The Still Life of Silas Blackwell
Prohibition began on January 16th, 1920, when the eighteenth amendment went into effect, and Silas Blackwell laughed when he heard the news. He was sitting in his Chicago backroom above a cigar shop on Roosevelt Road, nursing a tumbler of bourbon that had cost him twelve cents a gallon and tasted like copper and ambition, and he laughed because Silas understood something that the politicians in...
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