BY CHERYL DYER
This interview was originally posted on ChicagoNow.
Tony Bowers and I met through social media, a common interest in writing and mutual friends, but our greatest link is that we both grew up on Chicago’s infamous 79th Street. The Nine was the stomping ground of my hot-comb-candy-store-Reebok years, so when Tony Bowers’ collection of short stories, On The Nine, first debuted I not only had to read it, but I also had to meet the brother who captured the gritty landscape in a way that made me miss the people and places that grew me up.
Today, I’m interviewing Tony for the Authors Interviewing Authors series for Vital Narrative Press. In it, he talks about growing up around 79th Street, the current state of things in Chicago, his upcoming work, and even Lil' Chano from 79th.