num_pages: 186
description: Cultural Writing. Founded in 1914 by former Wobbly Jack Jones, Irish revolutionist Jim Larkin, and a group of IWW-oriented Bughouse Square hobos and soapboxers, the Dil Pickle in just a few years was widely recognized as the wildest, most playful, most creative, and most radical nightspot in the known universe--especially after Dr. Ben Reitman (Emma Goldman's former lover and press agent) joined the club in 1917. In this book--the first ever devoted to one of this country's most colorful and best-loved counter-institutions--Franklin Rosemont has collected forty-one reminiscences of the Dil Pickle by poets, artists, journalists, novelists, hobos, scholars, anarchists, wobblies, and other assorted radicals and oddballs.
language: English
title: The Rise and Fall of the Dil Pickle
titlecomplete: The Rise and Fall of the Dil Pickle
characters: Ralph Chaplin, Clarence Darrow, Mary MacLane, Kenneth Rexroth, Katherine Dunham, Djuna Barnes, Sherwood Anderson, Carl Sandburg, Elizabeth Davis (Queen of the Hoboes), Slim Brundage, Sam Dolgoff, Lawrence Lipton, Lucy Parsons, Jun Fujita
genres: History
ratings_count: 10
places: The United States of America
publisher: Charles H. Kerr (Chicago)