Royko: A Life In Print MG_Gift_Guide Cut loose from the anxiety

Cut loose from the anxiety of insomnia

and who stole it from whom

and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age

she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts

Royko: A Life In Print MG_Gift_Guide Cut loose from the anxietyWith the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko was a Chicago institution who became, in Jimmy Breslin's words, "the best journalist of his time." Royko was by all accounts a difficult man, who would chew out his assistants every morning and retire to the Billy Goat Tavern every night. But his writing was magic. No one captured Chicago like Mike Royko. No one wrote with his honesty, his toughness, his passion,