The Chicago Trilogy: A City Going Up in Flames with Frank Joseph

Frank Joseph is the award-winning author of the Chicago Trilogy, three novels, To Love Mercy, To Walk Humbly, and To Do Justice, that tell the story of a city torn apart by racial turmoil at mid century. As a white boy growing up on Chicago's South Side, Frank lived through the disruption of a racially changing neighborhood and the "white flight" that followed. Later, as an Associated Press journalist, he covered the '60s riots firsthand.In this episode, Frank shares what it was like growing up as race became an inescapable presence in his childhood, what it felt like to cover an inner-city riot as a young journalist, and why he chose fiction over memoir to tell this story. He also opens up about the Jewish and Christian threads running through his trilogy, and why he left Chicago in 1969 vowing never to return.What We Talked About:Growing up on Chicago's South Side during racial upheavalCovering the '60s riots as an AP journalistWhy he chose fiction over memoir to tell this storyThe Christian and Jewish threads throughout the trilogyWhy he left Chicago in 1969 and vowed never to returnConnect with Frank Joseph:Website: frankjoseph.comFacebook, Twitter/X, YouTube, Instagram & LinkedIn: linked on his profile