| At the time I write this novel there are two Chicago news-papers, the Tribune and the Sun-Times, both on what RedKane would call the "Rive Dmite" of the Chicago River.One could write many splendid novels about either ofthem, not all necessarily scurrilous. However, for the purposes of this book I have created athird Chicago paper, the Herald Gazette. located it on the"Rive Gauche" and transferred to its ownership the Unitedof America Building. None of the journalists who work atthis illustrious, ff altogether imaginary, paper are based onactual living human beings in Chicago. If any readers thinkthey see themselves in the sundry characters that inhabitthe Herald Gazette Building, the explanation is either coin-cidence or paranoia. I add this note. not to fend off libel suits, but to remindthe folks who might want to see themselves in a novel thatthey are not nearly as interesting as my imaginary re-porters. Moreover, this is not a novel about Chicago re-porters (though many interesting such novels could bewritten, not all of them scurrilous), but about one man sdesperate flight down the days and down the years. All the other characters are also products of my imagina-tion, as are the events of the story. If this be interpreted as meaning that I think I can createmore interesting Chicago journalists than God has, all I cansay in reply is that God doesn t seem to have been workingvery hard at it lately./ |
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