is celebrating a birthday this week. Happy birthday to NY Times Best Selling author James Finn Garner (August 29)
=The release party for Rich King's book Ike & Me was one for the ages, not only because of it's location (Comiskey Park or whatever it is currently being called), but also because it drew a who's who of Chicago television. One of the luminaries who attended that day was retired WGN-TV news anchor Robert Jordan. He's celebrating a birthday this week (August 31). That's him in the center of the photo flanked on either side by Rich and Ike, and on the corners by Dan Roan and Ryan Baker.
