“The Holiday Spirits of Mrs. Tooze” by Mike Royko, read from his 1967 collection Up Against It.

The Holiday Spirits of Mrs. Tooze

A reading of Mike Royko’s “A New Breed of Bum”, from his 1968 collection I May Be Wrong, But I Doubt It.

A New Breed of Bum

By Mike Royko. First published on October 25, 1967, in the Chicago Daily News. Collected in Slats Grobnik and Other Friends (Dutton, 1973).

“Algren’s Golden Pen” by Mike Royko, first published in the Chicago Sun-Times on May 13, 1981. Collected in Sez Who? Sez Me (Dutton, 1982).