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1. Richard Parks(1)

1. Review of Crazy '08

   by Richard Parks

   • Published:
     1. Spitball, August 01, 2007
   • Metainfo:
     • 691 words
     • 23.0 inches

   Turn-of-the-century Chicago has proliferated widely in literary document—Carl Sandburg and Chris Ware come to mind as the more singular writerly ambassadors of this time and place. To that list add Cait Murphy, whose Crazy '08 pitches a tent with other of Chi-town's idiosyncratic text-based love songs, with its colorful centennial ballpark jargon, edge-of-the-seat pennant-race plot line, and delightfully obscure microhistoricism.

   
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