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Ghosts of Chicago by John McNally

djrmelvin's review

4.0

Don't let the title fool you. The ghosts that haunt this collection of short stories are the elements that make Chicago the great city it is. Whether it's the icons of movie criticism that appear in the short but very amusing real-person-fiction piece, or John Belushi's last thoughts, and (my favorite) a story about a young boy seeing life through the movies of WGN's "Creature Features", the spirit lives in almost every story McNally shares with us. The last story, about a writer who tells the truth about a very famous writer's workshop, lives to tell the tale, and then has to take the tale back, is funny, original, and probably all too likely.