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Dime stories /

A collection of weekly columns written from March 2012 through January 2014 for the Chicago free alternative newspaper Newcity, each accompanied by an original work of his art.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fitzpatrick, Tony, 1958-
Other Authors: Dyja, Thomas (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : Curbside Splendor Publishing, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Fitzpatrick, Tony, > 1958- > Themes, motives.
Chicago (Ill.) > In art.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Thomas Dyja
  • For the birds
  • The luck of the Irish
  • The cultural crescent
  • The ascension of Crazy Frank in the big world
  • Mr. Chooch
  • Doing it for the devils
  • The relentless wisdom of Anthony Potenzo
  • Lunch lady
  • Body of work
  • Democracy in Chicago
  • The Monday King
  • Rag on my head
  • Studs Terkel, witness to a century
  • The watchers
  • My pony drugs
  • Razor Park
  • The conquerors
  • The atomic child
  • The misfits
  • Little Egypt
  • Atlantic City
  • The sky at Ohio
  • Man with a gun
  • Stella
  • The tool
  • Hud's girl
  • Ohio: further mysteries of a battleground state
  • The path of thieves
  • Asshopper
  • Chicago snowman
  • The sky in Chicago
  • The jazz baroness
  • Send in the clowns
  • The year of the gun
  • The boozefighters
  • The Atomic King of nothing
  • For those in love
  • Just a regular slob
  • The owls among us
  • The relentless wisdom of Anthony Potenzo, volume 2
  • Pink lady
  • Godspeed Roger Ebert
  • For the bad men who built our city
  • The infernal nod machine of Hollywood Boulevard
  • Songbird for Nelson Algren
  • A day and night in Tokyo
  • The magic of nature
  • The sad business of dreams
  • Our fear of Gay Americans
  • Lessons from the street where I live
  • The baby devils
  • The orange spider
  • the archer
  • The black swans
  • Among the beasts
  • The art racket
  • An autumn dream of blue jays
  • A black angel
  • Who killed Cock Robin?
  • The draft horses
  • Drugstore girl on Halloween
  • So long Lou
  • Nature for reals
  • Talking to drunk girls
  • A Christmas story
  • Memories of the limelight
  • The many lives of Art Shay
  • The wonder of birds
  • "Walk on the wild side" changed everything
  • High hopes and faint praise
  • Hooray for Pedro!
  • Tony world
  • Some etiquette tips from Tony
  • The art world: an occupied one-percent country
  • A night in Tokyo
  • The chicken store
  • Nature calls
  • Donald Chump
  • the relentless wisdom of Anthony Potenzo, volume 3: the patio
  • Murder city
  • Welcome to Dystopia!
  • Of hobos, card games, and Bughouse Square
  • A tribute to Jane Byrne
  • Christmas on acid
  • Motor gypsies at the Greyhound terminal
  • Godspeed, Mr. Cub.