Johnny Bollow
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Johnny Bollow

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It was the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In Chicago, Johnny talked his way backstage to interview Boris Grebenshikov, the first Russian musician to get a contract with a Western label. Sitting on the floor with an open bottle, Grebenshikov looked over his purple shaded glasses and chastised all of America for the temperature of the wine: “Why do you people always chill it?” Glasnost, Gorbachev, and God — the Russian waxed eloquent about it all. The feature came out in the last winter of the Cold War and Johnny’s writing career was born. After transitioning to copywriting for ad agencies, the pull of the true-life story lay dormant until his 9-month-old son, Sam, was diagnosed with epilepsy in 2008. Confronted with a mystery that had no answers, Johnny began chronicling a ten-year journey that resulted in his new memoir of three generations of fatherhood, "Remember, You’re the Greatest: How one special needs boy taught his father about love, God and everything else." Interlaced with his father’s stories that recall the hardship of the Great Depression, World War II combat, and Johnny’s own childhood in the Seventies, his book is eliciting comparisons to the non-fiction of Anne Lamott and Annie Dillard, and the humor of P.J. O’Rourke.
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