An illustrated book set in Chicago bars between 9/11 and The Plague.
A new revised paperback edition with an added story.
"If you let men write books about working in bars, they will talk about people who pissed their pants. And like, not much else. The men in these stories will piss their pants several times. I don't know if they just think that pissing your pants is funny and grunge or if they assume that they have to include every instance of pants-pissing. They will talk about over-serving customers and weird bosses with hoarding problems and that one guy who won't leave and wants to argue with you about nothing. We know these people and they're problematic faves.
They will also think that they're blurring the lines between auto-fiction and the novel form when they're probably just saying exactly what happened through a misogynistic lens and changing some people's names. Neither of these things make for a good book. The protagonist has always just ended things with some woman out of his league or an older female character. Maybe he's violent towards her and glosses over it. Maybe every other man is violent towards his corresponding woman and he thinks he's better than them because he isn't. Not being evil doesn't make you good (or even neutral)." -Ella Dixon from Goodreads, December 7, 2022
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Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
ISBN-13
979-8-9926281-3-5 (9798992628135)
Schweitzer Classification
Dmitry Samarov was born in Moscow, USSR in 1970. He immigrated to the US with his family in 1978. He got in trouble in 1st grade for doodling on his Lenin Red Star pin and hasn't stopped doodling since. After a false start at Parsons School of Design in New York, he graduated with a BFA in painting and printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993.Upon graduation he promptly began driving a cab-first in Boston, then after a time, in Chicago- which eventually led to the publication of his illustrated work memoirs Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and second cabbie book from a press not worth mentioning.Music to My Eyes (Tortoise Books, 2019) is his first non-cabbie-related book.Soviet Stamps (Pictures&Blather, 2020) is the second.All Hack (Pictures&Blather, 2020) is a summation of his cabbie-related work.Old Style (Pictures&Blather, 2021) is his first work of fiction.paint-by-numbers (Pictures&Blather, 2022) is his second.to whom it may concern (Pictures&Blather, 2023) is a collection of new answers to old letters.Making Pictures is How I Talk to the World (Pictures&Blather, 2024) surveys forty years of his art.Since the fall of 2024 he has been illustrating and redesigning public domain novels, starting with Moby Dick, Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt, Bruce Wagner's Marvel Universe, and James Hogg's The Suicide's Grave.He has exhibited his work in all manner of bars, coffeeshops, libraries, andeven the odd gallery (when he's really hard up.)He writes dog portraits and paints book reviews in Chicago, Illinois.You can see more of his work than you'd ever want to at dmitrysamarov.com.
