Author Archives: Richard Guzman
Defiant Acts
This article is part of two large series, one on CHICAGO WRITERS, and one on BLACK WRITERS. Most of these come from two of my Chicago books—Smokestacks and Skyscrapers (with David Starkey) or Black Writing from Chicago, and there’s some … Continue reading
Cleo and Jimmy: A Note on James T. Farrell
This article is part of a long series on Chicago writers, most of which David Starkey and I put into our anthology of Chicago writing titled Smokestacks and Skyscrapers. The complete list of writers can be found Here. Also, go … Continue reading
Is Disneyland Worth It?
On the auspicious sounding date of January 1st 2000 a fairly famous book on the Walt Disney empire was published. Called Deconstructing Disney, it used the literary technique of deconstruction to look mainly at Disney films from 1937’s Snow White to … Continue reading →