Tony Fitzpatrick’s works are included in collections at The Met, New York City, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, and The Art Institute of Chicago. Previous books of art and poetry include The Hard Angels, The Neighborhood, The Apostles of Humboldt Park, Bum Town, The Secret Birds, Dime Stories and The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City. As an actor, Tony’s career includes productions with Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, 16th Street, Collaboraction and other fine Chicago institutions. He has worked on thirty films and starred in two seasons of Amazon’s Patriot. Tony loves birds, dogs and the White Sox. Read More
The Sun at the End of the Road: Dispatches From an American Life
October 1, 2025
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A collection of artist Tony Fitzpatrick’s essays, poems, and original artwork.
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Tony Fitzpatrick
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“Reading and viewing Tony Fitzpatrick’s The Sun at the End of the Road, I am reminded of artists and writers I admire for the way they embody their work. Most of them are already in the swoon, under the earth or in the wind, unlike Fitzpatrick–thank or blame the angels–who has assembled yet another book in which he delves into the trenches and leaps toward the skies of a life that is, when captured under his gaze and devoted hands, a kind of survivor’s medicine. Fitzpatrick doesn’t weave; he entangles us in stories filled with the passions of magic that have made and unmade him. With an uncommon respect for the past and regard for the future, he affirms the present and honors the people and places that have created him, and made him a gifted, generous creator.”
Summary
Tony Fitzpatrick is one of Chicago’s most acclaimed artists. This book is a collection of Tony’s dispatches, haiku, poetry, collages, etchings and drawings.
Tony describes it this way in the introduction:
What follows here is some of what I remember, some of what I have learned and damn near all of what I love—birds, stories, people and dogs. It is all part of a less-than-holy life. Are there any great parables to be gleaned from these dispatches, poems and pictures? I haven’t a clue. What’s most important is all that I learned along the way: that which is for remembering, for not forgetting.