CHICAGO — During the more than 30 years that Patrick Reardon worked at the Chicago Tribune, he wrote thousands of stories about politics, crime, transportation, neighborhoods, people, and all the other joys and troubles that pepper and define our urban life.
He also wrote books, among them two poetry collections, “Daily Meditations (with Scripture) for Busy Dads” and 2020′s “The Loop: The ‘L’ Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago.”
But nothing he has ever written can match the emotional impact of his latest, a remarkable book titled “Puddin’,” which was the playful name given to him as an infant by his aunt. The book’s subtitle is intriguing and provocative: “The Autobiography of a Baby — A Memoir in Prose Poems.”
