http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/08/28/book-reviewing-the-chicago-way/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:21:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/08/28/book-reviewing-the-chicago-way/#comment-68561 Book Blog - Likely Stories, by Keir Graff - Booklist Online » Blog Archive » The Chicago Way Revisted Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:45:38 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/08/28/book-reviewing-the-chicago-way/#comment-68561 [...] A little while ago I reviewed Adam Langer’s review of Michael Harvey’s The Chicago Way. Langer said that the book didn’t work because it didn’t have a strong sense of place; I said that maybe no sense of place is the new sense of place. (I thought the book didn’t work either, but for different reasons.) [...] […] A little while ago I reviewed Adam Langer’s review of Michael Harvey’s The Chicago Way. Langer said that the book didn’t work because it didn’t have a strong sense of place; I said that maybe no sense of place is the new sense of place. (I thought the book didn’t work either, but for different reasons.) […]

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]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/08/28/book-reviewing-the-chicago-way/#comment-66510 Pete Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:37:35 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/08/28/book-reviewing-the-chicago-way/#comment-66510 I can partly see Langer's point - I'd much rather read about an all-night diner on Archer Avenue, a dive bar in Uptown or a strip joint in Cicero - but that's not to say that the tourist traps can't be good story settings too. In fact, Navy Pier or Millennium Park could both use a grisly murder or two to take off the gloss and add some good old Chicago grit. I can partly see Langer’s point - I’d much rather read about an all-night diner on Archer Avenue, a dive bar in Uptown or a strip joint in Cicero - but that’s not to say that the tourist traps can’t be good story settings too. In fact, Navy Pier or Millennium Park could both use a grisly murder or two to take off the gloss and add some good old Chicago grit.

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