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The most Chicago thing ever in the Studs Lonigan Trilogy: a potbelly on a man is referred to as “having an alderman.”
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Levi Stahl
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Editor of The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany and The Daily Sherlock Holmes. Marketing Director at the University of Chicago Press. Board member of the Uptown People’s Law Center.
⟳ Репост от Levi Stahl
Issue 21 of my newsletter, This, Not That, is out! It covers the Aeneid, the Harryhausen film of Jason and the Argonauts, the Sirens from O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and (bonus book rec!) Zachary Mason’s The Lost Books of the Odyssey.
Issue 21: “Sing to me, muse, of the man. No, not that man. Maybe a different one this time.”As someone who has a professional stake in sales of the Odyssey, I can’t complain overmuch about how it has dominated cultural conversation since the arrival of Christopher Nolan’s film version. I dou...this-not-that.ghost.io
⟳ Репост от Levi Stahl
Have long heard of when Otto Penzler brought Patricia Highsmith to NYC for signing events but never seen a flier for one til just now