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Original City
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word of chicago
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... you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real...
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by Jeff McMahon |
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Chagall Blue
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The importance of field trips for Chicago school children...
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Cops & Bombers
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In the City of Big Shoulders, the fuzz wear no tights...
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City on the Make
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A literary analysis: "The Secret Faces of Inscrutable Poets in Nelson Algren's Chicago: City on the Make"...
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Nelson Algren's Secret Muse
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The discovery of the hidden poet who deeply influenced Algren's legendary depiction of Chicago. First published in Newcity magazine...
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el espejismo |
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Jeff McMahon is a South Side native who found glory and frustration as a newspaper columnist in California before finding home again. He is a writer whose work has appeared in Chicago's Newcity magazine and the Chicago Journal, a lecturer in writing at the University of Chicago, and the editor of Contrary Magazine.
Visit his previous planet.
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all words copyright © 2001-2003 by Jeff McMahon
Many of these essays began as experimental non-fiction in Professor Janice Knight's Chicago course at the University of Chicago. Thank you to Professor Knight for informing them and providing their occasion. Some have appeared in altered form in Newcity magazine and the Chicago Journal.
Thank you to Nelson Algren for the quote from Chicago: City on the Make:
"Yet once you've come to be a part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies.
But never a lovely so real."
jmcmahon@uchicago.edu
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