Reviews of the book continue to pop up around town over the last month and change! Here’s a handy roundup for the curious:<\/p>\n
In South Side Weekly<\/a><\/strong>, writer Max Budovich noted that the book “offers a buffet of places you might want to visit, interesting facts, and memorable moments. It leaves you on your own to piece the map together, which is a welcome challenge.”<\/p>\n Over at LoganSquarist<\/a><\/strong>, \u00a0Ariel Parrella-Aureli talked with contributor Nicholas Ward about his piece, “The Best Burger on the Square.” He has so many smart things to say! Among them this: “Making everything about gentrification misses the forest for the trees of the fact that, like, it\u2019s really hard to [live] in the city, and neighborhoods of color are being dis-invested all the time. So if we are talking about who benefits from what\u2019s been added, we also have to talk about what\u2019s been lost.”<\/p>\n Dan Kelly took a long, thorough, lovely look at the book at Third Coast Review<\/a><\/strong>, concluding, “The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook <\/i>makes an effort to describe the kaleidoscopic sand art project that is the Windy City. Bayne is doing something new here with a skilled and colorful effort to remember the city\u2019s then<\/i> while recording something of the mercurial now<\/i> it currently inhabits.”<\/p>\n And most recently, Gloria Talamantes of The Gate<\/a><\/strong> recapped our cozy reading at Back of the Yards Coffeehouse on November 14, noting: “Each story, unique in its way, reminds us of the nuances that make up Chicago, a city known for its neighborhoods, pizza, yellow (or not so yellow) street lights and segregation.”<\/p>\n Thanks again to everyone across the city for your support. It’s really been a source of wonder and strength for me this fall, and I’m grateful.<\/p>\n Note: The second printing of the book now solidly in hand and is available online\u00a0direct from Belt<\/a>; watch for Black Friday (ugh) discounts coming soon. ALSO, coming up, I’ll be selling books at the <\/i>Hideout Holiday Sale<\/a> on December 16, from 6-9 pm at The Hideout. Come out, have a drink and say hi! And if you know of another holiday sale or event that could use a popup bookseller, please let me know.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reviews of the book continue to pop up around town over the last month and change! Here’s a handy roundup for the curious: In South Side Weekly, writer Max Budovich noted that the book “offers a buffet of places you might want to visit, interesting facts, and memorable moments. It leaves you on your own … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[322,380],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-belt-publishing","tag-chicago-neighborhood-guidebook"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}