My Kind of Town: "The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson" by Joseph Jefferson

Part of living in Chicago, or any major city, is escaping the hustle and bustle as often as you can. Which is the reason that CCLaP's founder Jason Pettus and I--as Jason has written about before--have made a hobby of traveling into the suburbs for library book sales. Ostensibly, Jason is building a fledgling business selling rare and collectible books, and I am trying to build my collection, but the joy of these trips is the small breaks they afford from the cramped swarm of city life. Those...