Whale flesh and the Great Illinois Novel

The Beachwood Reporter's Steve Rhodes was asked to pick the state's all-time best novel by The Campaign for the American Reader. You can view (and agree with or dispute) his opinion by following the link from todays reporter (friday apr 14th)

http://www.beachwoodreporter.com

and while you're there, check out the latest installment of Timothy Inklebarger's "I lived in Alaska" (Head of the Humpback), which for some reason reminded me of this LTH thread