Richard S. Post's Blog
November 12, 2014
New book coming
My first Industrial Espionage book, Above the Bottom Line, is in final editing and should be available after the new year. The web site for it will be up soon along with some excerpts and pre-release reviews.
This is the first of a new series of books with stories about the cases handled by Wade Davis, ex-CIA clandestine services officer, now private investigator.
Rich
This is the first of a new series of books with stories about the cases handled by Wade Davis, ex-CIA clandestine services officer, now private investigator.
Rich
June 29, 2014
Book Review-Radio Matters Interview June19, 2014
Oh to be a kid again
There are memoirs and there are autobiographies, but there are few books quite like West of Goose Island: A Chicago Story by Richard S. Post. There is not some overarching meaning to the vignettes he offers of his childhood in Chicago, not great life lesson to be learned. Nor is this a detailed recreation of his childhood. No, this author is after something else, something better, to make us, his readers, part of the experience, to take us into the world of his childhood.
The Second World War had just ended, and the author’s family had moved back to Chicago – a family business in Florida having failed. They had to live with relatives and Rich’s father had to start over. What could have been terrible times become in this talented writer’s hands the explorations of a boy trying to understand his world. There are nuns (Catholic schools), Christmas decorations, Easter feasts, summer camp, the Y, and the wonderful world of building things out of boxes. This is a feast of childhood as it once was.
While Rich’s own family is originally from Poland, this is a universal story of American first and second-generation children. If you loved your childhood, you will assuredly enjoy sharing Rich Post’s. (reviewed by Kenneth Weene – co-host)
http://www.amazon.com/West-Goose-Isla...
There are memoirs and there are autobiographies, but there are few books quite like West of Goose Island: A Chicago Story by Richard S. Post. There is not some overarching meaning to the vignettes he offers of his childhood in Chicago, not great life lesson to be learned. Nor is this a detailed recreation of his childhood. No, this author is after something else, something better, to make us, his readers, part of the experience, to take us into the world of his childhood.
The Second World War had just ended, and the author’s family had moved back to Chicago – a family business in Florida having failed. They had to live with relatives and Rich’s father had to start over. What could have been terrible times become in this talented writer’s hands the explorations of a boy trying to understand his world. There are nuns (Catholic schools), Christmas decorations, Easter feasts, summer camp, the Y, and the wonderful world of building things out of boxes. This is a feast of childhood as it once was.
While Rich’s own family is originally from Poland, this is a universal story of American first and second-generation children. If you loved your childhood, you will assuredly enjoy sharing Rich Post’s. (reviewed by Kenneth Weene – co-host)
http://www.amazon.com/West-Goose-Isla...
June 22, 2014
Newspaper Article NWITIMES.COM
Father and Son Life Lessons: New book and local signing event highlight Polish family life
http://www.nwitimes.com/lifestyles/le...
View on www.nwitimes.com
http://www.nwitimes.com/lifestyles/le...
View on www.nwitimes.com
June 10, 2014
Polonia Triangle Program-Chicago, IL
Tuesday , June 24th at 6:00 PM Rich will be giving a reading and talk about the Division, Ashland and Milwaukee Avenue neighborhood in Chicago. See the Polish Triangle Coalition.org website for details. We look forward to seeing you there! Copies of West of Goose Island-A Chicago Story will be available.
May 5, 2014
Polish American Cultural Society of Northern Indiana & Portage Public Library
Rich will be making a presentation and conducting a book signing on June 25, 2014 at 5:30 PM at the Portage Public Library, 2665 Irving St., Portage, Indiana. Call Theresa Child at 219-464-1369 or E-mail to polamnwi@yahoo.com for reservations.
We look forward to seeing you there.
We look forward to seeing you there.
April 2, 2014
Arizona Storytellers May 20, 2014 7:00 PM
Rich will be speaking at the Arizona Storytellers program at Gertrude's Restaurant at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix Arizona.
It will be an evening of personal stories about life, death and beginnings.
Join us for a stimulating evening of personal stories.
It will be an evening of personal stories about life, death and beginnings.
Join us for a stimulating evening of personal stories.
February 10, 2014
POLISH FESTIVAL March 1-2, Phoenix, AZ
I will be signing books at the Our Lady of Czestochowa Arizona Polish Festival, March 1-2. It will take place at 2828 W. Country Gables Drive, Phoenix, AZ. Over 10,000 people attend this annual festival of all things Polish! Open 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM Saturday and 10:00 to 6:00 Pm Sunday.
Please come, Join Dickie, Kasz and Gene at my booth while having some great food, drink and entertainment.!
Please come, Join Dickie, Kasz and Gene at my booth while having some great food, drink and entertainment.!
January 6, 2014
Kirkus Review
A memoir of growing up in a working-class Chicago neighborhood in the 1950s—an era the author remembers as “a good time to be a kid.”
This book represents a departure for Post (Global Brand Integrity Management, 2007, etc.), who has written 16 business textbooks.
Post’s straightforward prose never enchants, but it ably gets the job done, with each stand-alone chapter reminiscent of a grandfather’s perfectly told anecdote.
Norman Rockwell-esque nostalgia is tempered by everyday brutality: A street baseball game ends when a buddy’s arm is torn off in a hit-and-run accident, and Post watches as an injured puppy is “put down” by having its head smashed. A cast of recurring characters emerges: Uncle Stanley, a drunken vet broken by his service in World War II; Post’s father, an independent family man with little patience for religion; and Davie, a bully sent to reform school for setting a cat’s tail on fire.
Readers familiar with contemporary Chicago will also be treated to an extra, uncanny charm: a geography where place names remain the same but their characters have changed, as when Post’s sister describes North Avenue Beach as a modest spot for “people from the neighborhood”; today, it’s where the young and toned go to admire one another.
An earnest, occasionally shocking postcard from a vanished Chicago.
This book represents a departure for Post (Global Brand Integrity Management, 2007, etc.), who has written 16 business textbooks.
Post’s straightforward prose never enchants, but it ably gets the job done, with each stand-alone chapter reminiscent of a grandfather’s perfectly told anecdote.
Norman Rockwell-esque nostalgia is tempered by everyday brutality: A street baseball game ends when a buddy’s arm is torn off in a hit-and-run accident, and Post watches as an injured puppy is “put down” by having its head smashed. A cast of recurring characters emerges: Uncle Stanley, a drunken vet broken by his service in World War II; Post’s father, an independent family man with little patience for religion; and Davie, a bully sent to reform school for setting a cat’s tail on fire.
Readers familiar with contemporary Chicago will also be treated to an extra, uncanny charm: a geography where place names remain the same but their characters have changed, as when Post’s sister describes North Avenue Beach as a modest spot for “people from the neighborhood”; today, it’s where the young and toned go to admire one another.
An earnest, occasionally shocking postcard from a vanished Chicago.
December 9, 2013
West of Goose Island-a Chicago Story
Chicago book signings and reading were great. Lot's of people, questions and a great deal of interest in the stories.
I'll be back in Chicago after the holidays for more events. As soon as the schedule is fine , I'll post it.
I'll be back in Chicago after the holidays for more events. As soon as the schedule is fine , I'll post it.
November 15, 2013
Tucson Book Signing
Rich will be at the ALL ZONA BOOK FEST on Sunday, November 17th doing book signings for West of Goose Island-A Chicago Story. Please drop by and say hello if you are in the area!
Look forward to seeing you there!
Look forward to seeing you there!
