One Book, One Chicago's 2015–2016 Season Is Under Way
Readers of The Third Coast will gain insight into what was happening in Chicago from the end of World War II to 1960 and will see how postwar Chicago's influence extended beyond the city to America as a whole.
A wonderful lineup of walking tours, film screenings, presentations, and other events relating to the book and theme will take place through April 2016.
Read the Book
Check out a copy from the Chicago Public Library.
Log in to the Chicago Public Library website with your library card and PIN and read online. The Third Coast has been broken down into five parts and will be released sequentially.
Look for a copy when you're riding the CTA train. Chicago Ideas, through the Books on the L program, is putting copies of The Third Coast on the trains for riders to take, read, and return.If you want to buy a copy, consider supporting a nearby independent bookstore.
Further Reading
Once you finish reading The Third Coast, consider one of the following theme-related fiction and poetry titles recommended by One Book, One Chicago:
- A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
- Chicago: City on the Make by Nelson Algren
- In the Mecca by Gwendolyn Brooks
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
- Trumbull Park by Frank London Brown
If you're a nonfiction fan, check out these recommended titles:
- Along the Streets of Bronzeville by Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach
- America Day by Day by Simone de Beauvoir
- American Pharaoh by Adam Cohen
- Art for the People by Heather Becker
- Bigger, Brighter, Louder by Chris Jones
- Blueprint for Disaster by D. Bradford Hunt
- Can't Be Satisfied by Robert Gordon
- Chicago Then and Now by Elizabeth McNulty
- Death of Innocence by Mamie Till-Mobley
- Gwendolyn Brooks by Martha E. Rhynes
- Mies van der Rohe by Franz Schulze
- Moholy-Nagy by Richard Kostelanetz
- Nature's Metropolis by William Cronon
- Selling the Race by Adam Green
- Something Wonderful Right Away by Jeffrey Sweet
- Space Is the Place by John F. Szwed
- Spinning Blues Into Gold by Nadine Cohodas
- Studs Terkel's Chicago by Studs Terkel
- Sullivanesque by Ronald E. Schmitt
- The Chicago School of Architecture by Carl W. Condit
- The Romance of Commerce and Culture by James Sloan Allen
- You Were Never in Chicago by Neil Steinberg
More Cool Stuff
Pick up a free theme button (see photo above) at the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 South State Street, Chicago.
CHIRP Radio has put together a playlist of music from The Third Coast.
The Studs Terkel Radio Archive has created a playlist of radio interviews conducted by Studs Terkel (whom you will read about in The Third Coast).
To learn more, please visit One Book, One Chicago online.