![]() When I got my hands on a copy, Hog Butcher blew me away as much as Trumbull Park did. He noted how “shockingly relevant” the book remained and also that Fair-who was born in Chicago in 1932, but moved to Finland in the 70s in disgust at the bigotry he faced as a Black man in the States-“walked the walk about ditching the US.” ![]() Compelling and heartbreaking story.”Īnother Twitter friend, Rudy Faust, hopped in to add that he had worked on the reissue before he left NUP. “Set in ’60s, police shoot & kill a young man they think is a fleeing burglar, but he’s actually a high school b-ball player” Needham explained. So I am also thrilled to say that Tom Needham, a Chicago lawyer, replied, “Here’s another excellent but under appreciated Chicago book: Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair (1966)” with a photograph of the book in question in its 2014 reissue by Northwestern University Press. Twitter, as everybody knows, can be a dumpster fire, but it can also be a source of knowledge and community. ![]() It’s maybe the best Chicago novel ever written.” I had been reading the book as part of my work as a member of that year’s nominating committee for the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, and I’m thrilled to say that Brown has now been inducted. ![]() Back in August of 2020, I tweeted: “Why aren’t more people reading TRUMBULL PARK by Frank London Brown? About black families integrating a housing project in the 1950s? It should be taught in high school. ![]()
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