Does Michael Harvey share any character traits with Michael Kelly?
(We hear you both have a thing for the classics). This is a favorite question among my family members. Psychoanalyze Michael through his novel. Wonderful parlor game. I think the parallels to myself are most obviously Kelly’s interest in classical languages. I started taking Latin in the seventh grade and picked up ancient Greek during my sophomore year in high school. I continued to study both in college and earned my degree in Classical Languages. That’s a decade of Latin and Greek. Needless to say, I was going to figure out some way to work them into the Chicago way. Michael Kelly provided the opportunity. The great thing about a background in classical languages is that you are not just studying the languages themselves. You are also learning from some of the most acute observers of the human condition in the history of western civilization, to wit: Homer, Plato, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Cicero, just to name a few. Using classical references in the Chicago Way allows me to introduc
