Everything Must Go!
These Days sat down with
Kevin Coval & Langston Allston
to discuss their new book Everything Must Go!
SEPT. 16TH CHICAGO RELEASE PARTY
"Award-winning poet Kevin Coval and graphic artist Langston Allston bare witness to the effects of gentrification in a Chicago neighborhood.
Everything Must Go is an illustrated collection of poems in the spirit of a graphic novel, a collaboration between poet Kevin Coval and illustrator Langston Allston. The book celebrates Chicago’s Wicker Park in the late 1990’s, Coval’s home as a young artist, the ancestral neighborhood of his forebears, and a vibrant enclave populated by colorful characters. Allston’s illustrations honor the neighborhood as it once was, before gentrification remade it. The book excavates and mourns that which has been lost in transition and serves as a template for understanding the process of displacement and reinvention currently reshaping American cities."
Everything Must Go
Life and Death of an American Neighborhood
by Kevin Coval
Illustrated by Langston Allston
OUT OCTOBER 1ST, 2019
CREDITS
Director: Mike Sager
Producers: Mike Sager, Pedro Gonzalez, Marlena Wadley, Carlos Castillo, Michael Salisbury, Patrick Welby and the These Days Team
Captured at South Facing Windows (Chicago)
