But in terms of this book, it’s about engaging in the very vocal and very excited fan base that has emerged around the characters in the @MayorEmanuel universe|Whether it’s signing books or selling T-shirts (a portion of which goes to an amazing youth writing program in Chicago), it’s been great to be able to meet the folks for whom these characters resonate|I’d been at the @MayorEmanuel Twitter feed for months, and as the storylines became more fantastical and more involved, I began to see backchannel discussion in the @ reply stream about turning the feed into a book|A day when you get to sit down and write entries about the Jessie White Tumblers, Jim’s Original Maxwell St|They follow the fictional narrative of the feed and fold in the non-fiction world that was influencing it and, as a result end up telling a nonfiction narrative of the actual mayoral campaign of Chicago, plus an extensive guide to the eccentricities of the city itself|Arriving at the idea of extensive annotations was the key to understanding how the book would work}