Tag: Bob Hartley

• Review: North and Central by Bob Hartley

  Review: North and Central by Bob Hartley

  Michael Janairo

  January 9, 2018

  Reading, Reviews

  1970s, American literature, Bob Hartley, Chicago, dive bars, fiction, lit, North and Central, novel, Tortoise Books, working class, Zenith

• Review: Following Tommy by Bob Hartley

  Following Tommy by Bob Hartley is a gem of a book: hard, brilliant and valuable. It tells the story of Jacky O’Day, a bookish teen who lives in a changing Irish neighborhood in 1962 Chicago with an alcoholic father and a troubled older brother, Tommy. All of them live in the devastating aftermath of the […]

  Michael Janairo

  January 4, 2018

  Reading, Reviews

  1960s, Bob Hartley, Cervena Barva Press, Chicago, crime, fiction, Following Tommy, lit, novel, Race relations, review, teen

• 2017 Year in Review in Reading

  I always feel like I’ve never read enough. These are the covers of the 30 books I completed reading in 2017, though some I may have started the year before. Some of the books are important. Some of them are fun. Some are both.

  Michael Janairo

  December 26, 2017

  Reading

  2017, 2017 Year in Review, A God in Ruins, Ann Patchett, Bob Hartley, Citizen, Claudia Rankine, Commonwealth, DJ Older, Exit West, George Saunders, Helen Garner, Kate Atkinson, Lincoln in the Bardo, Mohsin Hamid, North and Central, novels, poetry, Shadowshaper, The Spare Room, this is just to say, twitter threads, william carlos williams