A review by alexone1
You Were Never in Chicago by Neil Steinberg
3.0
i think the first thing i have to say is boy oh boy this author has some big internalized homophobia/racism among other things that i generally disagree with him about.
but - it really is a love letter to chicago, about chicago. and im here for that. the book pulled me in because i thought it was going be a really interesting intersection of chicago history with bits of this mans life. turns out its primarily a memoir with chicago history sprinkled in.
its a dense book and it didnt hold my interest all the way throughout but i'm glad to have stumbled on it at the library (it was right next to the david sedaris book i was checking out and it opened by talking about the pride parade, so sure why not give it a shot).
but really, some of it is quite beautiful and did bring me to tears with how obvious it is that steinberg loves chicago, and thus reminds me how much i love chicago.
but - it really is a love letter to chicago, about chicago. and im here for that. the book pulled me in because i thought it was going be a really interesting intersection of chicago history with bits of this mans life. turns out its primarily a memoir with chicago history sprinkled in.
its a dense book and it didnt hold my interest all the way throughout but i'm glad to have stumbled on it at the library (it was right next to the david sedaris book i was checking out and it opened by talking about the pride parade, so sure why not give it a shot).
but really, some of it is quite beautiful and did bring me to tears with how obvious it is that steinberg loves chicago, and thus reminds me how much i love chicago.