Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hack Writing & Other Stories | 2012 | Jack Clark | Buy |
Hack Writing and Other Stories (2012) is Jack Clark’s sole non-fiction book, collecting writing that draws on his parallel careers as a journalist and a taxi driver in Chicago. The title is a deliberate double meaning: “hack” refers both to journeyman writing and to cab driving, which has been called “the hack” in American slang for over a century.
Clark has driven a taxi in Chicago for more than thirty-five years and has written for the Chicago Reader since 1975, and the non-fiction book brings those two worlds together. The material complements his crime fiction, which also draws heavily on the streetlevel Chicago perspective those careers have given him.