By The Beachwood BookNotes Division
1. “After my partner showed up and informed me I would be driving the wagon in downtown rush-hour traffic, he directed me to a cafe for his coffee, obviously in no hurry to reach our assignment,” Chicago cop Martin Prieb writes in The Wagon. The brief narrative on the computer explained that a woman was dead, and removal meant we must take her to the morgue. The narrative stated she was in her fifties. That was it. My partner did not speak about the task ahead, though I could not stop thinking about it. The service entrance to the address of our assignment, a high-rise building on Michigan Avenue, was below in the labyrinth of alleys and parking lots off Lower Wacker Drive.”
2. “We have completed the final edits of the book and now we are setting up appearances and interviews to get the word out!” writes former Cub Doug Glanville. “Keep your eyes peeled for The Game from Where I Stand – published by Times Books!”
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See also: “It’s Everything It’s Cracked Up To Be.”
3. “The history and impact of Marina City is examined in a new book coming soon to a bookstore near you,” Steven Dahlman writes at Marina City Online. “Bertrand Goldberg’s Marina City promises to reveal the story of how the architect built his vision in concrete.”
4. The Society of Midland Authors will hold their annual awards dinner on May 11 at the InterContinental Hotel in the Camelot Room.
WBEZ’s Steve Edwards will act as emcee.
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Posted on April 23, 2010