Negative Space: Mike Royko
- Barack Obama’s creepy campaign
- What does Obama think his relationship is with his supporters?
- The Best of Mike Royko: One More Time
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If you’re looking for a grand overview of Mike Royko’s essays, this is a great place to start. It includes his very first essay from September 6, 1963, and provides some of his best works from the sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties, ending with his very last column from March 21, 1997, which was, fittingly, about both the Cubs and Sam Sianis of the Billy Goat Tavern.
- Billy Goat Tavern
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Review of that favorite of Mike Royko, Chicago’s Billy Goat Tavern.
- Bloggers and Mike Royko
- Phil Boas’ description of the importance of bloggers mirrors the influence that Mike Royko had on newspapers.
- Dr. Kookie, You’re Right!
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Mike Royko’s final collection of essays, from the second half of the eighties, highlights his bias as much as his great writing.
- For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko
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This collection of Royko columns is basically the leftovers from the previous collection, from the sixties on up, and worth getting if you’re a Royko fan.
- How to Cut Crime
- Mike Royko talks about how to cut crime—by ending stupid laws.
- Mike Royko on firearms
- Negative Space text archive of files on Mike Royko talking about Firearms
- Mike Royko: A Life in Print
- Mike Royko, according to author and fellow newsman F. Richard Ciccone, was the heir to the Mencken responsibility of satirizing the powerful and protecting the weak. I believe he came close, but Ciccone’s book doesn’t show it.
- Mike Royko’s Opinions
- Mike Royko would have been almost gonzo if he’d been more Libertarian. Certainly, he was growing that way before he died, especially with his views on drugs and modifying his stand against gun control.
- The World of Mike Royko
- Doug Moe’s “The World of Mike Royko” is not as deep as Ciccone’s “A Life in Print” tries to be, but it does what it does very well.
More Information
- Mike Royko at the Billy Goat, 1982
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“Mike Royko talks about softball, his father’s saloon, the day he played for The Strykers and his dying wish—to fall dead on home plate in this rare 1982 interview at The Billy Goat Tavern.”
