“Another Southside” authentically and lucidly brought me back to the Greater Chicago Area where I grew up, reviving memories of similar characters, cultural norms, nuances of places and experiences from young adult years doing business in the city. Being an artist, I appreciated and related to his occasional forays into the intersection of fine art and fraud. From the reading room this afternoon where my mom is just starting this book, I heard “Jim, I gotta tell you – this guy can write”…..and she’s an expert in literature, ancient poetry and such. By now I am familiar with Del Staecker’s writing and style, and this has all the good stuff, the relatability of characters, laughs, deep reflection and everything one could hope for in great storytelling that I had encountered in his previous book “Tard”. Again, I was sorry to run out of book to read with this one.