World Famous Comics: The Rise & Fall of the Dil Pickle: Jazz-Age Chicago's Wildest & Most Outrageously Creative Hobohemian Nightspot
The Rise & Fall of the Dil Pickle: Jazz-Age Chicago's Wildest & Most Outrageously Creative Hobohemian Nightspot
From: Charles H Kerr Publishing Publisher: Charles H Kerr Publishing Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Charles H Kerr Publishing Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 186 Publication Date: January 01, 2003
Product Description: What do Lucy Parsons, Clarence Darrow, Carl Sandburg, Mary MacLane, Lawrence Lipton, Elizabeth Davis (Queen of the Hoboes), Jun Fujita, Sherwood Anderson, Ralph Chaplin, Katherine Dunham, Djuna Barnes, Kenneth Rexroth, Sam Dolgoff, and Slim Brundage have in common? They were all Dil Picklers! Founded in 1914 by former Wobbly Jack Jones, Irish revolutionist Jim Larkin, and a group of fantastic IWW-oriented Bughouse Square hobos and soapboxers, the Dil Pickle in just a few years was widely recognized as the wildest, most playful, most creative, and most radical nightspot in the known universe - especially after Dr. Ben Reitman joined the club in 1917. In this book, Rosemont has collected forty-one reminiscences of the Dil Pickle by poets, artists, journalists, novelists, hobos, scholars, anarchist, wobblies, and other assorted radicals and oddballs. Among them are accounts by the club's founders, habitues, visitors,and critics. Rosemont's introduction provides the fullest account so far of the Dil Pickle's chaotic history, and goes on to explore the role of the Picklers in the arts and the 'Chicago Renaissance', along with its meaning(s) for our own troubled times.
A View into a Lost Chicago This isn't just a collection of documents related to an important and often-overlooked Chicago institution: it's a look into a whole lost world. Chicago's Towertown area in the early twentieth century was a fantastic bohemia of leftist radicals, poets, social reformers and vagabonds of all sorts, a kind of grittier, heartland version of lower Manhattan. All that's gone now, paved over with slick shopping venues and high-end condos. The sole survivor of that era is the Newberry Library, where Franklin Rosemont seems to have spent years researching this slim, concentrated collection. If you're interested in this all-but forgotten part of Chicago's history, this is a great place to start.
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