Author: Jim Bowman
Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.
In search of the perfect Chicago-area mass
Occupying Oak Park
Fine-tuners give it a break
His master’s voice
Governor to rogue trader in a few years
Curing poverty
Mayor of New York vs. Occupy Wall Street
A word for Newt . . .
David Peace novels about nasty, brutish, short
So I concluded before reading this confirmatory note:
Peaces work started out frantic and then became more intense, the literary equivalent of a migraine, except that on balance the reader didnt want it to stop.
The Red Riding novels is what I read. Comment is by Sean OBrien in Times Lit Supplement 14 August 2009 (subscriber only).
