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I am going to pitch my novel, “Skyscrapers,” in LA in November. My publisher thinks the topic of corporate malfeasance might be of interest because of the success of “The Big Short” and others. My take on malfeasance is unique in that in “Skyscrapers” it is teamed with drug laundering.
I know more about corporate malfeasance than…..
I live in Chicago, which always has been a multilingual place. The first non-native settler was a black French-speaker named Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, who established a farm at the mouth of the Chicago river in 1780. His being black was unusual, but his speaking French in the area was not: French had been spoken, along with a number of Indian languages, in the area starting with the colonizing adventures of Père Louis Joliet and Père Jacques Marquette…..
