Ben Hecht. ‘Mrs. Rodjezke’s Last Job,’ from 1001 Afternoons in Chicago. Chicago author and Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht had ‘the idea that just under the edge of the news lay life; that in this urban life dwelt the stuff of literature.’

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