A Chicago Tavern: A Goat, a Curse, and the American Dream.
Rick Kogan. . . has become our local Boswell, a serendipitous chronicler of the nooks and crannies and curious characters that can turn the very act of living here into an adventure. --Jonathan Alter, Chicago TribuneThe book is slender, like a volume of poetry, and I immediately read it cover to cover. I would say that it is perfect--celebratory and sad, a deft encapsulation of the present and an elegy to the past. --Neil Steinberg, Chicago Sun-TimesIn the book's acknowledgments, Kogan writes, 'Reading the work of all the writers who have, with varying degrees of literary license, told the story of the tavern through the years, reminded me why I got in this business in the first place. There were once poets working for newspapers.' Well, fortunately for us, there still are a few, and Kogan is one of them. --Bob Sirott, WGN RadioThe book is slender, like a volume of poetry, and I immediately read it cover to cover. I would say that it is perfect--celebratory and sad, a deft encapsulation of the present and an elegy to the past. --Neil Steinberg, Chicago Sun-TimesIn the book's acknowledgments, Kogan writes, 'Reading the work of all the writers who have, with varying degrees of literary license, told the story of the tavern through the years, reminded me why I got in this business in the first place. There were once poets working for newspapers.' Well, fortunately for us, there still are a few, and Kogan is one of them. --Bob Sirott, WGN Radio