Zenith City: Stories from Duluth

Publication History

Most of the chapters in this book were previously published elsewhere , and I gratefully acknowledge those publications here. Some essays were revised from their original form for Zenith City. “This Is Duluth!,” “Uncle See-See’s Secret,” and “Joe DiMaggio Turns His Lonely Eyes toward the Girl at  West Third Street” were first published in Whistling Shade. “Beware the Ides of March,” “The Hill,” and “The Grand Piano Smelt” were first published in Lake Superior Magazine. “He Believed Writers Are Made, Not Born,” “For a Moment Dylan Played in Our Shadow,” and “Remembering Satchmo” were first published in the Christian Science Monitor. “Remembering Satchmo” was reprinted in America West Airlines Magazine. “Sinclair Lewis’s Duluth” was first published in Literary Traveler. Quotations of Sinclair Lewis in this essay are from his Minnesota Diary, –, edited by George Killough (University of Idaho Press, ). “Thou Shalt Not Shine” and “Jogging with James Joyce” were first published in Minnesota Monthly. “My Father and the Mobster” and “A Family Informed by Pyloric Stenosis” were first published in Knee Jerk. “Cousin Jean” was first published in North Stone Review. publication history 175 176 | Publication History “Christmas with the Klines” was first published in Mpls. St. Paul Magazine. It was also broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio. “Broxie” was first published in America West Airlines Magazine. “Brotherhood Week in Duluth” was first published in Minnesota Journal of Law and Politics. “A Life Informed by a Lynching,” developed from an essay in the newspaper and a speech delivered before the Forum, was first published in the Los Angeles Times Book Review and the Forum at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. “The Roomer” and “The Unmaking of a Missionary” are reprinted from Michael Fedo, Chronicles of Aunt Hilma and Other East Hillside Swedes (St. Cloud, Minn.: North Star Press, ). ...