Smokestacks & Skyscrapers: An Anthology of Chicago Writing

by David Starkey

Book Overview

An anthology of short stories, novels, memoirs, plays, poetry, and essays includes such noted writers as Saul Bellow, Theodore Dreiser, Jane Addams, Carl Sandburg, Upton Sinclair, Edna Ferber,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0829410139
• ISBN13: 9780829410136
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Loyola Press
• Length: 538 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

using it for a class

this book has been insightfull. it gives some good information about the authors and some interesting connections to Chicago.

a most awesome collection

it is about time that a new anthology of america's true city of letters was published. this collection covers the biggest names in chicago writing (or any literature period) to the moer obscure authors. it's all here, novel extracts, poems, memoirs, essays, articles, stories, drama... and there is so much more to chicago style writing than what is in this collection, as is pointed out in the afterward. but this is an excellent place to start. i highly recommend this collection to everyone, and i think that those who love chicago or live in chicago should be required to read it.

as chicago as wabash avenue

this collection really captures the essence of chicago. the selections are top notch. today i toured the stockyards