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Chicago Works

Edited by Laurie Levy

Morton, 229 pages, $14.95 paper

This nifty collection of stories set in and around Chicago, by Chicagoans, bursts with the imagination of many authors who are familiar contributors to this Books section–including Rosellen Brown, Aleksandar Hemon and Achy Obejas–as well as David Michael Kaplan, first-prize winner in the 1999 Nelson Algren Awards.