Wicker Park Press publishes thought provoking books in the areas of fiction, satire, photography, art and architecture, history, and gender studies. As an independent publisher since 2002, it has been our goal to publish books that defy easy categorization.
We strive for originality in content, and to push the boundaries of the subjects we publish in.
Our books include Amazon Girls Handbook by Becky Thacker
The Rebellion of the Beasts: Or, The Ass is Dead! Long Live the Ass!!! by Leigh Hunt
The Lords of Folly: A Novel by Gene Logsdon
Water Tanks of Chicago: A Vanishing Urban Legacy by Larry W Green ,
and the forthcoming...
At Maxwell Street: Chicago’s Historic Marketplace Recalled in Words and Photographs, complied by Tom Palazzolo .
Wicker Park Press was founded in 2002 by Eric Lincoln Miller .
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WATER
TANKS OF CHICAGO
A Vanishing Urban Legacy
Photographs By Larry Green
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These
are Chicago's water tanks. They are popularly known as water towers,
but they are actually water tanks, and you will find them dotted
throughout the municipal landscape. They are a fascinating part
of Chicago history and one of the city's unique architectural
symbols. They are a monument to the position the city occupies
on the architectural map. You can see them overlooking, with silent
observation, everyday life in the metropolis.
—Larry
W. Green
So
begins Larry W. Green's classic testament to the water tanks of
Chicago, a true vanishing urban legacy. Assembled in these pages
are Green's photographs and paintings of the majestic and thoroughly
distinctive Chicago water tanks in their natural urban environment.
Green brings his artistic vision to bear on the rooftop water
tanks of Chicago, and he allows the tanks to speak for themselves
in his vivid representations. There is a stark beauty to these
lonely structures, and they speak eloquently to an industrial
past that has shaped the international city we know today. Read
this book, see the pictures here, and you will realize that these
splendid water tanks are one important element that makes this
city great. The magnificent water tanks need to be preserved as
landmarks for future generations, and the art of Larry Green makes
you see this plain fact loud and clear.
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A
brilliantly comic novel set in mid-20th century America. Gene
Logsdon's The Lords of Folly: A Novel tells
the story of a time and place long gone, of eccentric characters
and old-time religion. The setting is rural Minnesota in the
early 1950s, where a group of seminarians make their way to
Ascension Seminary in Shakopee to complete their education
as Oblates of St. Joseph. The young men question everything
about the lives they lead studying for priesthood.
The
protagonist, Blaise, changes the spelling of his name to Blaze,
and he and his friends, Gabe and Fen, lead a band of brothers
on a series of mischievous adventures. One exasperated friar
dubs them "the Sonuvabitchen' Davy Crockett Boys."
Underneath the mayhem and merriment the SBDC boys cultivate,
lies a darker world of doubt and bewilderment about sex and
sanity. What should they really be doing with their lives,
they ask each other nervously. It is the resolution of that
question- that is, who the hell is sane in this crazy world?
- that brings their adventures to a surprising and triumphant
conclusion.
This
novel was inspired by Logsdon's ten years as a seminarian.
Following the lively adventures of the SBDC boys, we encounter
a rogue's gallery of colorful characters and religious situations.
Logsdon has cobbled together a rollicking narrative that is
reminiscent of such American originals as Kurt Vonnegut and
Joseph Heller.
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THE
LORDS OF FOLLY
A Novel
By Gene
Logsdon
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