Ep99 - Kevin Coval | Life and Death of an American Neighborhood

Published: July 14, 2020, 4:30 a.m.

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Kevin Coval is the founding editor of The BreakBeat Poets imprint on Haymarket Books, & Artistic Director of the MacArthur Award-winning cultural organization, \\u201cYoung Chicago Authors\\u201d. In this episode he discusses his book, \\u201cEverything Must Go,\\u201d an illustrated poetic retelling of the tales of Chicago\\u2019s Wicker Park in the late 1990\\u2019s. Though populated by colorful characters and entertaining stories, the book also serves as a template for understanding the process of displacement and reinvention currently reshaping American cities.

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