After Visiting Friends

"Who was Michael Hainey’s newspaper-reporter father really with on the night he dropped dead? His sons were told one thing; their father’s obit alluded to another. So Hainey, now a journalist himself, digs into his dad’s life, knowing he may not like what he finds. It’s a beautiful story, but the real reason to pick up this book is its atmosphere — juicy descriptions of journalism in the ‘60s, when editors included “slot men” and they smoked and drank and spat into the wastebaskets, cranking out editions of the local paper late into the night."

"“After Visiting Friends,” by Michael Hainey"