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gerda barker https://gerdabarker.com gerda barker Thu, 09 Feb 2023 19:33:01 +0000 https://gerdabarker.com en Front page https://gerdabarker.com/Front-page Thu, 09 Feb 2023 19:33:01 +0000 gerda barker https://gerdabarker.com/Front-page Don’t Stand In Line: A Memoirby Gerda Barker About this Work  Buy this Book                                    Direct                                    Barnes & Noble                                     Chicago Cultural Center In store copies available at Chicago Cultural Center (BUDDY store)78 East Washington St.First Floor SouthChicago, IL 60602 Photo Gallery Gerda Barker writes about her life as a child of immigrants searching for her American Dream.  This is a story of how one woman navigated a man’s world of music and art and law and kept her head above the waves—a Chicago story.  About https://gerdabarker.com/About Thu, 09 Feb 2023 19:33:01 +0000 gerda barker https://gerdabarker.com/About Gerda BarkerMemoirInquiries: hello@gerdabarker.com Once a city kid, always a city kid, because we never leave the places we love. This is a story of how one woman navigated a man’s world of music and art and law and kept her head above the waves—a Chicago story. <img width="437" height="562" width_o="437" height_o="562" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d39caa3aac535d5911f6928407ae01b9f4f32e0301f3eff8e19eb226d3943bd/EPSON002_photobooth_moo_houndstooth___crop.jpg" data-mid="168283287" border="0" data-scale="80" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/437/i/9d39caa3aac535d5911f6928407ae01b9f4f32e0301f3eff8e19eb226d3943bd/EPSON002_photobooth_moo_houndstooth___crop.jpg" /> As a twenty-something Wax Trax Records employee, the author meets Robert Plant’s ego as he attempts to polish his crown: “‘Well. You don’t have to be nervous already.’ Well. Wow. Really. Was he talking to me? I thought about this. Wow. Here I was. I had somehow managed to traverse the mean streets of the westside of Chicago, had somehow survived integrating a former all boys collegeprep high school suffocating from its own male domination, landed back on my feet after being nearly choked to death by a madman in my first apartment as a single woman living alone, and this guy in front of me wants to calm my nerves. Well, I’m nothing if not a wiseass. I paused a second, straightened up, laidthe thing he’d asked to see on the counter, looked squarely at ComandanteZeppelin, and replied, ‘And you WILL get over yourself.’  I went back about my business. ” <img width="1351" height="971" width_o="1351" height_o="971" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a99895ab21c9c3f4105bbdaeea73926093e1adc324dde4b9f4cfd9623d80cbc/EPSON001__3262022_familybeach.jpg" data-mid="167880481" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8a99895ab21c9c3f4105bbdaeea73926093e1adc324dde4b9f4cfd9623d80cbc/EPSON001__3262022_familybeach.jpg" />If you’re lucky, someone hands you a playbook and a trust fund. Welcome to America. If you’re really lucky, you write your own rules, pick your own players to keep you company. <img width="478" height="1209" width_o="478" height_o="1209" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6d13b0390df000e8e22cf7d13644e0e3e37ec14e0268f59f25481bb747f9578e/EPSON002_photobooth_moo_larry_gary__crop.jpg" data-mid="168059611" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/478/i/6d13b0390df000e8e22cf7d13644e0e3e37ec14e0268f59f25481bb747f9578e/EPSON002_photobooth_moo_larry_gary__crop.jpg" /> Photo GalleryGerda Barker is an American writer, editor, former criminal defense lawyer and wife of a rock star. As a child of Polish immigrants in inner city Chicago, she discovered the world of art and music was vital to her American dream. Wax Trax Records hired her, the criminal defense bar welcomed her, and she witnessed firsthand as Chicago became a hub and birthplace for industrial rock music. <img width="1766" height="1188" width_o="1766" height_o="1188" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/682c8d7f5076a199649ee474cb49931b6c1dddebb28ea0c05e4cb274e2d68022/EPSON017_big_black.jpg" data-mid="167880483" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/682c8d7f5076a199649ee474cb49931b6c1dddebb28ea0c05e4cb274e2d68022/EPSON017_big_black.jpg" />She currently resides in Chicago, in the Uptown neighborhood. Front Page Email: hello@gerdabarker.com Instagram