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Adam Selzer—Chicago
author, historian, tour guide, ghost chaser,
and raconteur—has recently added virtual-tour
guide to his many occupations. And
in this new medium of virtual tours, he has
concluded that, unlike during his physical
tours, the places that he and his tourists
visit need not be bound by space or time.
In this Time-Travel Pub Crawl through
Bars from Chicago History, Adam may
take us to such long-lost bars as The
Wind Blew Inn (where teenage flapper
Lillian Collier shocked people so much with
her "snuggle-pupping" parties that they
barely noticed that she was serving illegal
booze), the Sauganash Hotel (the
log cabin where its pioneer owner "kept the
tavern like hell and played the fiddle like
the devil"), the Everleigh Club (the
house of ill repute with the best
reputation)... or maybe Colosimo's,
Capone's Four Deuces, Maury's Beatnik
Book Store, the Clark Theater,
the Improv, the Earl of Old Town
Folk Club, Big Jim O'Leary's,
or wherever else he can think of. Adam will
provide historical background, commentary,
and a slide show.
To prepare for some of the stops, you may
want to have materials on hand for one or
more of the following cocktails.
Menu of Cocktails
in their Time and Place
Graveyard
Grog
2 oz dark rum
2 oz hot water (or ginger
beer)
0.5 oz simple syrup
o.5 oz lime juice
two dashes Angostura bitters
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The
Algonquin
1.5 oz rye
0.75 oz pineapple juice
0.5 oz dry vermouth
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Very
Far Southside
2 oz whiskey
1 oz simple syrup
1 oz lime juice
0.5 oz yellow chartreuse
(optional)
dash of Angostura bitters
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FREE and
ONLINE
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
5:30-7:00 pm CDT
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Sign in 5:00-5:30 pm for
informal cigar and cocktail chatter.
The event will be
called to order at 5:30.
There will be a Q&A session
following the lecture. Audience
participation is invited.
The event will conclude at 7 pm.
An optional cocktail party and
discussion will continue after the
event.
Be sure to have your
cocktails and cigars at ready
hand.
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Adam Selzer's first novel was How To Get
Suspended and Influence People, a 2007
Random House novel that was included on the
Chicago Public Schools 2007 Summer Reading
List. It was also nominated for a Cybils
2007 Young Adult Fiction award, and, in
2009, made national news after attempts were
made to have it removed from an Idaho
library; it was included in the American
Library Association's Banned Books Week
packet in 2010. In 2013, his 2011 novel Sparks
(published under the name "SJ Adams")
was named a Stonewall Honor book, as well as
being placed on the ALA's "Rainbow List."
His Smart Aleck's Guide to American
History (Random House 2009) was
nominated for a YALSA award for nonfiction
by the American Library Association in 2011
and his novel for younger readers, I Put
a Spell On You: From the Files of Chrissie
Woodward, Spelling Bee Detective
(which was based on Watergate) was nominated
for a Great Lakes Book Award and
short-listed for an Edgar award nomination.
It became a notable choice for classroom
reading. A 2009 short film he co-wrote, "At
Last, Okemah!", won awards at several
festivals.
In 2009, Adam's editor at Random House asked
him to write a book based on "I Thought She
Was a Goth," a song he had written a decade
earlier. The resulting book, I Kissed a
Zombie and I Liked It was released in
January 2010. to acclaim from trade
reviewers, who described it as "smart,"
"original," "hilarious," and "a scathing
parody [of the paranormal romance genre]."
Film rights were optioned by Disney Channel
Original Movies. A follow-up (to both that
book and I Put a Spell On You)
entitled Extraordinary was released
by Delacorte in 2011, the same day as he
published Sparks with Flux under
the name SJ Adams.
In addition to his book work, Adam works as
a historian, tour guide and ghost
investigator in Chicago. In 2009, his first
adult nonfiction title with a major
publisher, Your Neighborhood Gives Me
the Creeps, told stories of his life
and work as a ghost tour guide and as a
skeptic in the ghost-hunting field.
In 2017, Skyhorse Publishing released Adam's
comprehensive biography of Chicago
multi-murderer H. H. Holmes.
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About
the
Cigar Society of Chicago
ONE OF THE OLDEST AND
greatest traditions of the city clubs of
Chicago is the discussion of intellectual,
social, legal, artistic, historical,
scientific, musical, theatrical, and
philosophical issues in the company of
educated, bright, and appropriately
provocative individuals, all under the
beneficent influence of substantial
amounts of tobacco and spirits. The
Cigar Society of Chicago
embraces this tradition and extends it
with its Informal Smokers, University
Series lectures, and Cigar
Society Dinners, in which cigars,
and from time to time pipes and
cigarettes, appear as an important
component of our version of the classical
symposium. To be included in the
Cigar Society's mailing list, write to the
secretary at
curtis.tuckey@logicophilosophicus.org
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