Tag: Chicago

• 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